Lots of news today, but a quick aside to say Happy Pride as June winds down!
A new era of vaccine policy has arrived
The meeting began with an airing of four-year-old grievances and closed with a move to cement a decades-old, long-dismissed anti-vaccine talking point into U.S. national policy. So went the first meeting of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a hearing unlike any other in the nerdy, august body’s 64-year-history.
