WASHINGTON — As health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upends so much of the nation’s health care system, the once-unthinkable has often come to be accepted as the new normal.
Perhaps one of the most startling realities is this: The American Academy of Pediatrics, the nation’s leading professional organization for doctors who care for kids, and the nation’s federal health agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, are at war.
The academy, founded almost 100 years ago and representing nearly 67,000 pediatricians, has become the leader in the fight to roll back the Trump administration’s vaccine policy changes. On Friday, for instance, the academy plans to ask a federal judge to overturn Kennedy’s boldest vaccine policy reforms.
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