WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, has criticized laws that provide companies that make vaccines with protections from lawsuits. If he takes office, he has broad power to strip those protections, experts told STAT.
Most routine vaccines have had protections from lawsuits for nearly 40 years, and vaccines developed to address emergencies have enjoyed protections for 20. For the most part, the programs have been uncontroversial.
But that all ended during the Covid-19 pandemic, when programs meant to compensate people with severe side effects from vaccines were stretched, distrust in science rose, and routine policy decisions related to vaccines became highly politicized.
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