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Defending RFK Jr.’s Adviser
Retsef Levi, an MIT business school professor, is well-suited to the job at ACIP.
Sanders asks Cassidy to launch investigation into RFK Jr.’s purge of vaccine panel
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is calling for the Senate Health Committee to launch a bipartisan investigation into Health and ...
With slate of anti-vaccine moves, RFK Jr. steps up his assault on public health
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. places anti-vaxxers in control of U.S. vaccine policy, slandering an actual expert along ...
CDC vaccine advisers who were removed from committee by RFK Jr. speak out
The 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, who were ousted last week, argued their abrupt dismissal has "left ...
RFK Jr.’s firing of little-known committee members could mean families can’t afford vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which recommends which ...
Former CDC advisers say they are ‘deeply concerned’ RFK Jr.’s actions will critically weaken US vaccine program
Seventeen vaccine experts who were dismissed from a federal advisory panel last week say they are worried that recent moves ...
RFK Jr. proves integrity and competence are optional now | Letters
Opinion: RFK Jr. has filled his department with singularly unqualified people: conspiracy theorists, quacks and vaccine ...
CDC virus expert resigns after RFK Jr.’s purge of vaccine advisers
Fiona Havers, who oversaw CDC respiratory virus data, told colleagues she no longer had confidence the data would be used ...
Poll: RFK Jr.'s food agenda finds appeal across partisan lines, but vaccines are a different story
The new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey found adults divided over the health secretary but with a bare ...
Bernie Sanders calls for investigation into RFK Jr.’s firing of vaccine advisory panel
Sanders warned that Robert F. Kennedy's firing of the 17-member vaccine advisory board could endanger public health.
CDC Virus Expert Quits With a Scary Warning After RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Purge
In JAMA, the peer-reviewed medical journal, the ousted board members fired off against Kennedy’s cull. They wrote that the dismissals and the resulting replacement with MAHA minions, as well as the ...
CDC official overseeing COVID hospitalization data resigns after RFK Jr.'s vaccine orders
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency's network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and ...