RFK Jr. Can Push Measles Herd Immunity in Theory, DOJ Says - Bloomberg Law
A Trump administration lawyer said health secretary Robert F. Kennedy has “broad, unreviewable authority” to alter vaccine policy and could, hypothetically, recommend people get measles to achieve herd immunity if he believed that best served public health.
A Trump administration lawyer said health secretary Robert F. Kennedy has “broad, unreviewable authority” to alter vaccine policy and could, hypothetically, recommend people get measles to achieve herd immunity if he believed that best served public health.
The example, prompted by a question from US District Judge Brian E. Murphy of Massachusetts, came amid medical and public health groups’ challenge to a second tranche of Kennedy’s vaccine policy shifts, including downgraded Covid-19 immunization recommendations for some, the proposal to remove a birth dose for the hepatitis B vaccine, and the reconstitution of a critical policy panel.
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