{"id":9788,"date":"2025-06-25T18:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9788"},"modified":"2025-06-25T18:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:31:23","slug":"cdc-vaccine-panel-holds-meeting-after-rfk-jr-ousts-and-replaces-expert-former-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/25\/cdc-vaccine-panel-holds-meeting-after-rfk-jr-ousts-and-replaces-expert-former-members\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC vaccine panel holds meeting after RFK Jr. ousts and replaces expert former members"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/health\/watch-live-cdc-vaccine-panel-holds-meeting-after-rfk-jr-ousts-and-replaces-expert-former-members\">PBS Newshour<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH LIVE: CDC vaccine panel holds meeting after RFK Jr. ousts and replaces expert former members\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5lGCczGBnR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s new vaccine advisers alarmed pediatricians Wednesday by announcing inquiries into some long-settled questions about children\u2019s shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opening the first meeting of Kennedy\u2019s handpicked seven-member panel, committee chairman Martin Kulldorff said he was appointing a work group to evaluate the \u201ccumulative effect\u201d of the children\u2019s vaccine schedule \u2014 the list of immunizations given at different times throughout childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also to be evaluated, he said, is how two other shots are administered \u2014 one that guards against liver-destroying hepatitis B and another that combines chickenpox protection with MMR, the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an early sign of how the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is being reshaped by Kennedy, a leading antivaccine activist before becoming the nation\u2019s top health official. He fired the entire 17-member panel this month and replaced it with a group that includes several anti-vaccine voices.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS Newshour U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s new vaccine advisers alarmed pediatricians Wednesday by announcing inquiries into some long-settled questions about children\u2019s shots. Opening the first meeting of Kennedy\u2019s handpicked seven-member panel, committee chairman Martin Kulldorff said he was appointing a work group to evaluate the \u201ccumulative effect\u201d of the children\u2019s vaccine schedule [&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-9788","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\/9788","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=9788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9789,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788\/revisions\/9789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}