Just a month into her tenure as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Erica Schwartz is missing in action. The country is heading into respiratory virus season, and public guidance on COVID-19, flu and RSV vaccines has been muddled, at best. The worst measles epidemic in more than 30 years [...]
A federal judge has frozen the nation’s vaccine advisory system just months before the fall respiratory virus season, according to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A March ruling by the U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy has left the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices unable to issue new recommendations, review newly approved vaccines, or […] The post RFK Jr. Calls for Courts to Rule on Vaccines appeared first on StoneZone .
A federal judge has frozen the nation’s vaccine advisory system just months before the fall respiratory virus season, according to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A March ruling by the U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy has left the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices unable to issue new recommendations, review newly approved vaccines, or prepare seasonal guidance. The judge halted changes made by the Trump administration, including new committee appointments and vaccine policy revisions, after advocacy groups argued the process was unlawful and the restructured panel was unbalanced. The administration appealed in April and is now asking the First Circuit Court of Appeals to move quickly. Trump administration…Open