All members of a panel that advised the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines have been kicked to the curb.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced what he called a “clean sweep” in a Monday op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, which noted, in a headline, “We’re reconstituting an advisory committee to avoid conflicts of interest.”
Kennedy framed the change as a need to respond to sagging confidence in America’s public health pronouncements.
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“Vaccines have become a divisive issue in American politics, but there is one thing all parties can agree on: The U.S. faces a crisis of public trust. Whether toward health agencies, pharmaceutical companies or vaccines themselves, public confidence is waning,” he wrote.
Kennedy, whose skepticism
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