Category: Vaccine Headlines
RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no
Nature In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted. US health secretary and vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr has called for the retraction of a Danish study that found no […]
Aug 27, 2025
FDA issues narrower approvals for Covid boosters, revokes emergency authorizations
STAT The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved updated Covid boosters, but removed emergency use authorizations for the vaccines, in a set of moves that could make the shots more difficult to obtain for children under 5, in particular. The moves were announced by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human […]
Aug 27, 2025
FDA approves updated COVID vaccines with restrictions on who can receive them
ABC The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for some Americans. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for use in adults aged 65 and older and for those between ages 5 and 64 with at least one underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe COVID. In a press release, the […]
Aug 27, 2025
US CDC taps vaccine skeptic to lead COVID committee
Reuters The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has chosen Retsef Levi, a member of its key vaccine panel, to lead its COVID-19 immunization workgroup, a spokesperson for the health department told Reuters on Monday. Levi had critiqued mRNA vaccines in the past, saying they can cause serious harm and death, especially among children, and called […]
Aug 27, 2025
RFK Jr. responds to vaccine guidance that goes against CDC: ‘AAP is angry’
USA Today Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has responded to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ decision to release its own vaccine recommendations that contradict federal guidance. The AAP, a professional organization of over 65,000 board-certified pediatricians, said in June that it would publish its own vaccine schedule. The move came after Kennedy Jr. announced that the COVID-19 […]
Aug 20, 2025
America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs
NYT Opinion In early 2020, when the first genetic sequence of the new coronavirus was posted online, scientists were ready. Within hours, they began designing a vaccine. Within weeks, clinical trials were underway. That unprecedented speed, which saved millions of lives, was possible only because years earlier, the United States invested in a vaccine technology […]
Aug 20, 2025
FDA may pull authorization of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for children under 5, company says
NBC News The Food and Drug Administration is considering revoking its authorization of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for healthy children under the age of 5, the drugmaker confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday. The move could leave many kids with no available shot against the virus, as jabs from Moderna and Novavax are cleared for more limited populations. While Covid typically causes mild […]
Aug 13, 2025
Kennedy’s case against mRNA vaccines collapses under his own evidence
STAT RFK Jr.’s ‘evidence’ doesn’t support ending the research — it makes the case for expanding it. When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. terminated $500 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccine research last week, claiming he had “reviewed the science,” his press release linked to a 181-page document as justification. I reviewed Kennedy’s “evidence.” […]
Aug 13, 2025
mRNA technology could hold hope for fighting cancer, but future is in doubt under RFK Jr.
CBS News If you think last week’s decision by the federal government to halt 0 million in funding for vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology will only affect COVID vaccines, think again. These types of vaccines use messenger RNA, or mRNA, to prompt the body to make proteins that induce an antibody response to protect against a pathogen. […]
Aug 13, 2025