Overview
- A federal judge issued an injunction blocking key vaccine policy changes, including the new childhood recommendations, with HHS signaling it will seek to overturn the ruling.
- Trust in government childhood vaccine guidance has dropped to 60% from 71% in June 2025, with the steepest declines among Democrats and additional slippage among independents.
- Seventy percent of respondents report little or no trust in health information from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while 68% say the same of surgeon general nominee Casey Means.
- Americans place far more confidence in pediatricians and the American Academy of Pediatrics, with 35% favoring the AAP’s guidance compared with 8% for the CDC.
- The Axios/Ipsos poll, conducted March 6–9 among 1,225 adults with a ±2.9-point margin of error, also finds roughly one-third identifying with Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement as concern about measles rises.