BOSTON: A federal judge on Monday blocked key parts of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort to reshape US vaccine policy, including a move to reduce the number of shots routinely recommended for children.
US District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston sided with the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups, which said health regulators had acted unlawfully to carry out Kennedy’s agenda of upending immunisation policies and warned the changes will reduce vaccination rates and harm public health.
Vaccine makers have grown increasingly wary of US vaccine policy, including the makers of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines. Companies that make other shots on the US childhood vaccine schedule include Merck MRK.N, Sanofi SASY.PA and GSK GSK.L.
