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"The Health Department is quietly laying the groundwork to revive a vaccine advisory committee whose membership and decisions were frozen last month by a federal judge.

A document renewing the committee’s charter for the next two years, and scheduled to be published on Monday in the Federal Register, enshrines changes that would allow Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to nominate members of his choice."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/health/kennedy-vaccine-advisers-acip.html

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H.H.S. Takes a First Step Toward Restoring Vaccine Advisory Committee

A federal judge last month questioned the legitimacy of the panel and overturned its recent work. A notice suggests that it may be revived on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s terms.

The New York Times