Suit To Restore COVID-19 Vaccination Schedule Will Continue, Federal Judge Says

( October 31, 2025, 12:58 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge on Oct. 30 lifted the government shutdown-related stay of a lawsuit by several physicians’ professional groups and three Jane Does against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and several other federal officials and agencies seeking to set aside the HHS’s removal of the COVID-19 vaccination from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended immunization schedules for healthy children and pregnant women....