House Democrats demand answers from CDC over recent changes to vaccine advisory panel
Source: ABC News
July 10, 2025, 9:14 AM
House Democrats on the Oversight Committee are calling for an urgent briefing with staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), demanding answers over recent moves that have taken place among the agency's vaccine advisory panel, ABC News can exclusively report.
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia and Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Ranking Member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi sent a letter on Thursday morning to CDC chief of staff Matthew Buzzelli, expressing concern over the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
Recently, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 sitting members of the ACIP and replaced them with hand-selected members, some of whom have expressed vaccine-skeptic views.
During the first meeting with the new members a few weeks later, the ACIP refused to recommend certain flu vaccines with thimerosal, said it would be examining the child immunization schedule -- including whether babies needed to receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth -- and heard a presentation from "the former president of Secretary Kennedy's anti-vaccine organization," according to a copy of the letter viewed by ABC News.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/house-democrats-demand-answers-cdc-recent-vaccine-advisory/story?id=123638406
Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-07-10.rg-rk-to-cdc-re-acip-and-vaccines.pdf
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They don't give a crap about no stinking letters. Or courts. Or laws.