Politico August 19, 2025
The American Academy of Pediatrics had earlier urged parents to get young children vaccinated against Covid — pushing back against the health secretary’s stance.
The gloves are off in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s feud with American doctors.
Hours after the American Academy of Pediatrics, the professional society for doctors who care for children, issued Covid-19 vaccine guidance contradicting that of the health secretary, Kennedy accused the group of engaging in a “pay-to-play scheme to promote commercial ambitions of AAP’s Big Pharma benefactors” in a post on social media platform X.
Kennedy cited donations from Covid mRNA vaccine drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna, among other pharmaceutical companies, to the pediatricians’ Friends of Children Fund, which backs projects...
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