On June 9, 2025 US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the entire CDC vaccine advisory panel known as “ACIP committee” due to their conflits of interest, with the purpose of Restoring Public Trust in Vaccines. [1, 2, 3]
In a Wall Street Journal OpEd and on X, RFK Jr. declared the ACIP committee is “plagued with persistent conflicts of interest” and “branding the current members as a shadowy cabal heavily influenced by pharmaceutical money”. [1]