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Kennedy announced he had fired all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee and would replace them with new members.
Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he is removing every member of a government panel that makes vaccine recommendations. Kennedy said he is "retiring" all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices,
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices helps the agency make recommendations on who should get certain vaccines.
The loss of special government employee status for four members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices follows the resignation of ACIP co-lead Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, who left in protest of a controversial change in COVID-19 recommendations for healthy children and