Newly-confirmed Health and Human Services Department Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will lead a presidential commission that will assess the “prevalence of and threat” to children posed by prescription drugs and other factors.
Commission Led By HHS Secretary Kennedy Will Probe ‘Threats’ To Children, Including Medicines
President Trump's Executive Order creating the commission does not mention vaccines, which Kennedy has criticized.

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