RFK Jr. Says He Won’t Replace Fired Vaccine Committee Members With ‘Anti-Vaxxers’

The HHS secretary alleged the committee’s now-former members had too many conflicts of interest.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he won’t appoint “anti-vaxxers” to replace all the members of the vaccine recommendation committee he fired earlier this week.

“This has been a long time coming,” Kennedy told reporters of the committee shake-up.

During a press appearance with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Kennedy described the new committee appointees, none of whom have been announced, as “credentialed scientists, highly credentialed physicians” who will use “evidence-based medicine” when deciding which vaccines to recommend.