WASHINGTON \u2014 Children\u2019s Health Defense, the vaccine-skeptical organization once led by now-health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is playing the long game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The group has more power in Washington than the group\u2019s CEO, Mary Holland, imagined possible in her lifetime. In an interview with STAT, she said CHD plans to parlay that influence into permanent policy changes \u2014 upending the childhood vaccination schedule, reformulating the shots, and abolishing mandates to get them, among a host of goals \u2014\u00a0 that will outlast Kennedy\u2019s tenure at the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe fully expect at some point there will be people in power who do not support our agenda,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we want to do as much as we can in this arguably auspicious time to create the kind of public support that will see us through.\u201d<\/p>\n
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