2026年3月16日 / 美国东部时间下午5:46 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
一名联邦法官驳回了由卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy）盟友推荐的儿童疫苗接种计划的一系列变更，这对特朗普政府全面改革联邦疫苗政策的努力造成了挫折。
在周一发布的意见中，波士顿美国联邦地区法官布莱恩·墨菲（Brian Murphy）支持美国儿科学会（American Academy of Pediatrics）和其他原告，他们质疑肯尼迪和卫生与公众服务部削减儿童推荐疫苗数量的做法。
这起诉讼由医疗团体和医生联盟去年提起，旨在阻止卫生与公众服务部的大规模政策变更，称该机构的决定具有任意性和反复无常性。
肯尼迪确认数月后，解雇了免疫实践咨询委员会（Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices，ACIP）的全部17名成员。该委员会自1964年起向疾病控制与预防中心推荐疫苗接种计划。肯尼迪及其盟友挑选的几名新成员对既定的疫苗医学研究提出了质疑。
今年早些时候，卫生与公众服务部大幅缩减了儿童推荐疫苗接种计划。推荐接种的疫苗数量从17种削减至11种，包括甲型肝炎和乙型肝炎疫苗在内的几种疫苗主要推荐给高风险类别儿童。新指南遭到了健康组织的批评，他们认为这一决定可能造成混乱，并使儿童面临严重疾病的风险。
墨菲周一的裁决暂停了政府颁布新疫苗接种计划的备忘录，并暂停了13名新ACIP成员的任命以及他们的所有投票。
作为拜登任命的法官，墨菲在裁决中认定肯尼迪的举措违反了联邦法律，并批准了医疗组织寻求的禁令。这些医疗组织认为，肯尼迪及其挑选的疫苗委员会任命者绕过了基于证据的建议。
“这些决定历史上的制定方法是有章法的——一种本质上科学的方法，并且通过程序要求被编纂成法律，”他写道。”不幸的是，政府无视了这些方法，从而损害了其行动的完整性。”
法官表示，政府在今年早些时候更新疫苗接种计划时”绕过”了ACIP，无视了该委员会的”技术知识和专业知识”，并指出ACIP新成员的任命没有经过严格的筛选程序。
对于肯尼迪任命的疫苗小组新成员，”即使从最宽松的角度解读，似乎只有6人有任何有意义的疫苗相关经验，”墨菲表示。
美国儿科学会主席安德鲁·拉辛（Andrew Racine）博士在一份声明中对这一决定表示欢迎。
“这一决定实际上意味着，制定免疫建议的基于科学的流程不容轻视，这代表着将科学决策恢复到多年来保障儿童健康的联邦疫苗政策的关键一步，”拉辛说。
卫生与公众服务部发言人表示，该部门”期待本法官的决定被推翻，就像他试图阻止特朗普政府施政的其他企图一样”。
一名卫生与公众服务部官员告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，在墨菲的裁决之后，定于本周晚些时候举行的ACIP会议已被推迟。
Judge blocks parts of RFK Jr.’s vaccine agenda, including new childhood vaccine schedule
March 16, 2026 / 5:46 PM EDT / CBS News
A federal judge blocked a set of changes to the childhood vaccine schedule recommended by allies of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, dealing a setback to the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul federal vaccine policy.
In an opinion issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy of Boston sided with the American Academy of Pediatrics and other plaintiffs who challenged Kennedy and HHS’s efforts to cut the number of recommended childhood vaccines.
The lawsuit, brought last year by a coalition of medical groups and doctors, sought to block mass policy changes at HHS, arguing the agency’s decisions were arbitrary and capricious.
Months after he was confirmed, Kennedy fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, which has recommended vaccine schedules to the Centers for Disease Control since 1964. Several of the newest members, picked by Kennedy and his allies, have questioned established medical research on vaccines.
Then, earlier this year, HHS significantly scaled back the recommended childhood vaccine schedule. The number of recommended immunizations was cut from 17 to 11, with several other vaccines — including for hepatitis A and hepatitis B — recommended primarily for children in high-risk categories. The new guidance drew criticism from health groups, which argued the decision could sow confusion and leave children vulnerable to serious disease.
Murphy’s ruling on Monday halted a government memo enacting the new vaccine schedule, and halted the appointments of 13 new ACIP members and all votes taken by them.
In his ruling, Murphy, a Biden appointee, found that Kennedy’s moves violated federal law and granted an injunction sought by the medical organizations, who argued that Kennedy and his hand-picked appointees to the vaccine committee bypassed evidence-based recommendations.
“There is a method to how these decisions historically have been made—a method scientific in nature and codified into law through procedural requirements,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, the Government has disregarded those methods and thereby undermined the integrity of its actions.”
The judge said the government had “bypassed” ACIP when it updated the vaccine schedule earlier this year, disregarding the committee’s “technical knowledge and expertise,” and he wrote that the new members of ACIP were appointed without a rigorous screening process.
Of the new members to the vaccine panel appointed by Kennedy, “even under the most generous reading, only six appear to have any meaningful experience in vaccines,” Murphy said.
In a statement, Dr. Andrew Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, celebrated the decision.
“This decision effectively means that a science-based process for developing immunization recommendations is not to be trifled with and represents a critical step to restoring scientific decision-making to federal vaccine policy that has kept children healthy for years,” Racine said.
An HHS spokesman said the department “looks forward to this judge’s decision being overturned just like his other attempts to keep the Trump administration from governing.”
After Murphy’s ruling, the upcoming ACIP meeting set for later this week was postponed, an HHS official told CBS News.
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