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CDC staff and retired workers call for Kennedy’s resignation in a protest outside headquarters
The demonstration came a day after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gutted a federal vaccine safety panel and vowed to ...
Kennedy replaces fired US CDC panel members, includes anti-vaccine proponents
U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. named eight members to serve on a key panel of vaccine advisers on Wednesday, ...
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Kennedy’s Overhaul of the CDC Vaccine Panel Raises Deep Questions About Science, Trust, and Policy
We’ve taken a giant step backwards,” remarked Dr. Paul Offit, a leading vaccine scientist, after the abrupt dismissal of the ...
'Manufactured chaos': Kennedy guts CDC's vaccine panel of independent experts
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices helps the agency make recommendations on who should get certain vaccines.
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RFK Jr. taps allies and COVID vaccine critics among picks for CDC advisory panel. Here's who's on the list.
Kennedy's picks circumvented the usual CDC process for selecting members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, known as ACIP. In previous administrations, career agency officials ...
‘Undermining trust’: Kennedy’s promises on vaccines put to the test
Kennedy Jr. promised he would not discourage people from getting vaccines or make the shots “difficult” to access. Now that the longtime anti-vaccine activist has the job, he’s putting his promise to ...
CDC rehires 450 employees fired from HIV prevention, environmental centers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the latest agency in the Health and Human Services Department to rehire ...
Analysis-Kennedy’s ouster of US vaccine advisers puts pharma ties under scrutiny
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s surprise ouster of a national vaccine advisory board, claiming it was "plagued ...