{"id":13714,"date":"2025-09-25T20:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/how-rfk-jr-could-change-vaccine-recommendations-without-the-experts\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:46:40","slug":"how-rfk-jr-could-change-vaccine-recommendations-without-the-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/how-rfk-jr-could-change-vaccine-recommendations-without-the-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"How RFK Jr. could change vaccine recommendations \u2014 without the experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or the acting CDC director could create new recommendations for Kennedy without a vote from the panel, giving the health secretary broad authority over the childhood vaccine schedule. But there&#8217;s little precedent for such a move.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or the acting CDC director could create new recommendations for Kennedy without a vote from the panel, giving the health secretary broad authority over the childhood vaccine schedule. But there&#8217;s little precedent for such a move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}