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RFK Jr. Just Replaced the Experts Guiding U.S. Vaccines. Now What?

RFK Jr. Just Replaced the Experts Guiding U.S. Vaccines. Now What?

Update: 2025-06-12
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The Health and Human Services chief’s latest action on vaccinations is unprecedented, and quickly drew condemnation from medical groups who said his dismissal of the vaccine advisory committee put public health at risk. Here’s why the members of that committee are so important.


Guest:

Ron Balajadia, Hawaii Department of Health immunization branch chief

Dorit Reiss, University of California, San Francisco, professor of public health law 

Dr. Sarah Long, former member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and Drexel University, professor of pediatric infectious disease

Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Richard Hughes IV, attorney with Epstein Becker Green 

Per Fischer, CEO, MinervaX


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RFK Jr. Just Replaced the Experts Guiding U.S. Vaccines. Now What?

RFK Jr. Just Replaced the Experts Guiding U.S. Vaccines. Now What?