Why this group of medical professionals are taking RFK Jr. to court

A former patient recently sent me a message asking, “Did the government hide all the problems with vaccines for the last decade just to fatten up pharma’s profits and should I stop getting them-are they really necessary??” In light of the opioid crisis, which laid bare serious flaws in how government agencies and drug companies operate, the doubts she voiced are hardly surprising. What troubled me was that now that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading the Department of Health and Human Services, for the first time in the more than 15 years I’ve known her, my former patient has begun to question the benefit of vaccines.

Stories like hers are why America’s leading medical organizations took the extraordinary step Monday of suing their own government, including Kennedy and HHS.

A coalition that includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, the American Public Health Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Massachusetts Public Health Alliance and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine is challenging Kennedy’s May directive removing Covid-19 vaccination recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization schedule. Kennedy made that decision without input from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the independent expert panel that has guided such decisions for decades.

Richard Hughes, the lead lawyer for the plaintiffs, said at a news conference Monday that the groups are “asking the court to order the secretary to announce on X that those immunization recommendations are now reinstated to the CDC immunization schedules.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-why-group-medical-professionals-220614716.html