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Key parts of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial vaccine overhaul were blocked on Monday by a federal judge in Massachusetts.
In a 45-page ruling, Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, ruled that Kennedy’s decision to limit the number of vaccines children receive from 17 to 11, along with no longer recommending COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women, was done improperly.
Murphy said that in bypassing the independent vaccine advisory board, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), Kennedy had not followed procedure.
“There is a method to how these decisions historically have been made — a method scientific in nature and codified into law through procedural requirements,” Murphy wrote. “Unfortunately, the government has disregarded those methods and thereby undermined the integrity of its actions.”
Murphy also retroactively blocked the appointments of 13 members to ACIP after Kennedy fired their predecessors, temporarily negating the decisions made by those members. He wrote that only six of the 15 panelists could be said to have “any meaningful experience in vaccines.”
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