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On Point | Podcast

A former CDC vaccine adviser has words for RFK Jr.

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Last month, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired an influential committee of vaccine advisers to the CDC. What that decision could mean for vaccines and America’s public health.

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This is On Point. I'm Megyn Chakrabardi.

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On June 9th, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

1:22.4

announced a significant change to the nation's system of public health.

1:35.2

Quote, today we are taking a bold step in restoring public trust by totally reconstituting the advisory committee for immunization practices, or ASIP, he wrote in the Wall Street Journal.

1:41.4

Quote, we are retiring the 17 current members of the committee, end quote.

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Well, for more than 60 years, the ASIP's statutory mandate has been to provide the U.S.

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