CDC purges career officials from oversight of vaccine committee
CBSN
Career officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention responsible for overseeing the agency's committee of outside vaccine experts have been removed from their role in the process, multiple CDC officials tell CBS News.
News of their removal comes the same week Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all the members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, known as ACIP, and replaced them with eight new picks that include close allies and COVID vaccine critics. The next meeting of the committee is coming up at the end of June.
The vaccine recommendations from the committee are closely watched by state and local authorities, health care providers and others because they are tied to several federal policies that enable access to the shots, including requirements for insurance coverage and programs for uninsured children.
