It was, in a word, unprecedented.
As Helen Branswell, STAT’s infectious diseases correspondent, explains in this video, Monday’s move by the Department of Health and Human Services — political appointees of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — to unilaterally rewrite the list of vaccines recommended for all American children broke new ground. Until now, the list of vaccines has been derived via a lengthier and far more transparent process driven by longtime vaccine experts.
