In a chaotic meeting, RFK Jr.’s handpicked advisers begin altering the childhood vaccine schedule
ATLANTA — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants his handpicked panel of vaccine advisers to restore declining public trust in vaccines.
What that looked like was on full display on Thursday and Friday: The 12-person committee, which includes several scientists and researchers who’ve questioned or spread misinformation about vaccines, raised doubts about vaccine safety and effectiveness data presented by CDC experts, floated a variety of theoretical or unsupported concerns of their own, and revisited decades-old vaccine policy based on what they claimed were concerns from parents and patients, not a public health need or fresh data.
Chelsea Cirruzzo, Elaine Chen, and Lizzy Lawrence
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