{"id":10104,"date":"2025-08-20T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10104"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:47:10","slug":"rfk-jr-responds-to-vaccine-guidance-that-goes-against-cdc-aap-is-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/20\/rfk-jr-responds-to-vaccine-guidance-that-goes-against-cdc-aap-is-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. responds to vaccine guidance that goes against CDC: \u2018AAP is angry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/08\/20\/rfk-jr-responds-aap-covid-vaccine-guidelines\/85740271007\/\">USA Today<\/a> Health and Human Services Secretary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>&nbsp;has responded to the American Academy of Pediatrics&#8217; decision to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/08\/19\/covid-vaccine-recommendation-children-american-academy-pediatrics\/85729535007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"release its own vaccine recommendations, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release its own vaccine recommendations<\/a>&nbsp;that contradict federal guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AAP, a professional organization of over 65,000 board-certified pediatricians,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/06\/27\/covid-new-variant-nb-18-1-latest-vaccine-guidance\/84386234007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"said in June that it would publish, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in June that it would publish<\/a>&nbsp;its own vaccine schedule. The move came after Kennedy Jr. announced that the COVID-19 vaccine&nbsp;would no longer be included in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s recommended immunizations for healthy children and pregnant women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s declaration drew ire from some in the medical community as it went\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vaccines-rfk-kennedy-trump-covid-fda-novavax-b50f4d6fbcca378eb89b059bc8a91477\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"against previous expert guidance, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">against previous expert guidance<\/a>\u00a0and bypassed the normal scientific review process. Under the new guidance,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/05\/28\/trump-rfk-jr-covid-vaccine-cost-pregnancy-kids\/83895616007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"the only people, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the only people<\/a>\u00a0recommended for COVID-19 vaccines are those over 65 and individuals with existing health issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/08\/20\/rfk-jr-responds-aap-covid-vaccine-guidelines\/85740271007\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today Health and Human Services Secretary&nbsp;Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&nbsp;has responded to the American Academy of Pediatrics&#8217; decision to&nbsp;release its own vaccine recommendations&nbsp;that contradict federal guidance. The AAP, a professional organization of over 65,000 board-certified pediatricians,&nbsp;said in June that it would publish&nbsp;its own vaccine schedule. The move came after Kennedy Jr. announced that the COVID-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10105,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10104\/revisions\/10105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}