Leaders of a think tank aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called Monday for eliminating the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule and removing vaccines from the market until they are proven “safe and effective.”
Speaking at a Washington gathering of the Make America Healthy Again movement, the president of the MAHA Institute said the current vaccine framework should be scrapped in its entirety, NOTUS reported Monday.
“The childhood vaccination schedule needs to be eliminated,” Mark Gorton, head of the RFK Jr.-aligned group, said. “All vaccines need to be removed from the market until they can be proven to be safe and effective.”
Gorton’s recommendation would represent a “huge escalation in efforts to curtail access to vaccines,” according to NOTUS. The CDC earlier revised the childhood vaccine schedule but left approved vaccines available through “shared clinical decision-making” between patients and medical providers.
Despite political concerns inside the MAGA administration over voter backlash to vaccine skepticism, leaving the White House “rattled,” the MAHA Institute gave no indication it would slow down its anti-vaccine agenda.
“Several high-ranking officials with histories of criticizing vaccines at the CDC and the FDA have left federal service in recent weeks, including Jim O’Neill, who served as acting CDC director and signed off on the January changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, and Vinay Prasad, the FDA official who reportedly blocked an mRNA vaccine from being reviewed by the agency,” NOTUS reported.
The MAHA Institute, however, signaled no hesitation. Slides shown during the event on Monday included titles such as “The Polio Fraud” and “VACCINES ARE THE GREATEST SCAM IN MEDICAL HISTORY,” the report said.