Seventeen vaccine experts who were dismissed from a federal advisory panel last week say they are worried that recent moves by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will destabilize vaccine policy in the US and jeopardize access to lifesaving immunizations.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency's network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orders to change the agency's vaccine recommendations and the committee that makes them.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The announcement,

After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. removes every member of the CDC’s entire advisory vaccine committee, Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) tells MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that the timing of the firing is a “game of distraction.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly removed 17 vaccine experts from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Monday — and Washington is already reeling.