U.S. officials are going to reengage with a global vaccine group called Gavi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators in Washington on June 2.
The Trump administration has been withholding money from Gavi to try to force it to make reforms, including halting distribution of vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.
Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that President Donald Trump asked the State Department to let Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “to play a leading role on the Gavi decision, because of his strongly held views with regards to vaccine safety.”
The State Department is still going to take input from Kennedy and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) but the department made a decision in May that it was going to reengage with Gavi, Rubio said….