{"id":9716,"date":"2025-06-17T18:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9716"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:43:00","slug":"what-happens-to-vaccines-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/17\/what-happens-to-vaccines-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens to Vaccines Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/11\/well\/vaccines-cdc-rfk-jr.html\">NYT<\/a> Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s overhaul of an influential committee, including the appointment of new members, has created concern about vaccine access. The U.S. health secretary\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/09\/health\/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccine-panel.html\">dismissal of an influential vaccine advisory committee<\/a>&nbsp;this week sowed uncertainty about the future of vaccine recommendations nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/11\/us\/kennedy-cdc-vaccine-panel.html\">announced eight new members<\/a>&nbsp;of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which makes recommendations that are adopted by doctors, pharmacists, insurers and patients. His nominations included a physician who previously served on the committee, a scientist who has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/03\/technology\/robert-malone-covid.html\">spread unfounded claims<\/a>&nbsp;about Covid-19 vaccines and an epidemiologist who denounced Covid lockdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s overhaul of an influential committee, including the appointment of new members, has created concern about vaccine access. The U.S. health secretary\u2019s&nbsp;dismissal of an influential vaccine advisory committee&nbsp;this week sowed uncertainty about the future of vaccine recommendations nationwide. On Wednesday, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&nbsp;announced eight new members&nbsp;of the Advisory Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9717,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716\/revisions\/9717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}