On Mr. Kennedy’s watch, millions of children in recent months still received Covid shots, “the deadliest vaccine ever made,” as he has falsely described it. The manufacturers remain protected from liability claims, despite Mr. Kennedy’s blaming that system three years ago for enabling “mass murder.”
Influential vaccine skeptics are starting to depart even from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the engine of anti-vaccine policy changes this past year.
Some of Mr. Kennedy’s supporters have responded by accusing pro-vaccine factions of staging a “coup” at the health department, and are vowing to retaliate by deserting the Republican Party in this year’s midterm elections.
But Mr. Kennedy has largely stopped talking about vaccines at all: On a national tour and in recent social media videos promoting the Make America Healthy Again agenda, he scarcely mentions steps he has taken to scrap recommended childhood shots, tie autism to vaccines and call off critical research.
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Having stoked so much suspicion of the American vaccine program, the Trump administration is now struggling to persuade the anti-vaccine movement that any parts of the program should remain.
