<p>Health secretary’s effort to alter makeup of ACIP panel means no new recommendations coming – even as new vaccines are approved</p><p>US vaccine recommendations are in limbo, access to vaccines is suffering, and some of the uncertainty may continue for years following major blows to vaccination by the Trump administration, experts say.</p><p>Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has made sweeping changes to vaccination policy, cutting childhood immunization recommendations by a third and replacing experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) with his own handpicked allies.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/vaccines-rfk-jr">Continue reading...</a>
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‘It’s a mess right now’: RFK’s sweeping changes place new vaccines in limbo
<p>Health secretary’s effort to alter makeup of ACIP panel means no new recommendations coming – even as new vaccines are approved</p><p>US vaccine recommendations are in limbo, access to vaccines is suffering, and some of the uncertainty may continue for years following major blows to vaccination by the Trump administration, experts say.</p><p>Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has made sweeping changes to vaccination policy, cutting childhood immunization recommendations by a third and replacing experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) with his own handpicked allies.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/vaccines-rfk-jr">Continue reading...</a>