Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first year in the Trump administration racked up win after win for the longtime anti-vaccine crusader’s allies.
Activists in the “medical freedom” movement were thrilled to see Kennedy fire all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, hire vaccine critics among the replacements, and dramatically downsize the childhood immunization schedule – to the horror of pediatricians across the country.
But now, with a single temporary ruling Monday from a federal judge in Boston, each of those actions has been abruptly halted.
