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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Thursday it is responding to Americans’ experience of health problems in the aftermath of taking vaccines, with a primary focus on “improving patient care and generating better evidence about potential vaccine-related injuries.”
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joined National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Erica Schwartz in Bethesda, Maryland this week at NIH headquarters for the opening of a clinic specifically devoted to research and the care of patients who have developed health issues following receiving vaccines.
“Vaccine injury is an invisible disease, and it is, it is purposefully invisible,” Kennedy said during the clinic’s opening. “For many years, moms and children with vaccine injuries, the parents of those children, people who suffered injuries themselves have been marginalized, vilified, demonized, and gaslighted, and they have not received the medical attention they need, and we have not done the studies that need to be done to understand who’s vulnerable to those kind of injuries.”
All the health leaders emphasized acknowledgment that Americans with vaccine injuries have been “ignored,” many with no reports of their injuries made by the doctors treating them.
Schwartz said the CDC recognizes that “the best way to protect Americans is to listen to them.”
“When they share their stories with the CDC, we listen, we investigate, we believe them, and we go where the evidence shows us,” she added. “That is our commitment to the American people. Behind every report is a person, a parent, a patient, a family looking for answers.”
“We are opening a new vaccine injury clinic dedicated to developing the science of preventing vaccine injuries, making vaccines safer, and most important of all, listening to the voices of people who have suffered vaccine injury,” Bhattacharya also said at the opening event.
Oz observed a “recurring theme” as the health leaders talked to the patients at the clinic: that “the doctors taking care of them both ignored their symptoms, but also did not report what the families, especially the parents, thought had happened to their children.”
“That cannot continue,” he asserted.
“The Trump administration wants all the mothers, all the people who believe that they’ve been injured by vaccines, understand that you’re finally being listened to,” Kennedy added.
In addition to the opening of the new NIH clinic, the department noted several other strategies it was proposing to address Americans who report health problems after vaccination:
Reimbursing physicians for reporting suspected vaccine-related injuries to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) through a new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) policy, bringing vaccine reporting in Medicare in line with typical Medicare reimbursement policies;
Requiring electronic health records to capture vaccine-related adverse events so that information can follow patients across the health care system; and
Modernizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) VAERS
In a post on Truth Social, Kennedy said that he and President Donald Trump are creating a health system that takes vaccine-injured Americans seriously, one that “follows the evidence, and uses what we learn to make vaccines safer.”
“This is how we earn back trust in our public health institutions,” the secretary said.
The announcement of the new clinic comes as numerous American doctors, researchers, and parents who backed Kennedy’s nomination as HHS secretary have pressed for recognition of the risks of vaccines, the failure of public health institutions to acknowledge those who have experienced significant health issues following vaccinations, and, specifically, the removal of mRNA vaccines from the market.
Veteran pediatrician Dr. Elizabeth Mumford also spoke at the clinic opening, stating she has heard the stories of the vaccine-injured “a thousand times.”
The Brownstone Institute provided Mumford’s address, during which she revealed her concerns about vaccine safety began in 1999 after a patient experienced a “severe and irreversible reaction” to a vaccine she had administered.
“Despite exhaustive efforts to identify another cause, I could not,” the pediatrician said. “The trajectory of my career changed. I left a secure academic position I loved and opened a solo practice dedicated to children whose medical needs were not being met.”
Having spent five years as medical director of the Autism Research Institute (ARI), Mumford said her work with families and international researchers led her to identify many medical problems in children that had been overlooked by their original healthcare professionals.
“Most pediatricians do not know about these issues,” she told her listeners. “Addressing these problems often resulted in measurable improvements in autism symptoms. Some children initially diagnosed with moderate to severe autism entered kindergarten no longer meeting criteria for autism because their medical problems were treated. Other severely affected children treated as toddlers have gone on to college without knowing they once carried an autism diagnosis.”
Still, Mumford said she is not simply focused on the issue of whether vaccines cause autism.
“Autism and complex chronic illnesses are profoundly heterogeneous,” she explained. “In my experience, antecedents, mediators, and triggers vary widely among children. Vaccines contribute to oxidative or mitochondrial stress in all children. In some kids; they amplify pre‑existing vulnerabilities. For others, early-life factors—such as C‑section birth, antibiotics, or prematurity — create antecedent conditions that interact with later vaccines and precede neurodevelopmental regression.”
Mumford said her attempt to address vaccine safety with leadership of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) – a group that receives large donations from various pharmaceutical companies – was “dismissed.”
“My clinical observations—confirmed by independent data mining—was that children who got more vaccines were more likely to develop chronic illnesses,” she said. “In my practice, under‑vaccinated children had lower rates of chronic diseases.”
Mumford proposed to NIH three “specific collaborative requests for action”:
Mumford said now is the time for NIH “to take our concerns seriously and develop strategies and policies to help this generation of children. I am at your service.”
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