Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sensationally ousted every member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the Biden-appointed group that made recommendations on the necessity and use of vaccines, in the first of a series of sweeping changes.
The decision to remove all 17 members of the scientific committee, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and replace them with his own picks, was described as “a clean sweep” by President Trump’s Health Secretary in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published Monday.
“Without removing the current members, the current Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until 2028,” RFK Jr. wrote.
“A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science.”
Kennedy Jr., one of the leading anti-vaccine activists in the US, did not say who he would appoint to the panel, but said the committee would meet in Atlanta in two weeks time.
The move has been slammed by a number of major physicians and public health groups.
