A federal judge on Monday blocked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort to overhaul U.S. vaccine policy, including reducing the number of shots recommended for children.
U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy granted the request of the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups to stop the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from changing long-standing vaccine policy.
The blocked changes include: decreasing the number of vaccines on the childhood immunization schedule, firing the entirety of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee and changing COVID-19 vaccine recommendations.