Organizations representing pediatricians and public health experts sued Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his decision to unilaterally change government recommendations on Covid shots for healthy children and pregnant women earlier this year.
The plaintiffs include large, influential medical bodies such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American College of Physicians, the American Public Health Association and the Society for Maternal—Fetal Medicine, challenged Kennedy’s decision on the basis that it was arbitrary and capricious and violated the legal structure Congress set up for vaccine recommendations. An ...
