Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician and Republican health care leader in Congress, on Wednesday offered his harshest criticism yet of the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory panel considers the childhood vaccine schedule.
The agency’s vaccine advisory committee on Thursday plans to revisit the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose, potentially recommending children receive the shot when they’re older.
When asked on Wednesday why the panel would target that shot, Cassidy said of Kennedy’s HHS: “The best I can tell is that they have a prejudice against science. That’s the best I can tell.”
