In his latest shakeup to health policy in the United States, President Donald Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, notorious tanti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced his plan to make major changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program,

Democrats are concerned that health care insurers will stop paying for vaccines after Health Secretary RFK Jr. ousted all members of a panel tasked with giving guidance on vaccines.

Long before he became secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services under President Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was laying the groundwork for his war on vaccines. As the head of the anti-vaccine nonprofit Children’s Health Defense,

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health successes of modern medicine. From smallpox to polio to measles, vaccines have saved millions of lives, protected entire generations from disability and death, and fortified our communities against the spread of infectious disease. But this foundation of disease prevention is now under attack.

This week, Children’s Health Defense backed a lawsuit against its founder, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., alleging he “has failed” to comply with federal law by not creating a federal task force seeking the development of “safer” childhood vaccines.

Federal guidelines no longer recommend flu vaccines containing a preservative, used in a small percentage of vaccines, that has been falsely linked to autism.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced a change to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine schedule that he says reflects a new approach to public health and personal choice.