RFK Jr. has the federal vaccine court in his sights

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, has promised not to “take away anybody’s vaccines.”

Beyond restricting who is eligible for certain shots — as he’s already done for this year’s Covid vaccines — experts say Kennedy can take steps that could drive drug companies to stop making vaccines entirely.

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In the 1980s, lawsuits fueled by the nascent anti-vaccine movement led more than a dozen manufacturers to stop producing vaccines, creating shortages, according to Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Domestic vaccine production survived only because Congress stepped in to create a no-fault alternative to the traditiona