U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., abruptly removes all 17 sitting members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). An epidemiologist explains

A fired committee member who served on the panel since July 2024 said the decision to fire him and his colleagues was "out of the blue."

It’s made up of pediatricians, epidemiologists, immunologists and other physicians but on Monday, all 17 members were abruptly fired by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.