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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised not to take away vaccine access during his confirmation hearing earlier this year.

But it's not a promise he appears to be keeping.

Last week, Kennedy announced the U.S. would not renew its $1.2 billion commitment to the global vaccine agency, Gavi.

Unfortunately, and it's yield to promote universal vaccination, it has neglected the key issue

of vaccine safety. When vaccine safety issues have come before Gavi, Gavi has treated them

not as a patient health problem, but as a public relations problem.

Just as a note, we did reach out to Gavi for comment. They did not get back to us in time for

air. The U.S. is one of the global vaccine agency's largest donors, funding roughly 13% of its budget.

The new advisory committee on immunization practices also met for the first time last week

since Kennedy fired and then replaced its members. That's the committee that recommends

vaccines to Americans. The panel voted to effectively remove the ingredient thimerosol from flu shots,

even though studies show it's safe, and some worry that this is just the beginning.

The secretary is going after issues that have long-bamed and bugaboos of him and his anti-vax group,

Children's Health Defense. I don't think that's unmistakable at this point. I think that he would

probably acknowledge that, that he's taking on issues that he's championed

for the last 20 years, to restrict access to certain vaccines.

That's going to grow.

The list is growing, and it's going to start to be very tangible for people and go well

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