Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that he would help spearhead a multi-state lawsuit against US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.over childhood vaccines.
The California governor wrote in a post on X that he would lead the litigation against RFK Jr. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “forillegally removing 7 childhood vaccinesfrom the federal list of universally recommended shots.”
“We’re not sitting back while the Trump Administrationthreatens kids with preventable diseases,” Newsom said.
California is helping lead a multi-state lawsuit against RFK Jr. and the CDC for illegally removing 7 childhood vaccines from the federal list of universally recommended shots.We're not sitting back while the Trump Administration threatens kids with preventable diseases.
The state of California joined with more than a dozen other states in suing the Trump administration over the change to the childhood immunization schedule for what it said puts children’s lives at risk.
“California is going back to court because the Trump administration is violating federal law and pushing a reckless, unscientific childhood vaccine schedule that puts kids’ lives at risk,”Newsom saidin a statement.
“These changes ignore decades of medical evidence and will lead to outbreaks of diseases we’ve already beaten.”
He added, “We will not stand by while politics overrides science and endangers our children. Just as we’ve done before, we’re standing up — alongside 14 other states — to defend the law, protect public health, and keep our kids safe.”
It comes following the removal last month by the RFK-led CDC of childhood vaccinations for such illnesses as hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rotavirus, influenza, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and meningococcal disease.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that the Trump administration is “undermining confidence in vaccines that will lead to lower vaccination rates and more infectious disease.”
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