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RFK Jr. barred registered Democrats from being vaccine advisors, lawsuit says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-06 20:53:55

After US health secretary and hardline anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 highly respected vaccine experts from the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) last month, he vetted their replacements not by medical and scientific expertise, but by their political leanings, according to a lawsuit filed by medical organizations Monday. Under Kennedy, to qualify to be on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's nationally influential and historically

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Insurers Aren’t Saying Whether They’ll Cover Vaccines for Kids if Government Stops Recommending Them

wired.com Elisa Muyl 2025-08-17 05:25:55

In the wake of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) announcing plans to revisit its recommended schedule for childhood vaccinations—a move that has drawn widespread criticism from experts—major insurers have not confirmed whether they’ll continue to cover the full cost of routine shots for children. For 60 years ACIP has provided vaccine guidance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including on the timing and dosage of childhood immunizations. Insurers ar

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RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Votes Against Thimerosal Flu Shots, Citing Debunked Risks

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-08-25 17:45:13

Robert F. Kennedy’s war against vaccines has garnered another victory. An outside advisory panel newly reassembled by RFK Jr. has voted today to recommend against people using vaccines containing thimerosal, a once-common ingredient that anti-vaccination advocates have wrongly blamed for causing autism and other health problems. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met this week to issue several vaccine-related recommendations. In a majority vote, the ACIP recommended against childr

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All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-27 01:04:25

A federal vaccine panel entirely hand-selected by health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gathered for its first meeting Wednesday—and immediately announced that it would re-evaluate the entire childhood vaccination schedule, as well as the one for adults. The meeting overall was packed with anti-vaccine talking points and arguments from the new panel members, confirming public health experts' fears that the once-revered panel is now critically corrupted and that Kenned

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CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel now a “farce”—calls grow to scrap meeting

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-30 13:19:52

After anti-vaccine advocate and US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 experts who sat on a revered federal vaccine panel and restocked it with eight dubious members, a growing chorus of lawmakers, health experts, and public advocates are calling for a pivotal meeting scheduled for Wednesday to be scrapped and for the panel to be "dissolved" and remade with qualified members. On June 9, Kennedy unilaterally cleaned out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Co

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After RFK Jr. overhauls CDC panel, measles and flu vaccines are up for debate

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-07 21:42:46

With ardent anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the country's top health position, use of a long-approved vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella/chickenpox (MMRV) as well as flu shots that include the preservative thimerosal will now be reevaluated, putting their future availability and use in question. The development seemingly continues to vindicate health experts' worst fears that, as health secretary, Kennedy would attack and dismantle the federal government's scie

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All 17 fired vaccine advisors unite to blast RFK Jr.’s “destabilizing decisions”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-09 16:26:40

All 17 experts ousted from the federal vaccine advisory committee have spoken out about the drastic changes that anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made since taking office. Those changes include unilaterally restricting access to COVID-19 vaccines and summarily firing the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which had guided federal vaccine policies for more than 60 years. "We are deeply concerned that these destabilizing deci

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After RFK Jr. fires vaccine advisors, doctors brace for blitz on childhood shots

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-18 12:38:11

The medical community is bracing for attacks on, and the possible dismantling of, federal recommendations for safe, lifesaving childhood vaccinations after health secretary and fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired all 17 members of a federal vaccine advisory committee Monday. Outrage has been swift after Kennedy announced the "clean sweep" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (A

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RFK Jr. barred registered Democrats from being vaccine advisors, lawsuit says

Insurers Aren’t Saying Whether They’ll Cover Vaccines for Kids if Government Stops Recommending Them

RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Votes Against Thimerosal Flu Shots, Citing Debunked Risks

All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel

CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel now a “farce”—calls grow to scrap meeting

After RFK Jr. overhauls CDC panel, measles and flu vaccines are up for debate

All 17 fired vaccine advisors unite to blast RFK Jr.’s “destabilizing decisions”

After RFK Jr. fires vaccine advisors, doctors brace for blitz on childhood shots

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