RFK Jr. sued by pediatricians, other medical groups over Covid vaccines

Several major medical organizations are suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over removing a recommendation for pregnant women and children to get a Covid shot.

Several major medical organizations are suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human Services over actions they call a “public health emergency that demands immediate legal action and correction.”

The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

The move follows several recent high-profile anti-vaccine actions by Kennedy, including firing all members of a key vaccine panel of experts and removing a recommendation that children and pregnant women get a Covid shot.

“He’s doing everything he possibly can to undermine vaccine confidence,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, one of the organizations joining the lawsuit. “Quite frankly, we’ve had enough.”

It was Kennedy’s late May post on X negating recommendations that kids and pregnant women should get the Covid shot that served as a final straw prompting legal action, said Richard Hughes, lead lawyer for the plaintiffs.