RFK Jr.’s Policy Moves Are Weakening Vaccine Infrastructure, Fired Advisers Say

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to overhaul a key committee on vaccine policy has left the country’s vaccine infrastructure “critically weakened,” former members of the group said in a piece published in JAMA on Monday.

Last week, the health secretary dismissed all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, before appointing eight new members, several of whom are vocal vaccine critics. The abruptness of the terminations undermines the committee, the fired members say, in a rare public letter decrying the government’s actions.