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A Trump administration appointee delayed a CDC report showing Covid vaccines reduced hospitalizations by about 55% and emergency visits by about 50% among healthy adults in winter 2025, amid concerns over the study’s methodology and fears of political interference in vaccine science ahead of the 2026 midterms.
A new Love Story show about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette has reignited fascination with their 1990s New York romance, highlighting the real locations they frequented—Nobu Tribeca, Bubby’s, The Odeon, JFK Jr.’s 20 North Moore St. loft, Washington Square Park, Central Park, and Indochine—now popular as fan pilgrimage sites.
An NYT Magazine exposé shows that since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became head of Health and Human Services, he has targeted the CDC with firings and leadership churn, sidelined scientists in favor of political appointees, replaced vaccine experts on ACIP with allies, and even promoted unproven measles treatments during outbreaks. With the agency largely leaderless for most of the past year and a court halting some vaccine-policy changes, critics warn that public health is being steered by ideology rather than science.
ProPublica analyzes how Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s push to overhaul vaccine safety and trim the routine childhood immunization schedule could undermine trust and access, risking supply disruptions and the return of preventable diseases such as measles, rubella, and diphtheria both in the U.S. and globally, based on historical outbreaks and expert interviews.
A federal judge blocked key parts of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to reshape US vaccine policy, ruling the changes lacked proper legal process and halting Kennedy’s overhaul of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, leaving the current vaccine schedule in place and delaying the planned reshuffle.
A U.S. vaccine advisory panel paused efforts pushed by Kennedy-aligned advisers to end federal recommendations for Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, with officials saying the policy remains on the immunization schedule under shared clinical decision-making. The move appears driven by political sensitivity ahead of the midterms and concerns about the panel’s authority, as leadership changes at the FDA and broader vaccine policy debates continue to shape how Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are framed and used.
A look at how gym-themed public displays by Trump-era officials—featuring Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., and Kid Rock—are deployed as political messaging to project masculine strength and energize voters, amid policy fights and looming foreign crises, with experts noting the tactic taps cultural anxieties about male identity.
Health-minded MAHA Moms who had backed Trump via RFK Jr. are furious after Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to boost domestic glyphosate production, viewing the move as a betrayal and a threat to their cause. The rift risks undermining Trump’s support among the movement, even as Kennedy’s role remains defended by some, while environmental and pesticide critics say the MAHA alliance helped propel policies seen as health and environment-damaging.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended President Trump’s Defense Production Act order to boost domestic glyphosate production, while the Make America Healthy Again coalition that helped Trump’s 2024 win grapples with the move as midterm pressures mount; the policy argues glyphosate and elemental phosphorus are vital for agriculture and national security, even as critics warn it undermines MAHA’s pledges against the chemical.
With measles outbreaks in several states, federal officials including CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz urge Americans to get vaccinated, warning that rising skepticism could threaten the US’s measles-elimination status as cases mount in South Carolina and near the Utah–Arizona border, mostly among unvaccinated children.
Health Secretary RFK Jr. claimed the keto diet could cure schizophrenia, a statement experts say greatly overstates early research as he campaigns for real-food eating and new dietary guidelines that favor fats and proteins over carbohydrates.
Ryan Murphy’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette will debut with three episodes on February 12 on FX and Hulu, kicking off a nine‑episode run that releases weekly through March 26. The series, the first installment in Murphy’s Love Story anthology for FX, follows their high‑profile romance, with Paul Anthony Kelly as JFK Jr. and Sarah Pidgeon as Bessette, and features Naomi Watts as Jackie Kennedy Onassis among a cast that also includes Grace Gummer, Alessandro Nivola, Leila George, Sydney Lemmon, and Constance Zimmer.
A Kennedy-linked political group pledged $1 million to back Rep. Julia Letlow in a likely challenge to Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican who voted to convict Trump and chairs a key Senate committee. Trump’s endorsement has raised the prospect of a heated GOP primary, threatening Cassidy’s reelection; MAHA PAC aims to advance Kennedy’s health-policy priorities at HHS and is led by associates close to Kennedy.
Rolling Stone reports that emails show Health and Human Services officials fast-tracked a $1.6 million, no-bid grant to Danish researchers for a birth-dose hepatitis B trial in Guinea‑Bissau, timed with RFK Jr.’s policy shifts. The funding was pushed as a “funding priority” by Kennedy appointees, drawing ethical concerns over withholding a lifesaving vaccine and raising questions about political influence on research funding.
Six leading medical groups plan to sue to overturn the Kennedy-era reduction of the routine childhood vaccine schedule from 17 to 11 vaccines and to block a February vaccine-advisory meeting, arguing the changes lack scientific basis and threaten public health; the lawsuits echo ongoing disputes over vaccine policy and Covid vaccine access, while the removed vaccines remain available with provider approval and states enforce immunization requirements.