Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced that the U.S. is pulling funding from the vaccine alliance Gavi. The health secretary said that the organization, backed by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, and the World Bank, needs to change its response to vaccine safety issues. "There's much that I admire about Gavi, especially its commitment to making medicine affordable to all the world's people. Gavi has done that part of its job very well," Secretary Kennedy stated. "Unfortunately, in its zeal to promote universal vaccination, it has neglected the key issue of vaccine safety." The health secretary continued, "I'll tell you how to start taking vaccine safety seriously: Consider the best science available, even when the science contradicts established paradigms. Until that happens, the United States won't contribute more to Gavi." He cited instances where the mortality rate of the vaccinated under Gavi's programs were higher than the unvaccinated and called on the alliance "to justify the $8 billion America has provided in funding since 2001" by considering "the best science available, even when that science contradicts established paradigms." | 
