07/07/2025

Doctors’ Groups Sue RFK, Jr. over COVID Shot Changes for Children, Pregnant Woman

The coalition is led by the American Academy of Pediatrics

A coalition of doctors' groups led by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) filed a lawsuit Monday against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arguing that his May announcement that the government would no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy pregnant people and children violated longstanding norms governing U.S. immunization policy.

The organizations say Kennedy's May 19 "secretarial directive" documenting his move to pull the vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) immunization schedule constitutes a final agency action ripe for challenge, noting that he cited no emergency or specific circumstantial changes to support the move.

"The secretarial directive is contrary to the wealth of data and peer-reviewed studies that demonstrate the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines for children and pregnant women," the plaintiffs said in the lawsuit.

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