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NEW YORK — <\/span>The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order as it tries to cut the number of vaccines recommended for every child in the United States.<\/p>\n The appeal filed Wednesday was a delayed response to a March 16 court order<\/a> that blocked the decision by President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, to end broad recommendations<\/a> for all children to be vaccinated against flu<\/a>, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis and RSV, a respiratory virus.<\/p>\n U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy’s order also stopped a meeting of a Kennedy-appointed vaccine advisory committee<\/a>. <\/p>\n The stay continues while the appeal is considered.<\/p>\n The government’s one-sentence filing did not say why the block should be lifted. U.S. health officials did not immediately comment on the filing, or respond to a question about why they waited six weeks to file an appeal. <\/p>\n The appeal is the latest development in a lawsuit filed in July by the American Academy of Pediatrics and some other medical groups. The lawsuit in federal court in Boston originally focused on Kennedy\u2019s decision to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccinations for most children and pregnant women.<\/p>\n The lawsuit was updated as Kennedy took more steps that alarmed medical societies, causing the plaintiffs to ask Murphy to take steps to address those policy changes too.<\/p>\n For example, the plaintiffs amended the lawsuit to stop the scaling back of the nation\u2019s childhood vaccination schedule. They also asked the court to look at Kennedy\u2019s actions concerning the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises public health officials on what vaccines to recommend to doctors and patients.<\/p>\n Kennedy, a leading anti-vaccine activist before becoming the nation\u2019s top health official, fired the entire 17-member panel last year and replaced it with a group that includes several anti-vaccine voices.<\/p>\n Murphy, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Joe Biden, said Kennedy\u2019s reconstitution of ACIP likely violated federal law. The judge ordered the appointments \u2014 and all decisions made by the reformulated committee \u2014 put on hold.<\/p>\n