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How will RFK Jr.‘s new vaccine policies impact Illinoisans?

 
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in May that COVID-19 vaccinations are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women. Here, nurse Christine Allegretti administers a COVID-19 vaccination to 13-year-old Ariana Riley at a clinic in Chicago in 2021.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is changing the country's vaccine policies- from childhood vaccinations to COVID immunizations. Many experts are raising concerns about what that could mean for public health. Illinois' doctors weigh in.


GUESTS
 
Dr. Vidya Sundareshan 

Professor & Chief of Infectious Diseases, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Dr. Jennifer Seo 
Pediatric Medicine Medical Advisor, Illinois Department of Public Health

Dr. Tina Tan 
Attending Physician in Infectious Diseases, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
President, Infectious Diseases Society of America

 

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