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HHS to expand vaccine-safety monitoring and research, official says
Summary
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the department will expand safety monitoring, compare vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts, study adjuvants and timing, and pursue dozens of studies with large federal datasets; he said a task force created in 1986 has been reinstated.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., introduced at the briefing as secretary of health and human services, told the press HHS will expand vaccine-safety research, preserve access to vaccines, and strengthen monitoring systems. "We will preserve access to vaccines, strengthen safety monitoring, expand research, give doctors and parents better information, and restore informed consent and parental choice to their rightful place in American medicine," he said.
Kennedy described using large federal datasets — including the CDC's Vaccine Safety Datalink and FDA systems — to compare health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children, and said NIH, FDA, CDC and other agencies will review adjuvants and timing. He said the administration reinstated a task force on safer childhood vaccines established by Congress in 1986 and set expedited deadlines for deliverables.
