
""The majority of what we've seen from the secretary has been a pretty clearly orchestrated strategy to sow distrust in vaccines,""
""We make our recommendations based on what's in the best interest of the health of children.""
""so that Americans may ask whether the AAP's recommendations reflect public health interest, or are, perhaps, just a pay-to-play scheme to promote commercial ambitions of AAP's Big Pharma benefactors.""
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. terminated seven grants and cut millions of dollars in funding for the American Academy of Pediatrics. Administration officials cited reasons including the AAP's use of "identity-based language," references to racial disparities and to "pregnant people." The funding move followed AAP criticism of Kennedy's decision to stop recommending the Covid vaccine for children and his replacement of the CDC's independent vaccine advisory panel with a hand-picked panel of vaccine skeptics. AAP leaders said Kennedy's actions sow distrust in vaccines, while Kennedy accused the group of undisclosed pharmaceutical ties.
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