U.S. Well being Secretary RFK Jr. ousts whole CDC vaccine advisory committee

Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. File
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Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday (June 9, 2025) eliminated each member of a scientific committee that advises the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention on find out how to use vaccines and pledged to interchange them together with his personal picks.

The 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had been in a state of flux since Kennedy took over. Its first assembly this 12 months had been delayed when the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies abruptly postponed its February assembly. 

Mr Kennedy, who was one of many nation’s main anti-vaccine activists earlier than changing into the nation’s prime well being official, not too long ago took the bizarre step of fixing COVID-19 suggestions with out first consulting the panel.

Mr Kennedy, in a Wall Avenue Journal opinion piece, mentioned the committee members had too many conflicts of curiosity. Committee members routinely disclose any attainable conflicts firstly of public conferences.