March 16 (UPI) -- A federal judge on Monday blocked all changes that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and a CDC vaccine committee he remade from going into effect.
Judge Brian E. Murphy ruled on a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services by several medical associations that Kennedy's hand-picked replacements on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices violated federal law, invalidating all of its recommendations to the CDC, CBS News, The Guardian and USA Today reported.
Kennedy replaced the 17-member ACIP with a smaller group of people, many of whom have questioned established medical research, to make changes to the CDC's recommendations for a host of vaccines, including those for COVID-19, hepatitis A and B and influenza.
Kennedy then, bypassing the ACIP, unilaterally reduced the number of vaccines recommended for children from 17 to 11, and for many changed them from being universally recommended for all to children to only those at high-risk for infection.
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