The advisory committee makes recommendations to the CDC on what vaccines the American public should take each year.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday named a Maui children’s physician who used unapproved drugs to treat Covid to serve on a powerful federal advisory panel on vaccine policy.

Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist and pastor at Calvary Chapel South Maui, provided the livestock drug ivermectin and the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to prevent and treat the coronavirus during free house calls for Maui residents.

He and four others named Monday join the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a fraught moment in public health. In June, Kennedy fired all 17 sitting members of the panel that makes recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control

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