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In 2026, Mary Holland, the chief executive of Children's Health Defense, testified in New Hampshire in favor of a bill to eliminate vaccination requirements for school entry.

A significant portion of the advocacy by the group Children's Health Defense is centered on vaccines.

In a social media post on September 17, 2026, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro criticized Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for addressing a "vaccine-denial conference" during a major measles outbreak.

In the week of September 17, 2026, officials in Pennsylvania reported a fourth measles death, an 18-year-old, bringing the total to four including two infants and a 40-year-old woman.

After the first measles deaths were announced in Pennsylvania in 2026, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly questioned if measles was the cause and suggested the reports may have been "fabricated."

As of September 2026, U.S. measles cases have surpassed a 35-year record, with about 3,300 cases reported.

As of September 17, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting no measles deaths for 2026 and has not acknowledged the deaths reported in Pennsylvania.

Of the four reported measles deaths in Pennsylvania in 2026, the two adults were unvaccinated and the two infants were too young to be vaccinated.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was absent from the 2025 Children's Health Defense conference in Texas.

In an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation," administration health official Dr. Mehmet Oz stated that "The M.M.R. vaccine is not a lethal vaccine," correcting President Trump's earlier statement.

During a White House signing ceremony in August 2026, President Trump described the measles shot as "lethal."

The Environmental Protection Agency has stated that the trails left by airplanes, referred to by some as "chemtrails," are condensation and not chemicals.

In August 2026, President Trump signed an executive order that called for limiting the number of vaccines given to children.

Decades of research have disproven the finding from Andrew Wakefield's retracted paper that linked the MMR vaccine with autism.

On September 17, 2026, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Children’s Health Defense convention that they had a "friend at the White House" and he would "die with my boots on" pursuing answers about vaccine risks.

Andrew Wakefield, a British doctor whose paper linking the MMR vaccine to autism was retracted, spoke at the Children's Health Defense conference on September 17, 2026.

At a Children's Health Defense conference on September 17, 2026, speaker Mark Gorton, president of the MAHA Institute, called the success of the polio vaccine a "fraud."

On September 16, 2026, President Trump’s surgeon general nominee, Dr. Nicole Saphier, defended the safety and efficacy of vaccines during her Senate confirmation hearing.

Fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-supported Houthis has reignited due to a U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

In 2015, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman initiated a war against the Houthis in Yemen.