Politico October 29, 2025
Lauren Gardner, Sophie Gardner

In an interview with POLITICO, Martin Kulldorff said the health secretary has asked him to impartially follow the science.

Martin Kulldorff wants to rebuild Americans’ declining trust in vaccines even if that means limiting access to some shots in the process.

Kulldorff, who leads the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel, spoke exclusively to POLITICO about how he sees his role and the task Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime skeptic of vaccine safety, has given him.

That is, he said, to scrutinize the vaccine guidance the government gives to Americans with a skeptical eye.

Kennedy “has said that he is not anti-vax,” Kulldorff said. “He has many supporters, so I think it’s much better...

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