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Confusion abounds over future of US vaccine advisory committee

Former ACIP members make contradictory statements following judge essentially invalidating panel and recent decisions

The Guardian - US

Federal Judge Blocks RFK Jr.'s Arbitrary Changes to Childhood Vaccine Policy

Under Kennedy's oversight, HHS has "undermined the integrity of its actions" with respect to its immunization recommendations, the court ruled.

Reason

A judge’s ruling halts momentum on RFK Jr.'s vaccine agenda

A federal judge has for now halted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s biggest vaccine moves, disrupting his push to remake U.S. immunization policy

The Independent UK

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Federal judge blocks RFK Jr’s proposed changes to childhood vaccine schedule and his remaking of advisory panel

In January, federal health officials announced the department was cutting back the number of vaccines recommended for all children

The Independent UK

Judge blocks vaccine changes recommended by RFK Jr.'s advisers

The injunction is another blow to Kennedy's efforts to overhaul federal vaccine policy.

Axios

Federal judge blocks RFK Jr’s overhaul of vaccine recommendations

Unprecedented changes to routine US immunization recommendations ‘arbitrary and capricious’, court says

The Guardian - US

Officials ‘missed 99% of data’ before ending Covid vaccine recommendation, memos reveal

US based Covid vaccine guidance for children and pregnant people on ideology instead of evidence, critics say

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US vaccine panel retreats from mRNA Covid review ahead of midterms

Advisers to RFK Jr drop the plan to end federal guidance amid Republican worries about the political impact

The Guardian - US

RFK Jr’s pick to review Covid vaccines authored misleading research, experts say

HHS calls MIT professor ‘more than qualified’ for advisory panel and calls ‘attacks’ on him ‘politically motivated’

The Guardian - US

CDC vaccine panel meeting postponed amid RFK Jr bid to reshape policy

Postponement of ACIP meeting this month comes as US pediatricians challenge committee’s legitimacy in court

The Guardian - US

FDA refuses to consider Moderna flu shot in move experts claim is part of ‘anti-vaccine agenda’

Experts say ‘they’re just coming up with reasons’ as agency says application lacked ‘adequate and well controlled’ trial

The Guardian - US

Top US medical body to review vaccine effectiveness as government ‘abdicates’ responsibility

AMA to review safety of respiratory vaccines as health agencies end recommendations based on no new data

The Guardian - US

US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations

Move is dramatic departure for advisory group under Kirk Milhoan, who says he dislikes the term ‘established science’

The Guardian - US

The facts on the vaccines the CDC no longer recommends for all kids

FactCheck.org takes a look at the six childhood vaccines that the CDC no longer recommends for all children.

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The Guardian - US

Health secretary RFK Jr appoints two vaccine skeptics to CDC advisory panel

Physicians have disputed prevailing scientific views on vaccines and use of antidepressants during pregnancy

The Conversation

RFK Jr. guts the US childhood vaccine schedule despite its decades-long safety record

The Trump administration’s overhauling of the decades-old childhood vaccination schedule, announced by federal health officials on Jan. 5, 2026, has raised alarm among public health experts and pediatricians.

The Guardian - US

‘She has no expertise’: the US medical community girds for Tracy Beth Høeg’s tenure at the FDA

The Danish American who doubted Covid shots is meant to lead drug regulation – but has focused on vaccines

The Conversation

RFK Jr. wants to scrutinize the vaccine schedule – but its safety record is already decades long

The U.S. childhood immunization schedule, the grid of colored bars pediatricians share with parents, recommends a set of vaccines given from birth through adolescence to prevent a range of serious infections. The basic structure has been in place since 1995, when federal health officials and medical organizations first issued a…

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The Guardian - US

US health officials re-examine RSV shots despite documented safety and efficacy

The FDA is reviewing RSV vaccines, which have drastically lowered infant hospitalizations, a spokesperson confirmed

The Independent UK

What are parents to do as doctors clash with Trump administration over vaccines?

The nation’s leading doctors groups are in a standoff with federal health officials over vaccines

The Guardian - US

Experts fear for US childhood vaccine schedule after hepatitis B guideline change

Pediatricians say panel’s decision will create confusion and access issues, and condemn ‘parody of public health’

International Business Times UK

RFK Jr.-Led Vaccine Advisory Panel Ends Hep B Vaccine Recommendation for Newborns

The CDC panel, led by RFK Jr. appointees, ends routine newborn hepatitis B vaccine recommendation, igniting criticism from public healthcare experts.

LiveScience

CDC panel, stuffed with vaccine skeptics, votes to end recommendation for universal newborn hepatitis B vaccination

The CDC's vaccine committee has voted to roll back a universal recommendation that newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B, which is one of public health's major success stories.

The Guardian - US

Key US panel to vote on changing infant hepatitis B vaccine recommendation

ACIP vote follows two postponements and contentious meeting and comes as RFK Jr pushes for vaccine delay

The Independent UK

Vaccine advisers hand-picked by RFK Jr seemed confused about what they were voting for ahead of potential changes to Hep B shot

“We really need to know what we’re voting on,” someone said during the meeting

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