Kennedy said that removing all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel was "necessary to reestablish public confidence ...

It is the panel's first meeting with Kennedy's newly appointed members, many of whom are well-known vaccine critics.

Former members of the ACIP are responding to their recent ousting by Robert F. Kennedy Jr in an editorial published in JAMA.

A few of the new members Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed to the federal panel have promoted misinformation about vaccines and public health.