India, July 3 -- A coalition of 17 leading public health and civil rights organizations, led by the Health Equity Collaborative, sent a letter to leaders in the House and Senate calling on Congress to investigate and respond to the recent vaccine policy decisions by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The letter emphasizes his unprecedented removal and replacement of the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an advisory committee that issues official government recommendations on on the safety, efficacy, and clinical need for vaccines to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It also highlights how this decision erodes science-based vaccine recommendations, increases misinformation, and jeop...