Professional medical societies, pharmacists, state health officials and vaccine manufacturers, as well as a new advocacy group, are mobilizing behind the scenes to preserve access for vaccines as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. works to upend the nation’s decades-old vaccine system, according to public health experts.
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But the extraordinary effort to create parallel systems of recommending, and perhaps even providing, vaccines faces major challenges, and some of the more ambitious goals have yet to be ironed out.
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The Vaccine Integrity Project, a recent initiative based at the University of Minnesota, is leading many of the discussions to explore alternatives with vaccine manufacturers, health insurers and medical associations. The project is consulting with, among others, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians, the American Pharmacists Association, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, as well as insurance providers.
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“Vaccine misinformation has increased in recent years, and that’s a concern to me,” said Asa Hutchinson, the former Republican governor of Arkansas and a member of the Vaccine Integrity Project’s steering committee.
