RFK Jr. Pushes AI Search of Millions of US Health Records for Vaccine Links
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Updated · The Guardian · Sep 29
RFK Jr. Pushes AI Search of Millions of US Health Records for Vaccine Links
2 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 29
Summary
Kennedy said HHS is already using AI to analyze linked US health data and wants records from doctor visits, insurance claims and lifestyle tracking made broadly searchable for government and outside researchers.
Medicaid, Medicare, FDA systems and CDC datasets would be combined to study chronic disease drivers, with Kennedy repeatedly highlighting vaccines, autism, mortality, pregnancy outcomes and aluminum adjuvants.
He said the Trump administration has created an autism registry, launched studies on diet, screen time, electromagnetic fields and vaccines, and plans to make data “research ready” for hundreds of external researchers.
Kennedy framed the effort as a fix for siloed state data and restricted Vaccine Safety Datalink access, arguing qualified researchers should not need gatekeepers to test vaccine-related hypotheses.
The plan was unveiled at a Maha Institute event led by Mark Gorton, who recently called vaccines a “nightmare”; the group has close ties to Kennedy and received $4 million through Maha-linked funding, according to prior reporting.
Can wider access to federal vaccine data improve transparency without turning complex safety research into misleading vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated comparisons?
Will linking Medicare, Medicaid, EHRs, and AI unlock chronic-disease answers—or create a new privacy crisis for millions of Americans?