RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Chaos: Hep B Reversal, Corruption Claims, and a Shady Love Affair

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According to Stat News, the most consequential development for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the last few days was the decision by the reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whose members were handpicked by him as Health and Human Services Secretary, to reverse decades of medical consensus and stop recommending that every newborn receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. Stat reports that the new guidance tells parents to consult their doctors and consider delaying or skipping the series entirely, a move experts warn will endanger infants and signals Kennedy’s intent to reopen the entire childhood vaccine schedule.

Senators Angela Alsobrooks and Ron Wyden escalated their campaign to force Kennedy from office, issuing a new statement and update to their earlier 54 page report that catalogs, day by day, what they describe as his costly, chaotic, and corrupt reign at HHS. In that document they accuse him of undermining vaccine confidence, interfering in drug markets with inflammatory comments about Tylenol and autism, stacking top public health posts with Covid vaccine skeptics, and bearing political responsibility for rising pertussis deaths among unvaccinated children. Their headline level argument: Kennedy is using the power of his office to mainstream long standing anti vaccine narratives.

On the public stage, local ABC affiliate WJLA covered a joint appearance at Reagan National Airport where Kennedy and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy rolled out a feel good “family friendly travel” campaign, promising better airport play spaces and healthier food options. It was a carefully curated split screen: policy chaos in the vaccine world, soft focus branding for busy parents at the terminal.

In the opinion world, physician and skeptic Edzard Ernst published a sharply critical essay about what he calls the “shady love affair” between Kennedy and the chiropractic profession, arguing that his alliance with alternative medicine figures helps cement his role as the political patron saint of vaccine resistance.

Speculation is swirling on social media that Kennedy will use the hepatitis B decision as a template to target other school required shots, but as of now this is projection by his critics and allies, not yet backed by a specific, verifiable policy move beyond the ACIP vote itself.

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