WASHINGTON ― Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is perhaps best known for his long history of peddling anti-vaccine misinformation, announced Monday that he’s removing all members of a committee tasked with advising the U.S. government on vaccines.

Kennedy dropped the news in a Wall Street Journal op-ed , disclosing plans to retire all 17 current members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices . The panel, composed of medical and public health experts who don’t work for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, evaluates the safety, efficacy and clinical need of vaccines to combat the spread of illnesses.

HHS intends to replace the panel with “new members currently under consideration” by the Trump administration, citing concerns

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