Coalition of medical expert organizations formed to counteract RFK, Jr.’s rejectionist recommendations 

Six leading medical organizations plan to ask the courts to throw out revisions to the childhood vaccination schedule ….

Mr. Kennedy and his appointees reduced the number of diseases prevented under routine childhood immunization recommendations to 11 from 17. The new schedule recommends that vaccines against six diseases — including hepatitis A and B, rotavirus and the flu — be given to most children only after consultation with a health care provider.

The medical groups say those changes are not based on scientific evidence and will be harmful to the public.

The plaintiffs include the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American College of Physicians, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Massachusetts Public Health Alliance.

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“We are doing this because it is such an obvious, egregious and unlawful act that threatens public health that we believe it warrants the court’s intervention to stop it,” [said Richard H. Hughes IV, a lawyer who teaches vaccine law at George Washington University and is leading the legal efforts].

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