Childhood vaccines: RFK Jr. escalates his war

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just “put millions of American children needlessly at risk,” said Bloomberg in an editorial. Fulfilling “a
long-standing goal of his anti-vaccine supporters,” he cut the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11 last week, dropping government support for kids getting shots for Covid, flu, hepatitis A and B, RSV, and meningitis. Kennedy ignored vaccine experts and relied on the fallacy that healthy kids “can handle routine infections,” so they don’t need protection.