Now the New York Post has weighed in, lashing out with a very pointed headline that states, \u201cRFK Jr.\u2019s lunatic war on vaccines puts kids at risk.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Post\u2019s editorial board said<\/a> in Sunday\u2019s article that policy shifts around vaccines will scare parents and raise preventable illness, with deadly consequences.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The paper focused its fire on Kennedy, 71, after federal vaccine advisers voted 8\u20133 on Dec. 5 to recommend \u201cshared clinical decision-making\u201d for the Hepatitis B shot for babies born to mothers who test negative\u2014meaning the birth dose is no longer universally recommended, and that any first dose should be \u201cno earlier than two months of age\u201d if parents opt out at birth.<\/p>\n The Post asks, \u201cBut… why? and argues that universal newborn Hep B vaccination has \u201da stellar safety record\u201d and is a \u201clow-risk\u201d way to prevent a virus that can become chronic when contracted in infancy. <\/p>\n The CDC\u2019s own clinical guidance<\/a> says infants infected with Hepatitis B have about a 90 percent chance of developing chronic infection.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s zero reason for the ACIP to change recommendations, except to further RFK\u2019s obsessive agenda to reduce the number of vaccines for tots\u2014based on his feverish belief that the jabs are dangerous<\/a>,\u201d the paper wrote (all italics are the Post\u2019s own), adding: \u201cThe White House is, at the very least, giving him a long leash to carry out his anti-vax campaign.\u201d <\/p>\n The editorial also pointed to the White House\u2019s December 5 memorandum<\/a> directing the Health and Human Services Department and CDC leadership to review U.S. \u201ccore childhood\u201d vaccine recommendations against \u201cpeer, developed countries,\u201d with an instruction to align the U.S. schedule if officials deem other practices \u201csuperior.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s all part and parcel of RFK Jr.\u2019s dangerous and plain dumb war on vaccines,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n Kennedy\u2019s critics have separately focused on a November 19 update to the CDC\u2019s \u201cAutism and Vaccines\u201d page<\/a>, which now states that the claim \u201cvaccines do not cause autism\u201d is \u201cnot an evidence-based claim\u201d because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. <\/p>\n![\"Donald](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CEGJ4RD3PNDKJPWXL6ONB2QUPQ.jpg\")
Trump (C) and Rupert Murdoch have been long-term business and political bedfellows. But Murdoch’s papers are increasingly criticizing the Trump administration. Anna Moneymaker\/Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images <\/p>\n![\"U.S.](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/D3NGTVLT4RCJ3KWGW5ZO353BZU.jpg\")
Even one of Trump’s most loyal newspapers has had enough of RFK Jr.’s unpopular approach to vaccines. Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images <\/p>\n![\"WASHINGTON,](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MZOGARA7FRHKLEY3BHO2OCZFYI.jpg\")
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump (L), made a contriversial announcement on \u201csignificant medical and scientific findings for America\u2019s children\u201d in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on September 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Federal health officials suggested a link between the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy as a risk for autism, although many health agencies have noted inconclusive results in the research. Andrew Harnik\/Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images <\/p>\n