WASHINGTON (The Hill) – Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he is removing every member of the independent panel advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines, an unprecedented escalation in his quest to reshape the agency.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed released Monday, Kennedy said the move was necessary to restore faith in vaccines.

“A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science,” Kennedy wrote.

“The public must know that unbiased science—evaluated through a transparent process and insulated from conflicts of interest—guides the recommendations of our health agencies,” Kennedy said in a subsequent statement.

Kennedy said removing every member of the panel will give the Trump administration an opportunity

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