California Doctor Drops Covid-19 Vaccine Policy Suit Against CDC

A California doctor is dropping her lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the Trump administration changed practices with Covid-19 vaccines she’d previously argued forced her to closer her practice.

The CDC’s “reclassifying COVID-19 vaccination for healthy children to shared clinical decision-making, and removing the requirement that Medicaid pediatricians order and stock the COVID-19 vaccine” makes the battle moot, Samara Cardenas said in a Monday notice that she was dismissing her case.

The Department of Health and Human Services had made moves under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, that critics say work against Covid-19 ...