Kennedy broadens vaccine advisory panel's role to focus on risks (Reuters)
CHICAGO, April 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday issued a new charter for a CDC vaccine advisory committee that expands the role of the panel to include a focus on vaccine risks and supposed gaps in vaccine safety evidence.
The charter, signed by Kennedy on March 31 and posted on Thursday, follows a federal court ruling last month that declared most prior members of Kennedy's vaccine panel unqualified, and put their decisions on hold.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the use of vaccines, had been a key tool in Kennedy's efforts to reshape U.S. vaccine policy.
In a March 16 decision, Boston-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy concluded that ACIP had been unlawfully reconstituted after Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, last year removed all 17 independent experts who previously served on the panel and named several new members who share many of his controversial vaccine views.
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