New members of the panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines will be announced “over the coming days,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on June 10.
Kennedy on Monday removed all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, which provides recommendations regarding vaccines to the CDC.
Kennedy wrote on the social media platform X, that none of the new members will be “ideological anti-vaxxers.” He said the new members “will be highly credentialed physicians and scientists who will make extremely consequential public health determinations by applying evidence-based decision-making with objectivity and common sense.”
The Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC’s parent agency, said on Monday that the fired members would be replaced “with new members currently under consideration.” The agency had declined to provide more details….