Health organizations sue RFK Jr. for vaccine policy: shots

At the end of May, Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Covid-19-vaccines removed from the list of recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women. The lawsuit claims that this step violated the federal law.

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A handful of leading medical organizations sue the Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because of the recent changes in the COVID 19 vaccine recommendations of the federal part of what they characterize as greater efforts on the lower limit of trust in vaccines in the American public.

The groups behind the complaint, Submitted on Monday The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and the American Public Health Association belong to a Federal District Court.

The lawsuit is about Kennedy’s Decision to remove Pregnant and healthy children from the Covid 19 vaccine plan at the end of May. The lawsuit claims that this is “arbitrary” and “moody” and violates the federal law that regulates how these decisions are made.

In the complaint, the court is asked to reverse the changes to the vaccine recommendations and to explain it illegally.

“Experts have been excluded in recent months, evidence has been undermined and the vaccine infrastructure of our country is now threatened,” “Dr. Dr. Susan KresslyThe President of the American Academy of Pediatrics told reporters on Monday.

“Every child’s health is at stake,” she said.

In an statement to NPR, Andrew Nixon, spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Human Services: “The secretary stands for his CDC reforms.”

The lawsuit was submitted in Massachusetts because some of the plaintiffs concerned were there, said Richard H. Hughes IV.The senior lawyer of the medical groups who sue the federal government.

For example, one of the plaintiffs who were only identified as “Jane Doe” in the complaint is a pregnant doctor that works in a hospital in Massachusetts, and says she fears that she cannot get a covid vaccine.

The 42-page catalog of complaints many of Kennedy’s actions on the vaccine policy since the takeover of leadership at HHS, including Removing the entire list of experts From a federal vaccine advisory committee and replaces them with his own decisions.

James Hodge is the director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at Arizona State University and not involved in the lawsuit. Hodge said the case ultimately depends on the allegations that Kennedy and other leaders of federal health authorities had violated the law on administrative procedures within the framework of his area of ​​responsibility, which would provide for how changes to the vaccine recommendations should be made. These changes include a process that affects the advisory committee for immunization practices (ACIP), the committee whose original members booted.

“The complaint here makes a plausible case that they have not referred to any proper procedures that refer to ACIP recommendations,” says Hodge. “Here the court has to take this case seriously.”