Kennedy's HHS sent Congress 'junk science' to defend vaccine changes, experts say

By Jackie Fortiér for KFF Health News

A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to change U.S. policy on COVID vaccines cites scientific studies that are unpublished or under dispute and mischaracterizes others.

One health expert called the document “willful medical disinformation” about the safety of COVID vaccines for children and pregnant women.

“It is so far out of left field that...