RFK Team’s Moves on Vaccines, Bird Flu Stoke Health Worries (1)

The latest actions by federal health authorities overseen by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccine development and evaluation are raising alarms among public health experts about the nation’s ability to handle a major health crisis like bird flu.

The Trump administration Feb. 26 canceled an upcoming Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory committee meeting to evaluate the composition of next season’s flu vaccine. US health officials are also reconsidering a Biden-era $590 million contract with Moderna Inc. for bird flu vaccines, Bloomberg News reported that same day.

“We have immediately, quite clearly, a series of decisions or lack of decisions, ...