WASHINGTON – As several top leaders of the CDC quit in protest over actions by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy called Thursday for a key panel on vaccines to halt.

As chair of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, or HELP, Cassidy called for Kennedy’s Department of Health & Human Services to “indefinitely postpone” the meeting that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, on who should take what vaccines when.

The civilian panel called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, was scheduled to meet again on Sept. 18.

Kennedy in June forced the retirement of all 17 ACIP members, made up of physicians and scientists knowledgeable about vaccinations, and named eight new members — including some who

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