Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has reportedly been asked by the White House to tone down his public vaccine skepticism ahead of the midterms, but the Trump official is allegedly still leading a wide-ranging, multi-agency review of vaccine science behind the scenes. The reported review, described by The New York Times , will focus on exploring Kennedy’s unproven theories that vaccines are causing chronic disease and may be linked to autism. “It just demonstrates that no matter what the general tone is about vaccines, whether we talk about them or not, the secretary is going to continue to try and look at the data and analyze it in a way that will help support the conclusions that he’s already made,” Dr. Daniel Jernigan, who oversaw vaccine safety at the CDC until he resigned in August, told the paper. “And that, to me, is a real problem.” The Independent has contacted the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services for comment.…