'Vaccines work. Period': Sanders, medical groups call for full access to inoculations

WASHINGTON — Less than a week after U.S. senators grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., about massive changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, Sen. Bernie Sanders held an event in Washington on Tuesday to underscore the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.

Joined by the heads of three national medical groups representing more than 100,000 health care professionals, the independent senator from Vermont said the country is “witnessing a full-blown war on science, on public health and on truth itself.”

“At this unprecedented moment in American history, it is important to share the facts as clearly as we can,” Sanders said. “Vaccines work. Period.”

The event came almost two weeks after the White House fired