Government: No Concrete Harm From COVID Vaccination Recommendation Changes Shown

( November 20, 2025, 2:45 PM EST) -- BOSTON — Stating that none of the plaintiffs has demonstrated actual concrete injury and thus standing is lacking, the federal government on Nov. 19 moved to dismiss the third amended complaint of several physicians’ professional groups and three Jane Does in their lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its secretary and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its acting director seeking to set aside both the HHS’s replacement of the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccination recommendation for healthy children and pregnant women with “shared clinical decision making (SCDM)” and the appointment of new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)....