WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has chosen seven new members for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s panel of vaccine experts, an internal CDC document showed on Wednesday.
The Department of Health and Human Services has directed the CDC to name the seven new members to its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, according to the document, which was seen by Reuters.
Kennedy fired all 17 members of the panel in June and replaced them with eight like-minded anti-vaccine activists and other hand-picked advisers, though one has since left the body.
(Reporting by Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago and Ahmed Aboulenein in Washington; Editing by Leslie Adler)
