The Trump administration is finalising a rule that would reimburse doctors who diagnose, treat and counsel patients suffering side effects from vaccines. Experts believe the measure is an attempt to erode trust in vaccines and to build an evidence base on their alleged risks.
They also warn that the sweeping changes advance health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s anti-vaccine agenda and his personal profit.
Kennedy’s moves on vaccine injury research and compensation
Kennedy, who leads the US Department of Health and Human Services, has announced a vaccine “injury” research center at the National Institutes of Health. He has also sought to reshape the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).
Experts point to Kennedy’s longtime activism against vaccination and to the profits he and his network have made from vaccine lawsuits.
