Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday plans to overhaul the nation’s vaccine injury reporting system in a move to increase medical accountability. Speaking at a “Make America Healthy Again” event in Indiana, Kennedy laid out his vision for a modernized, automated system that would dramatically improve how adverse events related to vaccines are tracked and analyzed.
“It’s outrageous that we don’t have a surveillance system that functions,” Kennedy said, highlighting the failure of the current Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) to capture the full picture. His goal? Not just to improve reporting, but to get to the truth about rising chronic health conditions like autism and diabetes.
Kennedy cited a 2010 government-backed analysis that suggested fewer than 1% of vaccine-related injuries are ever reported. The existing manual system, he argues, is outdated and unreliable. “We’re going to roll out what they shelved years ago—an automated, real-time data system that flags potential issues to physicians and researchers across the globe.”
Critics have accused Kennedy of overstating the risks of vaccines, but his supporters see this as long-overdue reform. His plan includes expanding datasets to look at potential interactions with other environmental factors like mold, electromagnetic fields, and processed food—all of which surged in the late 1980s.
Kennedy also announced the formation of a new CDC division focused solely on vaccine injury surveillance, promising to work with international partners to create global data-sharing systems.
“This isn’t about fear—it’s about facts,” Kennedy said. “Americans deserve honest data and full transparency. And we’re going to deliver that.”
His message? It’s time to stop trusting systems that protect pharmaceutical companies—and start building ones that protect the people.
