Kennedy's Reconstituted CDC Vaccine Panel Shifts COVID Guidance and Reworks Child Recommendations

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, reconstituted by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with vaccine skeptics replacing career public health experts, voted to narrow COVID-19 vaccine guidance and reworked childhood immunization recommendations. The votes marked the first time ACIP had moved against longstanding CDC scientific consensus on childhood vaccines. Former ACIP members and the American Academy of Pediatrics condemned the changes as politically motivated and dangerous.