High Stakes for Public Health: RFK Jr.’s Controversial Vaccine Panel Convenes Amid Outcry
High Stakes for Public Health: RFK Jr.’s Controversial Vaccine Panel Convenes Amid Outcry Atlanta is the focal point this week for a contentious two-day meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the influential body responsible for shaping federal vaccine policy and recommendations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This gathering, which began Wednesday, is anything but routine, following a dramatic overhaul by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. just two weeks prior. In a move…