HHS REINSTATES VACCINE TASK FORCE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Aaron Siri reveals how ICAN has fought HHS since 2017, relentlessly exposing and litigating the agency’s decades-long neglect of its legal duty under the 1986 Act to ensure vaccine safety. After disbanding its safety task force in 1998—following just one report—and failing to submit even a single required biannual report to Congress, HHS is finally being forced back to the table. Now, with RFK Jr. at the helm of HHS, the task force is being revived—and ICAN is ready with decades of overdue recommendations.

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0:00.0	Huge development for ICANN actually this week.
0:04.6	Some of those fights take longer than others.
0:07.1	We've been three years of this fight in West Virginia,
0:09.4	but one of the longest fights ever.
0:10.7	In fact, the second lawsuit we ever filed was to reinstate the vaccine,
0:15.6	like why is the vaccine task force?
0:17.5	We start with a FOIA request.
0:19.0	The vaccine task force force was supposed to make
0:20.9	vaccine safer. It was written to the 1986 Vaccine Indies Compensation Act, that terrible law,
0:28.2	but in it they did have some provisions to make vaccine safer, but instead, as we proved
0:32.7	through our lawsuits, they disbanded that vaccine safety you know, safety group task force.
0:38.8	And so now Robert Kennedy Jr. has just reinstated a vaccine safety task force.
0:44.6	This is huge news.
0:46.7	One of the big developments, he's really been putting his pedal to the medal in his last two weeks.
0:51.8	HHS finally restores task force on safer childhood vaccines
0:54.7	on the back of removing the childhood COVID vaccine, which we've talked about earlier,
0:58.9	and pulling, you know, funding for, I think, $500 million worth of investment into looking
1:03.8	at, you know, new MRNA technologies. So great stuff happening there. But this one,
1:08.6	this is a big one for us. This was one of our early fights.
1:11.5	And I want to talk to our attorney, Aaron Siri, who was at the forefront of that initial fight right now.
1:18.9	Aaron, this is a huge development.
1:21.1	Talk about a long time coming.
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