Viewpoint: Many vaccine-suspicious conservatives and MAHA reject shots for their children by invoking ‘patient autonomy’. That’s ridiculous. Adam Gaffney | STAT | June 2, 2026

Viewpoint: Many vaccine-suspicious conservatives and MAHA reject shots for their children by invoking ‘patient autonomy’. That’s ridiculous. Adam Gaffney | STAT | June 2, 2026 https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/06/02/viewpoint-many-vaccine-suspicious-conservatives-and-maha-reject-shots-for-their-children-by-invoking-patient-autonomy-thats-ridiculous/ In January, Department of Health and Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump’s slashed the number of routinely recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11 after an HHS report emphasized “personal autonomy and self-determination” as key principles necessitating reconsideration of the childhood vaccine schedule.