( May 7, 2026, 1:43 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — Ruling that amici curiae who were denied intervention and were not parties to a case except as amici and had no standing to seek a stay, a Massachusetts federal judge on May 6 denied the motion of amici children’s advocacy group and others to stay the court’s grant of preliminary relief, which stayed a January U.S. Department of Health and Human Services memorandum announcing the reduction on the number of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended childhood vaccinations from 17 to 11 and the appointment of 13 new members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)....