Pharmaceutical industry front group posing as a society of medical professionals, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and its collaborators recently prevailed in federal court in efforts to thwart the MAHA Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on several key fronts.

Via Children's Health Defense, March 16, 2026 (emphasis added):

"A federal court in Boston today blocked a key government vaccine advisory committee from holding its scheduled meeting this week, and paused changes the committee made to vaccine recommendations under U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy.

In a win for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and several other medical organizations, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine policy, will not meet as planned this week.

HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told The Defender in a statement that it "looks forward to this judge's decision being overturned just like his other attempts to keep the Trump administration from governing."

ACIP had planned to meet March 18-19 to discuss and vote on recommendations related to COVID-19 vaccine injuries, long COVID and how the committee makes its recommendations. The meeting is now stayed."

The ruling — characterized by many legal analysts as transparent and absurd judicial overreach that's almost certain to be overturned on appeal — also prohibits duly appointed ACIP members from taking their seats on the board as well as staying evidence-based updates issued earlier this year to the CDC childhood immunization schedule, including no longer recommending infant vaccination for a disease spread almost exclusively via intravenous drug use and unprotected sex, hepatitis B, a move which I covered at Armageddon Prose at the time.

Continuing:

"U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy's 45-page ruling also stayed the appointment of 13 new ACIP members appointed between June 2025 and January 2026.

The ruling also stays the changes U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made in January to the CDC's recommended childhood immunization schedule. Those changes reduced the number of diseases for which children would receive recommended routine vaccinations from 17 to 11.

The AAP had sought an injunction. Instead, Murphy issued stays. There is a legal distinction between an injunction and a stay. An injunction typically prohibits a person or entity from doing something, while a stay pauses an action that is already ongoing or pending.