Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. selected eight new members for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee on Wednesday after he dismissed all 17 of the committee’s previous members.
“All of these individuals are committed to evidence-based medicine, gold-standard science, and common sense,” Kennedy said in a post on X. “They have each committed to demanding definitive safety and efficacy data before making any new vaccine recommendations.”
The new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices members have been met with criticism from experts and the media who claim they don’t have enough vaccine expertise to be on the committee. One critic, Michael Mina, a physician and immunologist who taught at Harvard University, said he had no problem with most of
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