Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, flanked by doctors and health care leaders at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, signed an executive order Wednesday protecting access to all vaccines for people in Pennsylvania.
"Our health, our safety and our economy all depend on people having access to vaccines," Shapiro said.
The governor, a father of four and the son of a pediatrician, is pushing back against federal health officials and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for creating confusion and limiting access to vaccines .
"I do not want you to be guided by someone like RFK Jr., who I believe is wholly unqualified to give medical advice and who is restricting our freedoms," Shapiro said during the event.
"Changes in the federal government's approach to vacc