As health lawyers with a combined 70 years in the field — one of us served on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices while the other served as an executive of a major pharmaceutical company during the Covid pandemic — we understand the boundaries of our expertise. We wouldn’t attempt to construe vaccine science or dissuade patients from making vaccination decisions in consultation with their health care professionals. Nor would we be the right people to undertake the type of deep scientific review that lies at the heart of immunization policy development. To put it mildly, most lawyers (us included) are not public health experts, and we would never pretend we were.

This is precisely why Health and Human Services Secretary (and longtime lawyer) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recen

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