Department of Pediatrics

RFK Jr. overhauled the CDC’s vaccine panel. Here’s what it does and why it matters

Written by National Public Radio (NPR) | June 13, 2025

Sean O’Leary, chair of the Committee on Infectious Diseases for the American Academy of Pediatrics, calls the changes to ACIP a “disaster.” “Imagine if you took all the air traffic controllers in the U.S. and just fired them and you replaced them with people that not only didn’t really know how to be air traffic controllers, but several of them didn’t even believe in flying,” he says.