Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on [June 9] removed all 17 members of the expert panel that makes vaccine policy recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying they’d be replaced with “new members currently under consideration.” Health and Human Services portrayed the unprecedented move as “restoring public trust” in vaccines, but it’s expected to introduce anti-vaccine ideology to the influential panel.
“Make no mistake: Politicizing the [Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices] as Secretary Kennedy is doing will undermine public trust under the guise of improving it,” said Tom Frieden, former director of the CDC.
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Kennedy during his confirmation process had promised senators he would keep the panel, without committing to maintaining its current makeup.
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Pressed on whether Kennedy broke his promise, [Senate health committee Chairman Bill] Cassidy (R-La) told reporters the promise was about keeping the ACIP “process,” not the committee members.
