RFK Jr sacks vaccine advisory panel
Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has fired all 17 members of a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts and is in the process of replacing them, drawing protest from many vaccine scientists.
The move is the most far-reaching in a series of actions by Kennedy, a long-time vaccine sceptic, to reshape US regulation of vaccines, food and medicine. Scientists and experts said the changes to the vaccine panel, which recommends how vaccines are used and by whom, would undermine public confidence in health agencies.
Reuters