Health Apr 10 The Trump administration just updated rules for CDC's vaccine advisory panel, allowing inclusion of RFK Jr. allies By Lauren Neergaard, Associated Press
Health Mar 16 Judge blocks RFK Jr. from scaling back childhood vaccine recommendations A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked federal health officials from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every child, and said U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likely violated federal procedures in revamping a key vaccine advisory committee. By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press
Health Dec 06 Fact-checking the CDC panel's reasons for dropping universal newborn hepatitis B vaccine recommendation The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted Friday to end its recommendation that newborns be universally vaccinated against hepatitis B. Here are four fact-checks from the panel's deliberations. By Grace Abels, Madison Czopek, PolitiFact
Health Sep 19 How RFK Jr.'s hand-picked CDC advisory panel voted on COVID vaccines and more The unpredictable meeting followed a full shakeup by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to rid the expert advisory panel of what he claims are the pharmaceutical industry’s corporate interests. By Laura Santhanam
Politics Sep 19 WATCH: Kennedy's vaccine advisers decline to recommend COVID shot for all Americans In a series of votes, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t specifically recommend vaccination but said people could make individual decisions. By Mike Stobbe, Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press
Jul 30 Ousted vaccine panel members say rigorous science is being abandoned under RFK Jr. By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press Seventeen experts ousted from a U.S. vaccine committee are expressing little faith in what the panel has become. Continue reading
Jun 26 RFK Jr.'s vaccine committee endorses flu shots, except those with preservative thimerosal By Mike Stobbe, Lauren Neergaard, Associated Press The Trump administration’s new vaccine advisers on Thursday endorsed this fall’s flu vaccinations for just about every American but threw in a twist: Only use certain shots free of an ingredient antivaccine groups have falsely tied to autism. Continue reading