RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel to Vote on Flu Shots With Mercury

A panel of key government advisers appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will weigh in on an infrequently used vaccine preservative that has been wrongly linked to autism in the past.

Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, will hear a presentation about thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative that is used in some adult flu vaccines, at a planned meeting next week. The group will later vote on “thimerosal-containing vaccine recommendations,” according to a draft agenda posted Wednesday.