President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Health and Human Services Department. For two decades, Kennedy has repeated false and...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign event, Sept. 27, 2024 in Walker, Mich.When President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate one of the nation’s most prominent anti-vaccine movement leaders to lead the Health and Human Services Department, some social media users warned Americans to update their vaccines.
Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor and the director of the law school’s Center for Health Policy and Law, said Kennedy couldn’t ban vaccines “by fiat,” or with one order or decree.But he “could begin the process of having the FDA re-review the safety of vaccines and move to revoke or place restrictions on some vaccine approvals,” she said. “But this would take time and would undoubtedly be challenged in court.
Still, “there is no authority to ban vaccines as a group nationwide,” she said. “He would need an act of Congress for that.”“You need to meet procedural requirements and show that the removal was not arbitrary and capricious,” she said. “And the main actor on that is the FDA commissioner, not the secretary, and we do not know who that will be” or whether they’ll be “sympathetic to the idea yet.
Even without changes to official vaccine recommendations, Parmet said “informal changes” in CDC recommendations might change parents’ willingness to vaccinate their kids, influence states’ vaccination recommendations and impact some pediatricians’ practice.
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