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“Even if the State of Maine were in violation of Title IX (and, to be clear, it is not), there are statutory and regulatory requirements that the federal government must comply with before it may freeze federal funds owed to a state,” the lawsuit says. “The Secretary followed none of those procedures here. Her action is arbitrary, capricious, not in accordance with law, and did not observe procedures required by law.”

Earlier this month, Rollins sent a letter to Maine Governor Janet Mills, which was obtained by Reuters. "I am freezing Maine's federal funds for certain administrative and technical functions in schools,” Rollins’ letter says. “This is only the beginning, though you are free to end it at any time by protecting women and girls in compliance with federal law.”

‘He’s wrong,’ one expert said

“It is a single antigen vaccine. And for respiratory illnesses, the single antigen vaccines have never worked,” Kennedy said when asked by CBS’s chief medical correspondent, Jonathan LaPook, why the decision was delayed.

“A tenet of virology is that you go after one of the proteins on the surface that generates a good immune response, and that’s what you target. This principle has withstood the test of time because we’ve made multiple good vaccines in that manner,” said Marks, who was pushed out of the FDA late last month at the behest of Kennedy.

“This is another example of Kennedy being an ignoramus about vaccination, if not other things as well. And you can quote me on that,” said Stanley Plotkin, a co-developer of the rotavirus vaccine and of the vaccine that protects against rubella.

All Covid vaccines target a single antigen, a part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus known as the spike protein. Most flu vaccines effectively target a single antigen, the hemagglutinin protein on the exterior of flu viruses. And vaccines against respiratory syncytial viruses are also single antigen vaccines, targeting RSV’s F protein.