A New Level of Vaccine Purgatory
The Trump administration likely broke the law, the judge’s 45-page decision argued, when it dismissed and abruptly reconstituted the CDC’s expert vaccine-advisory panel last June, stacking the committee with members who have aggressively questioned the safety of vaccines. Top health officials also probably acted illegally, the ruling said, when they made sweeping alterations to the nation’s childhood-immunization schedule in January, without the input of their own, remade panel.
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