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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 17
RFK Jr. to Keynote Children’s Health Defense Conference as HHS Pushes Immunization Overhaul
Updated
Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 17

RFK Jr. to Keynote Children’s Health Defense Conference as HHS Pushes Immunization Overhaul

3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 17

Summary

  • Thursday’s keynote will put Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group he founded and once chaired.
  • The appearance comes after Kennedy, since winning Senate confirmation as health secretary, signaled he wants to overhaul the U.S. immunization system.
  • That pairing links the nation’s top health office directly to a group long identified with anti-vaccine activism, sharpening scrutiny of Kennedy’s vaccine agenda.

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