# American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical societies sue HHS and Kennedy over vaccine recommendation changes

Date: 2025

On July 7, 2025, the [American Academy of Pediatrics](/organizations/ph-american-academy-of-pediatrics), the American College of Physicians, the American Public Health Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, a state public-health alliance and an individual pregnant physician filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts (American Academy of Pediatrics v. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.). The complaint alleged that the late-May 2025 removal of COVID-19 vaccines from the recommended schedule for healthy children and pregnant women was 'arbitrary' and 'capricious' and violated federal law governing how such decisions are made, and asked the court to reverse the changes. AAP President Dr. Susan Kressly said experts had been 'sidelined' and that the nation's vaccine infrastructure was 'threatened.'

## Drivers

- Vaccine hesitancy and erosion of public trust in immunization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/ph-vaccine-hesitancy

## Sources

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## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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