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Health Secretary Kennedy Revises Vaccine Advisory Committee Charter

4/10/2026

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revised the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) charter to gain power to appoint allies and steer toward vaccine-injury analysis.
The updated charter was published on April 9.
The move departs from focusing on individual vaccines and aligns with anti-vaccine activists' agendas.
It adds monitoring for mRNA vaccines, and Kennedy has called the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine 'the deadliest vaccine ever made'.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revised the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) charter to gain power to appoint allies and steer toward vaccine-injury analysis.
The updated charter was published on April 9.
The move departs from focusing on individual vaccines and aligns with anti-vaccine activists' agendas.
It adds monitoring for mRNA vaccines, and Kennedy has called the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine 'the deadliest vaccine ever made'.