It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. One of the members of the committee, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals,

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday that he is dismissing all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a key panel that guides national vaccine policy.