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CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel now a “farce”—calls grow to scrap meeting

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Anti-vaccine advocate and US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 experts who sat on a revered federal vaccine panel and restocked it with eight dubious members.

A growing chorus of lawmakers, health experts, and public advocates are calling for the panel to be "dissolved" and remade with qualified members.

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