RFK panel votes to downgrade jab advice which doctors say will have ‘real-time impacts on American children’

Decision by US advisory committee on immunisation criticised as ‘strategy to scare parents’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine panel voted to maintain current guidance on a vaccine that has been recommended for children for decades.

Committee cited inconsistency in proposed policy changes and it is not clear how they will proceed on the issue

The group also voted to emphasize that the Covid vaccine is beneficial for those at high risk of severe illness from the disease.

RFK panel votes to downgrade jab advice which doctors say will have ‘real-time impacts on American children’

Break from past recommendations comes amid warning of scientific backslide under leadership of HHS secretary RFK Jr.

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t specifically recommend vaccination but said people could make individual decisions.

RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers declined to recommend COVID-19 shots, but