{"id":10174,"date":"2025-08-27T15:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10174"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:50:49","slug":"kennedys-anti-vaccine-strategy-risks-forcing-shots-off-market-manufacturers-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/27\/kennedys-anti-vaccine-strategy-risks-forcing-shots-off-market-manufacturers-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy\u2019s Anti-Vaccine Strategy Risks Forcing Shots Off Market, Manufacturers Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/trump-rfk-maha-prasad-vaccine-injury-compensation-program-autism-allergies\/\">KFF<\/a> Dining under palm trees on a patio at Mar-a-Lago\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/12\/14\/rfk-jr-trump-pharma-ceos-vaccines\/\">in December<\/a>, President-elect Donald Trump reassured chief executives at pharmaceutical giants\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/12\/05\/trump-rfk-jr-pfizer-lilly\">Eli Lilly<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ad6a2867-80e0-4f9b-b59e-8d88c17ffbaa\">Pfizer<\/a>\u00a0that anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wouldn\u2019t be a radical choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services. \u201cI think he\u2019s going to be much less radical than you would think,\u201d Trump said later that month during a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5043243-trump-rfk-jr\/\">news conference<\/a>&nbsp;at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight months have passed, and Kennedy is intensifying his attacks on the vaccine system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High on his list of targets: a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/kennedy-targets-vaccination-injury-program-160000067.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALE2hRl5n-P-L7mhvpiv3eqXC03NFqgqwzv4tvJ2ierKCAu6tI_jn2gOl34Su0REQ5HqPTdvftkzFYhNd9XTY1DqPBe4WZCX0RJlxbLTv2ExOuBt-OAjeoPUJSqTJ8jdneXp_CXUIw2MWgjxm9uIj3RiQ-T0OV6T5AeRm77p5znn\">federal vaccine compensation program<\/a>&nbsp;that settles injury claims. His strategy could bankrupt or diminish the fund, some legal scholars and public health leaders say, saddling pharmaceutical companies with liability risks and costs that would compel them to stop making vaccines altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a radical agenda,\u201d said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.usask.ca\/profiles\/bmi-affiliated\/angela-rasmussen.php\">Angela Rasmussen<\/a>, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. \u201cHe\u2019s using a bunch of different mechanisms and there really are no guardrails. People are going to catch on but it\u2019s not going to be enough to stop the waves of deaths, and deaths of children.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Dining under palm trees on a patio at Mar-a-Lago\u00a0in December, President-elect Donald Trump reassured chief executives at pharmaceutical giants\u00a0Eli Lilly\u00a0and\u00a0Pfizer\u00a0that anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wouldn\u2019t be a radical choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services. \u201cI think he\u2019s going to be much less radical than you would think,\u201d Trump [&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-10174","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\/10174","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=10174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10175,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions\/10175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}