Vaccine Skeptics Just Scored a Big Win
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, accusing members of serving industry interests and never recommending against a vaccine. Their role, however, was advising on use for vaccines that the FDA already approved.
As RFK Jr. restaffs the committee with his own “nonpartisan” members, where does that leave vaccines and the state of American health?
Guest: Noel Brewer , Gillings Distinguished Professor in Public Health at the University of North Carolina.
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Podcast produced by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.
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