Last month’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention responsible for issuing vaccine recommendations, was unlike any other.

The new ACIP, convened by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after firing all 17 previous members, seemed to be floundering as they grasped the level of responsibility required to run America’s vaccine policy. They made decisions, then unmade them the next day, and then, suddenly, decided to postpone significant and controversial vaccine changes that they had been touting.

When Kennedy remade ACIP in his image in June, he told reporters that a “clean sweep” was necessary to “re-establish public confidence in vaccine science.” This ACIP meeting did anyth

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