Timeline Additions
Coverage: August 14 – September 1, 2025
August 14, 2025 – Judge orders HHS to stop sharing Medicaid data with deportation officials.
August 15, 2025 – HHS revives childhood vaccine safety task force.
August 18, 2025 – HHS halts 22 mRNA vaccine development projects.
August 24, 2025 – RFK Jr. cancels promising cancer vaccine research.
August 25, 2025 – CDC appoints anti-vaccine activist Retsef Levi to lead COVID workgroup.
August 25, 2025 – ACOG and AAP diverge from CDC on COVID-19 vaccine guidance.
August 25, 2025 – Texas officials report CDC unresponsive during measles outbreak.
August 27, 2025 – RFK Jr. claims he can “see” mitochondrial challenges in children’s faces; experts refute.
August 28, 2025 – RFK Jr. suggests SSRIs explain school shootings.
August 28, 2025 – RFK Jr. falsely claims CDC lists abortion as a top ten medical advance.
August 29, 2025 – CDC reports kindergarten vaccine exemptions rise, coverage drops to 92% (DTaP) and 93% (MMR).
September 1, 2025 – FDA official Vinay Prasad demands removal of YouTube videos in which he criticized vaccines. YouTube deleted the entire channel citing copyright infringement.
You can see the updated tracker here: HHS Tracker.
Citation
@article{infoepi_lab2025,
author = {{InfoEpi Lab}},
publisher = {Information Epidemiology Lab},
title = {HHS {Tracker} {Update} {Notes}},
journal = {InfoEpi Lab},
date = {2025-09-01},
url = {https://infoepi.org/posts/2025/09/01-hhs-tracker-update.html},
langid = {en}
}