CDC’s ACIP meets, stressing ‘no pre-determined ideas’

27 June 2025

Despite calls for the meeting to be delayed, Wednesday’s meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) went ahead.

The committee met with an entirely different panel of members following the changes made to its make-up by Robert F Kennedy Jr (RFK Jr), US Secretary of Health and Human Services.

RFK Jr, who has repeatedly voiced his scepticism of vaccines, sacked the entire 17-member panel and installed eight others to take their place, including some who have expressed similar views on vaccines, ahead of this meeting.

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