Kennedy last week announced he would “retire” the entire panel that guides U.S. vaccine policy. He also quietly removed Dr.

Kennedy's picks circumvented the usual CDC process for selecting members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, known as ACIP. In previous administrations, career agency officials ...

Many protesters called for the appointment of a new CDC director and the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the CDC. “I am here today to tell ...

Kennedy Jr. has appointed several prominent critics of the government’s Covid-19 response to that committee. He announced eight new members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

Kennedy made the announcement in a social media post on Wednesday. The committee, created in 1964, makes recommendations to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent vaccine advisory committee are being removed from their posts, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.