Overview

• At a White House event Monday, President Trump urged pregnant women not to take Tylenol and backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to overhaul childhood vaccinations, drawing swift criticism from medical experts.
• Senate HELP Chair Bill Cassidy, a physician, demanded HHS release any supporting data for the Tylenol–autism assertion and signaled hearings, as Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski flagged disturbing allegations of pressure to change vaccine guidance.
• The vaccine advisory committee Kennedy repopulated postponed a proposal to delay newborn hepatitis B shots after backlash and advised using separate MMR and varicella vaccines instead of the combined MMRV for children under 4.
• A Quinnipiac poll shows 57 percent of voters are not confident in medical information cited by Kennedy, who registers 33 percent job approval and 54 percent disapproval.
• HHS defended Kennedy as committed to “gold‑standard science” even as a Wall Street Journal editorial questioned his motives by highlighting plaintiffs’ lawyers pursuing Tylenol–autism litigation.