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of doctors, medical professionals and scientists in the United States are suing the leaders of US health agencies for limiting who can get Covid-19 vaccines and for undermining overall vaccine confidence.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcteebnd000f3b6m9918a1e6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The lawsuit, filed Monday in US District Court in Massachusetts, was brought by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, the American Public Health Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Massachusetts Public Health Association D\/B\/A the Massachusetts Public Health Alliance, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and an unnamed doctor who is pregnant and fears that she will be unable to get the Covid-19 vaccine.    <\/p>\n<div 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data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2214715851.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--show-credits&quot;: 525}\">           <\/div>\n<div class=\"image__metadata-container media__metadata-container\">\n<div class=\"image__metadata media__metadata\">\n<div class=\"image__caption attribution\">    <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; MAY 12: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks alongside President Donald Trump during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 12, 2025, in Washington, DC. During the event, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals by 30% to 80%.  (Photo by Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__credit\">Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\">        <span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">\u2018MAHA Report\u2019 calls for fighting chronic disease, but Trump and Kennedy have yanked funding<\/span>      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmctfm1na0000336n90oi7abv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cOur clients are not litigious organizations. They don\u2019t want to be in court, and certainly we do not like that we\u2019re in the position of having to sue the secretary of Health and Human Services, our nation\u2019s chief health officer. So this is a position that I don\u2019t think they want to be in, but it\u2019s necessary,\u201d Richard Hughes, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, said at a news conference Monday, calling the lawsuit \u201cunprecedented.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcteebnd000g3b6myzdg0kcn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The groups are suing US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Buzzelli, chief of staff at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who is serving as its acting director.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmctfvxe20002336nvlg45d4t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThis step is not one we take lightly,\u201d Dr. Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said at the news conference Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s not one we ever wanted to take at all, but we can no longer wait for government officials to sort this out. Pediatricians cannot stay silent as the system we rely on to support lifesaving vaccines is chiseled away, piece by piece.\u201d    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/related-content\/instances\/cmctetakx00163b6ms01fjaj6@published\" data-component-name=\"related-content\" class=\"related-content-elevate related-content--article\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n<header class=\"related-content__title related-content__title-text\" data-editable=\"content.title\">Related article<\/header>\n<section class=\"related-content__body\">\n<div class=\"related-content__image image__related-content\">\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cmce29c5s001e28p42vb9hi0k@published\" class=\"image-elevate image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"AP25176663958745.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--eq-large&quot;: 660}\" data-original-ratio=\"0.666875\" data-original-height=\"1067\" data-original-width=\"1600\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap25176663958745.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--show-credits&quot;: 525}\">           <\/div>\n<div class=\"image__metadata-container media__metadata-container\">\n<div class=\"image__metadata media__metadata\">\n<div class=\"image__caption attribution\">    <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">Dr. Cody Meissner, a pediatrician, and Dr. Vicky Pebsworth, volunteer director of research and patient safety at a group that emphasizes risks around vaccines while downplaying their benefit, spoke at this weeks&#8217; meeting of CDC&#8217;s vaccine advisers.<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__credit\">Mike Stewart\/AP<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\">        <span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">Unusual pushback, \u2018dangerous precedent\u2019: What the first meeting of Kennedy\u2019s CDC advisers reveals about the future of vaccines in America<\/span>      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcteebnd000h3b6mp7ijyipe@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            In May, Kennedy took the highly unusual step of announcing in a video on social media that the Covid-19 vaccine would no longer be recommended for pregnant people and healthy children on the CDC\u2019s immunization schedule.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcteoobb00123b6mjnyvgigl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Experts immediately warned that these changes could create new barriers to vaccines for those who want them, including confusion around who is eligible and higher costs for patients if insurance no longer covers them.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcteebnd000i3b6m4vfwynbm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Kennedy, who has a long history of anti-vaccine actions, also fired 17 members of the CDC\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and replaced them with seven new members, some of whom have raised questions about safety and efficacy of vaccines. The committee members serve as outside experts who help the CDC make informed decisions about vaccines.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcthd5g300053b6m1n03w2ht@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Last month, in the first meeting of the newly appointed committee, its chair said it would study well-established vaccines and guidelines, the childhood and adolescent immunization schedules and the vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcteebnd000j3b6m4owng0g9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The lawsuit argues that Kennedy and the Trump administration acted \u201carbitrarily and capriciously\u201d by changing the Covid-19 vaccine recommendations. The lawsuit asks for preliminary and permanent injunctions to enjoin, or legally prohibit, Kennedy\u2019s Covid vaccine recommendation changes and a declaratory judgment pronouncing the change in recommendations as unlawful.    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/related-content\/instances\/cmcth46es0014336n3glgjlhw@published\" data-component-name=\"related-content\" class=\"related-content-elevate related-content--article\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n<header class=\"related-content__title related-content__title-text\" data-editable=\"content.title\">Related article<\/header>\n<section class=\"related-content__body\">\n<div class=\"related-content__image image__related-content\">\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cmce29c5s001e28p42vb9hi0k@published\" class=\"image-elevate image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"AP25176663958745.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--eq-large&quot;: 660}\" data-original-ratio=\"0.666875\" data-original-height=\"1067\" data-original-width=\"1600\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap25176663958745.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--show-credits&quot;: 525}\">           <\/div>\n<div class=\"image__metadata-container media__metadata-container\">\n<div class=\"image__metadata media__metadata\">\n<div class=\"image__caption attribution\">    <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">Dr. Cody Meissner, a pediatrician, and Dr. Vicky Pebsworth, volunteer director of research and patient safety at a group that emphasizes risks around vaccines while downplaying their benefit, spoke at this weeks&#8217; meeting of CDC&#8217;s vaccine advisers.<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__credit\">Mike Stewart\/AP<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\">        <span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">Unusual pushback, \u2018dangerous precedent\u2019: What the first meeting of Kennedy\u2019s CDC advisers reveals about the future of vaccines in America<\/span>      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmctgm622000q336n966tnebd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Dr. Sindhu Srinivas, president of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, said the decision about the Covid vaccine is dangerous for her patients. Pregnancy is on the CDC\u2019s list of conditions that can raise a person\u2019s risk of severe illness.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcth1j58000x336n1g4mlmbj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThe federal directive has no evidentiary basis in obstetrics or infectious disease,\u201d Srinivas said. \u201cMaternal immunization is really the best way to reduce maternal, fetal and infant complications, particularly Covid-19 but also from other illnesses, other infections.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcteebnd000k3b6mlaake2k1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Kressly, of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said that the immunization system has been a cornerstone of US public health but that she and several members of her association have been alarmed by recent actions by HHS to alter the routine childhood immunization schedule. She said the moves<strong> <\/strong>are \u201cjeopardizing its success\u201d and will make children and communities more vulnerable to infectious disease.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcthfcnm000a3b6mdm842oas@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Kressly cited the high number of measles cases this year as an example: There have been more measles cases in the US in 2025 than in any other year since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcthnlly000c3b6mabisxtaw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Anti-vaccine actions are not just rhetoric or politics, she said, they put people at risk.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmctgwel3000s336n0vsx1tbe@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cEvery child\u2019s health is at stake,\u201d Kressly said.    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/related-content\/instances\/cmctesuiu00143b6m1sx6nar6@published\" data-component-name=\"related-content\" class=\"related-content-elevate related-content--article\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n<header class=\"related-content__title related-content__title-text\" data-editable=\"content.title\">Related article<\/header>\n<section class=\"related-content__body\">\n<div class=\"related-content__image image__related-content\">\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cmbl68cw8009e27ns2dt51xdh@published\" class=\"image-elevate image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"GettyImages-2210910476.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--eq-large&quot;: 660}\" data-original-ratio=\"0.666875\" data-original-height=\"1067\" data-original-width=\"1600\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2210910476.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--show-credits&quot;: 525}\">           <\/div>\n<div class=\"image__metadata-container media__metadata-container\">\n<div class=\"image__metadata media__metadata\">\n<div class=\"image__caption attribution\">\n<div class=\"image__title\">US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Covid-19 vaccine is no longer recommended for pregnant women and healthy children. \u2014<\/div>\n<p>   <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">RFK<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__credit\">Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images\/File<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\">        <span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">New federal Covid-19 vaccine policies are already keeping some people from getting shots<\/span>      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmctfwxm50005336nn9zsb9a7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Several doctors whose organizations are plaintiffs in the lawsuit said Kennedy\u2019s actions have led people to question the safety and effectiveness of all vaccines, not just the Covid-19 vaccine. Dr. Jason Goldman, president of the American College of Physicians, said some of his patients have been \u201cconfused and scared.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmctg1fgh0008336nziwlyzka@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThis doesn\u2019t just impact one vaccine. It is impacting the entire adult and pediatric vaccine schedule and putting our patients at risk,\u201d he said at Monday\u2019s news conference.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmctg41jb000b336ndyu7qfzm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Goldman added that changes to CDC guidance about the Covid-19 vaccine may mean his patients\u2019 insurance will not cover the cost of the shots, and without coverage, those vaccines would be too expensive, limiting access to good protection.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmctgh348000h336ndd6kthuq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Dr. Tina Tan, president of the Infectious Disease Society of America, said that some people may argue that Covid-19 is not a serious disease for children but that \u201cthose of us who have dedicated our lives to caring for children know that is not the case.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmctgkj8y000n336ni2s288cz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cSome people say that only a small number of children die from Covid, but the only acceptable number of dead children from Covid is zero, especially when we have the means to prevent their deaths and the vaccines that we have available are safe and very effective and can protect these children from getting severe disease and from dying,\u201d Tan said at the news conference. \u201cIt is really unconscionable to take away a parent\u2019s ability and choice to protect their children through vaccination.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmctsdgzk00003b6miyula6yw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            <strong><em>Correction: <\/em><\/strong><em>A lawyer for the plaintiffs mischaracterized the anonymous doctor\u2019s situation; this story has been updated to reflect the change.<\/em>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccines Respiratory viruses Children&#8217;s health Federal agencies See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! 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