National Public Health Groups Sue RFK Jr. Over Vaccine Policy

Jennifer Bendery
6 hrs 12 mins ago

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and other major national public health organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to defend science-based vaccine policy.

The groups are suing Kennedy over his “arbitrary and capricious” directive to change COVID vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant people. Specifically, they are charging Kennedy and HHS with intentionally misleading the public about anti-vaccine rhetoric, through actions like blocking communications from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and announcing studies to investigate non-existent links between vaccines and autism.

The lawsuit, brought by the firm Epstein, Becker & Green, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Other public health groups in the suit are American Public Health Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the Massachusetts Public Health Alliance and a pregnant woman, Jane Doe, who is unable to get the COVID vaccine.

The organizations are asking for preliminary and permanent injunctions to stop Kennedy’s cancelation of the previous, science-based COVID-19 vaccine recommendations.

You can view their lawsuit here.
https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2025/07/07/686bfc05e4b0f186b60e80da.pdf

So relieved to read about this lawsuit, it's a start.