Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services is considering overhauling his handpicked committee of vaccine skeptics after a federal judge ruled its members had been illegally appointed.
Despite promising during his confirmation hearings not to restrict Americans’ access to vaccines, Kennedy fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, which makes recommendations on immunization schedules, and replaced them with new members who largely shared his anti-vax views.
The vast majority of the new members also lacked “any meaningful experience in vaccines—the very focus of ACIP,” Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, wrote in an opinion this week blocking the implementation of the committee’s recommendations.
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