Breaking: HHS Reinstates Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines in Response to Lawsuit Funded by Children’s Health Defense

HHS announced today it has reinstated the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines. The announcement…

Children's Health Defense

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced it has reinstated the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, a federal panel created by Congress to improve the safety of childhood vaccines.

The announcement comes one day before the deadline for the agency to respond to a lawsuit alleging that U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. violated federal law by failing to set up the task force when he took over as agency secretary.

The lawsuit, filed in May by attorney Ray Flores and funded by Children’s Health Defense (CHD), alleged that Kennedy was violating the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which requires the HHS secretary to form a vaccine task force promoting vaccine safety and report on its progress to Congress every two years…