Washington, DC - Secretary of Health nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to pull Covid-19 vaccines and deny all future approvals during the pandemic.

According to documents acquired by the New York Times, Kennedy's anti-vax nonprofit Children's Health Defense (CHD) issued a formal request to "revoke Emergency Use Authorizations for existing COVID vaccines."

The May 2021 request, which mentioned RFK by name and was signed by CHD's President General Counsel Mary Holland, also asked the FDA to "refrain from approving and licensing" future Covid-19 vaccinations.

RFK and the CHD justified their request on grounds of safety concerns and claimed with no credible evidence that Covid-19 vaccines had been responsible for "unprecedented levels of deaths and other adverse events," were not sufficiently effective, and that their labeling as "Safe, Effective and FDA approved" was misleading.

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CHD, which has made Kennedy more than $2.2 million since its founding in 2017, also requested that the FDA amend its advice on chloroquine drugs and ivermectin to demonstrate that they are "safe and effective," without any strong scientific proof.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Kennedy for the crucial position of Secretary of Health and Human Services. The move has been criticized by 15,000 doctors across the US, who have said that he's "actively dangerous."

In December 2024, Trump defended RFK's record on vaccines as "much less radical than you would think" and then went on to tout disproven theories that vaccines may be responsible for autism.