Group Tied to RFK Jr. Denied Bid to Join Vaccine Schedule Suit

A prominent anti-vaccine advocacy group formerly tied to US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been blocked from intervening in litigation that could determine the fate of federal childhood vaccine recommendations.

Children’s Health Defense’s motion to intervene in a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other groups against the US Department of Health and Human Services was denied Friday.

The group, which lists Kennedy as its founder and former chairman, had urged the court to allow it to intervene and lodge counterclaims against the plaintiffs who are trying to unravel changes to the childhood immunization schedule made ...