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HHS announced the removal of every member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
The ACIP is made up of independent experts who advise the CDC on vaccines.
Calling it a “clean sweep,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced the removal of all 17 members of a CDC advisory committee that is instrumental in the making of federal vaccine recommendations.
In a commentary published by The Wall Street Journal and later issued in a press release, Kennedy said the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) would be reconstituted with new members “to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science.”
HHS has fired all the members of a key CDC vaccine advisory panel.
The ACIP is made up of independent medical