Kennedy Promised Medical Freedom. New COVID-19 Vaccine Restrictions Provide the Opposite
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—along with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and CBER Director Vinay Prasad—argued against vaccine mandates, partly because they limited medical choice. This week, the FDA under their leadership approved updated COVID-19 vaccines with restrictions that do the same.
On Monday, I saw an outlandish story published in The Daily Beast. According to one source, the Trump administration could be planning to pull approved vaccines—ones that were fully vetted and subsequently approved by the FDA and have saved millions of lives—from the U.S. market. I hesitated before dropping it in our News Teams chat. Then, I did.
