NEW YORK (AP) — All 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel published an essay Monday decrying “destabilizing decisions” made by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that could lead to more preventable disease spread.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced last week that he had removed every member of an independent panel key to vaccine policy and access in America. After removing the 17 members of the panel, Kennedy announced eight new names, many of whom have been skeptical of vaccines.

Fiona Havers, who oversees CDC respiratory virus data, told colleagues she no longer had confidence the data would be used objectively to set vaccine policy.

The 17 members of a federal vaccine advisory committee, who were ousted last week, argued their abrupt dismissal has "left the U.S. vaccine program critically weakened." The group, speaking collectively for the first time since Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency's network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orders to change the agency's vaccine recommendations and the committee that makes them.

A slight majority of Americans questioned — 51 percent — view Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. favorably, according to an NBC News poll released on Monday.  Slightly fewer

Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s relationship in a new series called American Love Story. Sarah Pidgeon and Paul Kelly will star as the couple. The show is set to drop in February 2026. Famed ’90s couple John F.

Kennedy Jr. is back in the headlines, more than a quarter-century after his death, with the first look of the upcoming TV show American Love Story, which will dramatize his romance with wife Carolyn Bessette.