Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to remove recommendations that healthy children and pregnant women receive COVID-19 vaccines was illegal, a new lawsuit alleges.
The suit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts on July 7, said Kennedy’s directive is arbitrary and capricious, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other doctors’ groups.
Kennedy announced on May 27 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would stop recommending COVID-19 vaccination for healthy children and pregnant women. The CDC is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which Kennedy leads.
Five days earlier, the suit notes, Kennedy said in his testimony to Congress, “My opinions about vaccines are irrelevant,” and “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.”…