“You’re Finally Being Listened To”: RFK Jr. Opens Historic Vaccine Injury Clinic at NIH Under President Trump

BETHESDA, Md. — Families who were ignored for years finally have a front door. This week at NIH headquarters, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cut the ribbon on a new clinic dedicated to studying and caring for patients who report health problems after vaccination. He was joined by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz. “Today is a historic day,” Kennedy said.

The clinic has three jobs, in Kennedy’s words: “developing the science of preventing vaccine injuries, making vaccines safer, and most important of all, listening to the voices of people who have suffered vaccine injury so that we can learn from them.” For too long, he said, “moms and children with vaccine injuries, the parents of those children, people who suffered injuries themselves, have been marginalized, vilified, demonized, and gaslighted,” without the medical attention they needed or the studies that should have been done.

That ends now. “At the CDC, we recognize that the best way to protect Americans is to listen to them, and we’re doing exactly that,” the Official HHS video declares. “When they share their stories with the CDC, we listen, we investigate, we believe them, and we go where the evidence shows us.” Kennedy said patients in the room shared a recurring theme: doctors ignored their symptoms and never reported what parents believed had happened to their children. “That cannot continue.”

This is Make America Healthy Again in action, and it carries President Trump’s name. “President Trump and I are building a health system that takes them seriously, follows the evidence, and uses what we learn to make vaccines safer,” Kennedy wrote. “This is how we earn back trust in our public health institutions.” His message to every family that felt unheard: “The Trump administration wants all the mothers, all the people who believe that they’ve been injured by vaccines to understand that you’re finally being listened to. Let’s make America healthy again.” Watch the Official HHS video.