RFK Jr. Removes All Members of CDC Panel Advising on Vaccines

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Source: Bloomberg

June 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM EDT
Updated on June 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT


The Department of Health and Human Services dismissed all 17 members that make up one of the main committees advising the US government on vaccine safety and policy, an unprecedented move to reshape a key scientific panel. “A clean sweep is needed to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal.

The group, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, reviews the latest data and makes recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which typically implements them. The group’s positions are influential and determine whether insurers cover shots, among other things.

Many of the members had received substantial funding from pharmaceutical companies, including vaccine manufacturers, Kennedy said in his commentary, without providing evidence. Committee members are required to declare potential conflicts of interest and recuse themselves from debates or votes on those products.

“The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine,” Kennedy wrote. Some committee members had no idea they had lost their positions until seeing the decision reported in the news, according to people familiar with the matter.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-09/kennedy-removes-all-members-of-cdc-panel-advising-on-vaccines?srnd=homepage-americas

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RFK Jr. Removes All Members of CDC Panel Advising on Vaccines

June 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM EDT


The Department of Health and Human Services is retiring the 17 members of a committee of government vaccine advisers, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday.

"A clean sweep is needed to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science," Kennedy said in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal.

The group, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, reviews the latest data and makes recommendations that determine whether insurers cover shots, among other things.

[Skittles]

1. JFC

[Strelnikov_]

4. JFC_cubed

This is the stuff that will get a lot of us killed.

[Karasu]

8. "A lot" is an understatement. I am of the stance that anyone who values their health and has the means to leave is 100%

correct to do so. RFK Jr.'s appointment was a hard line in the sand for me.

[Skittles]

10. HE literally wants to be the vaccine advisory authority

and HE is a fucking NUTCASE

[groundloop]

2. I suppose insurers will soon use this as cover to quit paying for vaccinations.

[sdfernando]

5. I am really glad I re-vaxed recently for

MMR & Polio and the COVID booster. I likely didn't need MMR & Polio, got all of those as a kid...but thought it prudent since is has been many decades except for COVID.

[Demovictory9]

3. To be replaced by 🤡 🤡 🤡

[progressoid]

6. Well, he might be partially right.

A clean sweep might reestablish public confidence in vaccine science.

Unfortunately, the people he replaces them with will do the opposite.

[stillcool]

7. public confidence

scarier by the day.

[Blues Heron]

9. Another sledge hammer blow to our country. These people mean business, must be stopped.

[Buddyzbuddy]

11. Maybe it would be better not to have the Dept. than to have lies perpetrated by it.

The Dept. gives the lies legitimacy. We then could eliminate Kennedy's position. I know it's easier said than done but we could bring it back with a new administration.
Maybe states could absorb some of the experienced genius researchers, temporarily so we don't lose everybody. Universities, hospitals and pharma could also help by creating additional positions to absorb teams.
It's just a thought. Which is more than I can say for Republicans and this administration.

[dickthegrouch]

12. How do we change incompetence into a malicious attack on each of us?

When are these threats from utterly deranged government "leaders" actionable by the rest of us?

This is so wrong. Why can't we fix it?

[hlthe2b]

13. GOD DAMN HIM TO HELL AND BACK AND REPEAT, REPEAT, REPEAT!!!!

[lonely bird]

14. Bullshit!

Removal of that fucking asshole would do wonders to restore public confidence in vaccine science.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Krasnov's death panel

[SouthBayDem]

16. Gift link missed equal sign

Better link

[Old Crank]

17. Here come more

Lawn and pool boys.

[generalbetrayus]

18. I just love getting medical advice from a heroin addict

who looks 20 years older than his actual age.

[womanofthehills]

19. To be fair - he's been a daily participant in AAA for 40 yrs

If your uncle and dad were both murdered you might take to drugs.

It’s not uncommon for new administrations to pick new people.

[bmichaelh]

20. RFK Jr is anti-freedom

Lies and more lies.

He lied by giving fake assurances to Senator Cassidy.

https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-vaccines-2672337760/

He says he wants to assure confidence in vaccine science.

To some, they will never accept vaccines, ever.

I know people like him that are anti-vaxxer.

They believe there is no disease that can not be cured by some natural cure.

If someone wants a vaccine, it should be their personal choice.