The new mandate, the chair of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s panel told POLITICO, is to pay more attention to harms caused by vaccines.
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‘Efficacy will be secondary’: RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers have a new mission
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February 03, 2026
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