RFK Jr. forced to withdraw charter that opened CDC panel to anti-vaccine quacks

Key points

• A revised charter document for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s influential vaccine advisory committee has been withdrawn by the Health Department over an administrative error, according to a notice published in the Federal Register Tuesday.
• The charter’s revisions under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F.
• Kennedy Jr.
• would have allowed Kennedy to appoint dubiously qualified anti-vaccine allies to advise the CDC.
• It also would have directed the CDC panel to focus on alleged vaccine injuries and risks and welcomed fringe groups and anti-vaccine organizations to participate in developing federal vaccine policy.