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Vaccine expert warns ‘science denialists’ now ‘making policy’ after RFK Jr. shakes up vaccine panel
NBC News· 2025-07-03 22:01
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ., a longtime peddler of misinformation surrounding vaccine safety, has been moving to reshape US vaccine policy, raising alarm within much of the medical community.According to new reports, the FDA's top vaccine official moved last month to limit the use of two COVID vaccines that had been approved, overruling recommendations by agency medical experts who plan to approve the shots for everyone 12 and older. It all comes after the new members of the ...
Pathway to limit access to vaccines? Doctor reacts to RFK Jr. removing members of CDC vaccine panel
MSNBC· 2025-06-10 21:15
Medical experts are worried about an aggressive move by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. . that could completely reshape the country's vaccine policy.The secretary, writing in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, announced that he's removing all 17 members of the CDC's advisory committee on immunization practices. That is an independent panel which consists of medical and public health experts who make recommendations to the CDC about who should get certain vaccines and when, including childhood vaccinations. Jo ...