The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may replace a panel of vaccine advisers, rather than appealing a recent ruling that stayed their appointments, members said.
Dr. Robert Malone, one of the individuals appointed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), said on March 19 that the panel “has been disbanded.”
“The government’s response to the AAP lawsuit and judge Murphey’s [sic] injunction is to disband and then recreate a new ACIP committee, as this will take less time than would be required to file and prosecute an appeal,” he wrote in a post on X….