Lawsuit alleges RFK Jr. requires vaccine panel members to be Republicans or independents
A lawsuit filed Monday by a coalition of medical professional groups alleges that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. barred registered Democrats from serving on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, has functioned for decades as an independent expert panel that helps guide the federal government’s decisions on immunizations. But in June, Kennedy — who has for years peddled anti-vaccine misinformation — fired all 17 panel members.
Kennedy claimed the firings were needed to “re-establish public confidence in vaccine science” and appointed eight new members to the panel, including several anti-vaccine activists.
The lawsuit, filed by a coalition that includes the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Physicians, alleges Kennedy’s May directive to remove Covid-19 vaccination recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women from the CDC’s immunization schedule, which was made without ACIP’s input, violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawsuit-alleges-rfk-jr-requires-193045829.html
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