Overview

• HHS released a 20-page Make America Healthy Again report that directs agencies to prioritize vaccine-injury investigations, prescription drug use, and the search for autism causes.
• The finalized blueprint orders NIH to link insurance claims, electronic health records and wearable-device data into an integrated resource for large-scale studies.
• The publication follows weeks of disruption at CDC, including the firing of Director Susan Monarez and senior departures, after Kennedy withdrew COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women.
• Pushback is widening: more than 1,000 current and former HHS employees called for Kennedy’s ouster, six medical groups filed suit over the COVID guidance change, and several Republican senators criticized his approach.
• President Trump praised Kennedy’s perspective yet emphasized that many vaccines “work,” as former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb warned the effort could be used to challenge the pediatric vaccine schedule.