RFK Jr scraps vaccine committee members in effort to restore 'public trust'
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The Department of Health and Human Services dismissed all the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Monday.
The committee’s job was to decide and "make recommendations" related to the necessity and use of vaccines, according to an HHS news release.
All the current members of the committee were brought in under the Biden administration, and 13 of them were put on the committee last year. HHS said it would take until 2028 for most of the members to be replaced if they served their full term...
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