{"id":60306,"date":"2025-06-11T04:36:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60306"},"modified":"2025-06-11T04:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:36:48","slug":"rfk-jr-removes-all-17-members-of-cdc-vaccine-advisory-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60306","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Removes All 17 Members of CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/RFK_jr_Retires_CDC_Vaccine_Advisory_Panel.jpg\" alt=\"RFK jr Retires CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel\" width=\"1100\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/RFK_jr_Retires_CDC_Vaccine_Advisory_Panel.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/RFK_jr_Retires_CDC_Vaccine_Advisory_Panel-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/RFK_jr_Retires_CDC_Vaccine_Advisory_Panel-1024x737.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/RFK_jr_Retires_CDC_Vaccine_Advisory_Panel-768x553.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">HHS Secretary is &#8220;retiring&#8221; all members of government panel to &#8220;avoid conflicts of interest.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>In a major move to reshape U.S. vaccine policy, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/022450a5-5d72-4549-b1cf-e944f3528f7e?j=eyJ1IjoieWg4YXcifQ.P5dd96yeNjsZvqxez43LWKLeQBPn8oqoUB630mF8gtY\" rel=\"\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em> that he has ordered the complete removal of all 17 members of the CDC\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), citing long-standing and deeply rooted conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/2c4330ad-1f11-4521-a2bb-90a96b3d279a?j=eyJ1IjoieWg4YXcifQ.P5dd96yeNjsZvqxez43LWKLeQBPn8oqoUB630mF8gtY\" rel=\"\">show<\/a> 2,669,318 adverse events, including hospitalizations and deaths, have been linked to vaccines since 1990, but if fewer than 1% of adverse events are reported\u2014as a 2010 HHS-funded Harvard <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/73b6b20d-5828-4250-8e3b-bd18d342a54a?j=eyJ1IjoieWg4YXcifQ.P5dd96yeNjsZvqxez43LWKLeQBPn8oqoUB630mF8gtY\" rel=\"\">analysis<\/a> suggests\u2014the real number could be closer to 267 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are taking a bold step in restoring public trust by totally reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP),\u201d Kennedy wrote. \u201cWe are retiring the 17 current members of the committee, some of whom were last-minute appointees of the Biden administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/jonfleetwood\/p\/rfk-jr-removes-all-17-members-of\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/jonfleetwood\/p\/rfk-jr-removes-all-17-members-of<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HHS Secretary is &#8220;retiring&#8221; all members of government panel to &#8220;avoid conflicts of interest.&#8221; In a major move to reshape U.S. vaccine policy, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday in The Wall Street Journal that he has ordered the complete removal of all 17 members of the CDC\u2019s Advisory &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RFK Jr. Removes All 17 Members of CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60308,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306\/revisions\/60308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}