{"id":9249,"date":"2025-04-16T12:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2025-04-16T12:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:48:19","slug":"the-many-ways-kennedy-is-already-undermining-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/16\/the-many-ways-kennedy-is-already-undermining-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/13\/health\/kennedy-vaccines-confidence-access.html\">New York Times<\/a> The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good. During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. But in office, he and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching, sometimes subtle steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Institutes of Health&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/taggs.hhs.gov\/Content\/Data\/HHS_Grants_Terminated.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"halted funding, opens in a new window\">halted funding<\/a>&nbsp;for researchers who study vaccine hesitancy and hoped to find ways to overcome it. It also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/26\/health\/future-pandemics-vaccines-funding.html\">canceled programs<\/a>&nbsp;intended to discover new vaccines to prevent future pandemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shelved an advertising campaign for the flu shot. Mr. Kennedy has said inaccurately that the scientists who advise the C.D.C. on vaccines have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6368793267112\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\u201csevere, severe conflicts of interest\u201d, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201csevere, severe conflicts of interest\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in promoting the products and cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/13\/health\/kennedy-vaccines-confidence-access.html\">Continue reading<\/a><br><br><br><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"ABvg B EMSSvzlmEeNa\"><!-- ABvg B EMSSvzlmEeNa --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good. During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. But in office, he and the agencies he leads have [&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-9249","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\/9249","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=9249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9250,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions\/9250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}