Health secretary unilaterally appointed ACIP’s eight new members, several of which are critical of immunizations
The first meeting of a critical federal vaccine panel remade by health secretary and vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr began amid controversy – not only about the eight new members unilaterally appointed by Kennedy – but regarding the questions they would consider, their conflicts of interest, views on vaccines and the scheduled speakers.
The panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), develops recommendations for how to administer vaccines to the American public.