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Documents obtained by the Associated Press and The Guardian through a Reporters Committee lawsuit include a Jan. 20, 2019 letter from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of Children's Health Defense, to Samoa's prime...
Five current and former administration officials told Reuters on Aug. 24 that Trump's frustration over what he considers a likely contributor to autism drove the Aug. 10 executive order cutting the federal childhood...
President Trump signed an executive order on August 10, 2026 establishing what the White House calls “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations.” Per the White House fact sheet issued the same day, the order...
Bloomberg reported on Aug. 6, 2026, that the administration is actively considering an executive order on vaccines and autism, possibly as soon as the following week, according to people familiar with the discussions...
The Senate voted 51-44 on Aug. 5, 2026, to confirm Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vote fell along party lines except for Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, the only...
On March 16, 2026, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston blocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s reduction of federally recommended childhood vaccinations and stayed his replacement of the entire Advisory...
Fourteen state attorneys general and the governor of Pennsylvania sued the Department of Health and Human Services in late February 2026 over changes to federal childhood immunization policy. The suit challenges the...
On January 5, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, acting on a presidential memorandum, narrowed the routine childhood immunization schedule from 17 diseases to 11. Acting CDC director Jim O'Neill...
On November 19, 2025, the CDC replaced its longstanding webpage stating that vaccines do not cause autism with new language asserting that the claim is "not evidence-based" because, it said, studies have not fully ruled...
At a two-day meeting on September 18 and 19, 2025, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to move COVID-19 vaccination for everyone six months and older to shared clinical decision-making, replacing...