RFK Jr revives childhood vaccine task force

In another sign of increased regulatory scrutiny of vaccines in the US, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has brought back a long-defunct task force that focused on the safety of childhood immunisations.

The Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, which was set up in the mid-1980s but dissolved in 1998, was tasked with making recommendations on vaccine use and safety monitoring.

Its reinstatement had been sought by Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group formerly led by Kennedy, which sued the HHS Secretary for failing to do so on the grounds…