We recap last week's multiple RFK Jr testimonies, some potentially good news at the federal level, and state vaccine policy news.
The secretary tried to defend his environmentalist bona fides by citing HHS’s withholding of funds from Gavi because some vaccines it supports use thimerosal, a preservative containing ethylmercury—not the neurotoxic methylmercury.
The HHS secretary completes his second day of testimony before a House committee.
With today's nomination of a new CDC director, we also have a new ACIP charter and states going their own way on vaccine policy.
RFK Jr. has said the MMR vaccine contains "millions of particles that were created from aborted fetal tissue, millions of DNA fragments." It does not.
Half of Republicans and 40% of swing district voters say they support many tenets of Make America Healthy Again but do not identify with the movement.
Age was a major factor in how respondents thought about the personal duty of vaccination as a tool to prevent others from illness.
The researchers initiated the study after President Trump’s September 2025 remarks discouraging pregnant women from using acetaminophen because of a purported link to autism.
While we were distracted by a recent success, vaccine-injury lawyer Aaron Siri submitted a petition demanding that hundreds of conditions be added to the Vaccine Injury Table.
The IDSA is urging that the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices maintains scientific integrity.
