As the founder of one of America's leading anti-vaccination organizations and now Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has predictably sought to undermine the public's confidence in vaccination. To further that end, he fired all 17 medical experts on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in June and loaded it up with fellow anti-vaxxers, which has unsurprisingly led the panel to endorse anti-vax positions.
In January, the CDC cut the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 16 to 10 by essentially adopting Denmark's schedule. This change was not based on any evidence that the six targeted vaccines were unsafe or ineffective. Furthermore, Denmark's reduced schedule is an outlier when compared to those of other developed countries.
