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RFK Jr. Removes All Members of CDC Panel Advising on Vaccines

RFK Jr. Removes All Members of CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel

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By Gerry Smith, Rachel Cohrs Zhang, and Damian Garde

June 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM UTC

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June 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM UTC

The Department of Health and Human Services dismissed all 17 members that make up one of the main committees advising the US government on vaccine safety and policy, an unprecedented move to reshape a key scientific panel.

“A clean sweep is needed to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal.