CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago-area medical experts are reacting after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. purged the entire Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel responsible for recommending vaccines.

Local doctors, especially pediatricians, are concerned about the return of many childhood diseases.

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Pediatricians at Northwestern Children's Practice have so much confidence in the safety and effectiveness of vaccines the Chicago practice only allows patients who are vaccinated.

"We feel that it is the most important thing we do to keep kids healthy," said Dr. Scott Goldstein, with Northwestern Children's Practice.

Goldstein says throughout his career he has trusted the recommendations from the CDC's 17-member vaccine advi

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