{"id":9776,"date":"2025-06-25T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9776"},"modified":"2025-06-25T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:33:55","slug":"vaccine-panel-gutted-by-kennedy-loses-a-member-ahead-of-first-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/25\/vaccine-panel-gutted-by-kennedy-loses-a-member-ahead-of-first-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine Panel Gutted by Kennedy Loses a Member Ahead of First Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/24\/us\/politics\/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccine-panel.html\">NYT<\/a> Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the panel and appointed eight new ones. Now, the board is down to just seven. Two weeks ago, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/09\/health\/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccine-panel.html\">fired all 17 members<\/a>&nbsp;of an influential committee that recommends which vaccines Americans should get. He then named eight new members, at least half of whom have expressed some skepticism about vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tuesday night, the panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, was down to seven members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Michael Ross, a physician licensed in Virginia who is a former professor of obstetrics and gynecology, withdrew from the committee. He was not included in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/acip\/membership\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"the list of voting members, opens in a new window\">the list of voting members<\/a>&nbsp;posted on the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"vum Q\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the panel and appointed eight new ones. Now, the board is down to just seven. Two weeks ago, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&nbsp;fired all 17 members&nbsp;of an influential committee that recommends which vaccines Americans should get. He then named eight new members, [&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-9776","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\/9776","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=9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9777,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions\/9777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}