3 days ago - Kennedy boasted about the administration’s moves to downsize the childhood vaccination schedule and reshape a key vaccine advisory board — steps that have since been halted by a judge.

March 16, 2026 - A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked federal health officials from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every child, and said U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likely violated federal procedures in revamping a key vaccine advisory committee. The decision halts an order by Kennedy — announced in January — to end broad recommendations for all children to be vaccinated against flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis and RSV...

4 weeks ago - The ruling blocked Kennedy’s 13 appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and invalidated votes the reconstituted panel had previously taken, including decisions to downgrade vaccine recommendations for hepatitis B in newborns and for COVID-19 broadly.

3 days ago - The organization laid out its policy agenda, including plans to challenge state-level immunization requirements for school attendance, to recruit younger people to the aging organization, and to combat the installation of cell phone towers for fears of 5G and 6G. Several speakers explicitly linked vaccination to autism, despite decades of research showing no connection. Meanwhile, Kennedy also focused on the role of food systems in health, and touched on efforts to study electromagnetic fields and chem trails. He praised researchers at the University of Southern Denmark, who are now under investigation by their institution, as “the deities of vaccine research”. Kennedy attempted to fund their project in Guinea-Bissau looking at mortality after hepatitis B vaccination before local authorities cancelled the project. Their prior work on vaccines has been called “a house of cards” by other researchers.

April 21, 2026 - The decision by Boston-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy froze the work of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the panel that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ‌Prevention on how vaccines should be used.

April 30, 2026 - The U.S. Department of Justice ... Murphy's March 16 ruling, which also found that a vaccine advisory panel whose members were handpicked by Kennedy was unlawfully constituted....

3 days ago - Kennedy Jr. appeared before the anti-vaccine group he founded Thursday in a speech where he made multiple claims about vaccines that medical experts say are misleading and pledged to fight for those who say they were injured by vaccines.

April 6, 2026 - In a March 16 decision, Boston-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy concluded that ⁠ACIP had been unlawfully reconstituted after Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, last year removed and replaced all 17 independent ​experts who ...

March 17, 2026 - Murphy agreed, saying the CDC lacked authority to unilaterally change the immunization schedule in January without consulting ACIP, which makes recommendations that shape U.S. vaccine practices and insurance coverage. And he said the committee itself was unlawfully constituted and no longer complied with the Federal Advisory Committee Act's requirements for balance after Kennedy last year removed and replaced all 17 independent experts who previously served on the panel.

3 days ago - In March, a federal Massachusetts judge blocked changes to the vaccine schedule, suspended the appointments of the 13 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee and stayed all votes taken by the Kennedy-nominated members.

August 3, 2026 - Even since he became the country’s top health official, he has depicted a measles vaccination as a personal choice and claimed inaccurately that the power of the inoculation is waning. The call also comes late in the day, given the rate at which measles is spreading in the US. The 37 new measles outbreaks that have already been recorded this year are putting the US in danger of losing the measles elimination status that it has held since 2000. Kennedy continues to shrug off criticism that his work as a prominent vaccine skeptic, both before and after he entered the Trump administration, has exacerbated the problem. Asked whether he took any responsibility for the measles surge, he said: “Absolutely not.” · He went on to blame the outbreaks on religious communities who eschew vaccines and on global health conditions. Any hope that Kennedy’s measles statement might indicate a change of heart were dashed in the rest of the CNN interview in which he turned combative.

April 7, 2026 - The ruling has suspended all activity of the ACIP panel. It also temporarily reverses all the changes Kennedy’s ACIP had made to federal vaccine policy, including dropping recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines and a birth dose of the Hepatitis ...

3 days ago - The judge also ruled that Kennedy’s move in June 2025 to replace the CDC’s panel of independent vaccine advisers did not follow federal legal procedures. In the March ruling, US District Judge Brian E. Murphy wrote that “of the fifteen ...

March 17, 2026 - The order issued on Monday by Massachusetts-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy also vacates previous decisions by the panel in question, and suspends, for the time being, several members due to their lack of qualifications.

March 19, 2026 - BOSTON, March 16 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday blocked key parts of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s effort to reshape U.S. vaccine policy, including a move to ​reduce the number of shots routinely recommended for children, ...

April 30, 2026 - Having determined that the matter was reviewable, Judge Murphy then determined the CDC acted arbitrarily and capriciously in following the RFK-constituted ACIP’s recommendations, circumventing the requirement that agencies offer genuine justifications that can be scrutinized by courts and the interested public, and ruling that even following presidential orders or directives will not insulate the agency or the Secretary from this requirement.

April 10, 2026 - HealthDay News — Health officials are changing the rules for who can serve on a key vaccine advisory panel after a judge ruled that many current members are unqualified. The panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, helps guide vaccine use in the US, including the childhood ...