"The lawsuit, filed in federal court within the state of Massachusetts, notes that the CDC made its decision based on recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The plaintiffs in the case - which include the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, the American Public Health Association, and three unidentified individuals - accuse Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has repeatedly peddled disinformation about vaccines, of "packing" the board with appointees harboring anti-vaccine views."
""Kennedy did not pick people with strong, current expertise in vaccines," Dorit Reiss, a law professor at the University of California, San Francisco, told NPR shortly after new board members were selected, accurately predicting at the time that Kennedy was "setting up a committee that would be skeptical of vaccines, and possibly willing to implement an anti-vaccine agenda.""
CDC reduced the number of childhood vaccinations it recommends, prompting several public health groups to file a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts challenging that decision as not science-based and improperly decided. Plaintiffs include the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, the American Public Health Association, and three unidentified individuals. The complaint accuses Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of filling the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) with appointees who hold anti-vaccine views. Early last year Kennedy disbanded ACIP and replaced most members. One appointee, Robert Malone, promoted COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and unscientific remedies. Critics say the new panel lacks current vaccine expertise and may pursue an anti-vaccine agenda.
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