Senator slams RFK Jr. for replacing CDC vaccine panel
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About three dozen of the nearly 1,200 measles infections in 2025 have been in people with two measles vaccine doses, the CDC says.
Kennedy last week announced he would "retire" the entire panel that guides U.S. vaccine policy. He also quietly removed Dr. Melinda Wharton — the veteran Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who coordinated the committee's meetings.
The staff of two world-class CDC laboratories that were slated to be closed by the Trump administration have been informed that their terminations have been canceled.
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The demonstration came a day after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gutted a federal vaccine safety panel and vowed to replace all its members.
The government hired back more than 450 CDC employees that were fired as part of the widespread restructuring that took place in April.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now urging summer camp operators to check for documentation of immunity from measles through vaccination or prior infection for all children, staff and volunteers, amid a deadly year of outbreaks that is now near record levels.
CDC respiratory virus official resigns as former ACIP members warn of immunization progress rollback
A Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist who leads the team that tracks respiratory virus hospitalizations abruptly resigned yesterday, based on concerns that the data won ’ t be used objectively or with scientific rigor following recent changes to the CDC ’ s vaccine advisory group.
The scientist, Dr. Fiona Havers, told colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday that she no longer had confidence that the COVID and RSV data would be used "objectively or evaluated with appropriate scientific rigor to make evidence-based vaccine policy decisions," according to an email seen by Reuters.