Five new advisers chosen by Robert F Kennedy Jr will join the vaccines committee for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the agency and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Monday, in a move that underscores the increasingly anti-vaccine stance of the committee.
The new advisers will join eight others chosen by Kennedy for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in June after he fired the previous 17 advisers in an unprecedented move. On Thursday and Friday, the committee plans to vote on three shots – the measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine; the hepatitis B vaccine given at birth; and Covid vaccines.
