Tag: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

CDC is “in the ICU right now” former officials say

Volume 406, Issue 10508
13 September 2025
WORLD REPORT  Senior officials say HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr is eviscerating the CDC. Washington Correspondent Susan Jaffe reports.    
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) implosion was months in the making, senior officials tell The Lancet after they resigned in protest following the dismissal of CDC Director Susan Monarez by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. They describe a gutted agency so damaged that it might not be able to fulfil its core mission to protect Americans from public health threats.  An HHS spokeswoman called their comments “the gripes of disgruntled former employees.”  [Continued here.]
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AMA protests changes to key vaccine advisory committee

Volume 405, Issue 10496
21 June 2025
WORLD REPORT  The organisation, which represents more than 270 000 physicians and medical students, has
been reluctant to criticise the Trump administration’s actions, until now. Susan Jaffe reports.  
After months of relative quiet while the Trump administration overhauls US health and science agencies, the American Medical Association  has had enough.  When Health and Human Services  Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr dismissed all 17 members of the independent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, delegates attending AMA’s annual meeting strongly condemned the action.  On June 10, more than 700 delegates approved an emergency resolution calling on Kennedy to reverse his decision [and] required AMA leadership to “immediately” ask the Senate committee overseeing HHS to investigate Kennedy’s actions “regarding his administration of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices”.  [Continued here.]
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