State Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar issued following statement on new CDC vaccine guidelines and urgency of passing Robert F Kennedy, Sr Vaccine Access Act:
The CDC’s reckless rollback of pediatric vaccine guidelines is a betrayal of our children and the practice of medicine, driven by ideology over evidence. Science saves lives. When politics prevails over proven vaccine recommendations, people get sick and die. Coming from a family of doctors, I know these protections were built on decades of data, transparent review, and the hard-earned lessons of preventable tragedy; tearing them down invites outbreaks we fought for generations to defeat. This is not leadership—it’s a circus that replaces peer-reviewed medicine with conspiracy and chaos, putting kids in harm’s way. New York will not follow a path that allows flu, hepatitis, RSV, or meningitis to spread like wildfire to appease anti-science crusaders.
That is why l introduced the Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. Vaccine Access Act (A9077), which will promote evidence-based science and eliminate CDC guidelines from all laws and policies so that New York is always guided by the beacon of truth. Together, we will protect our children’s health, defend medically recommended care, and honor the legacy of true leaders like Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., who believed government’s job is to protect life, not gamble with it.
