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Federal judge halts HHS, ACIP vaccine decisions: What to know
There has been a whirlwind of activity surrounding federal vaccine policy over the past few weeks and especially the past two days. The most important and impactful recent update is the decision from a federal judge Monday that temporarily stayed multiple decisions made by HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr and the CDC’s Advisory Committee on…
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Tips to boost your coverage of Kennedy’s vaccine panel dismissals
The public health community is reeling after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Monday. The initial reporting has been excellent in explaining what ACIP does — make recommendations for vaccine policy that the CDC director nearly always formally adopts without changes. But…
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