Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to overhaul a key committee on vaccine policy has left the country’s vaccine infrastructure “critically weakened,” former members of the group said in a piece published in JAMA on Monday.

The new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey found adults divided over the health secretary but with a bare majority viewing him favorably.

Among the eight people Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced would make up his new group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are an emergency physician who posted Islamophobic commentary on social media and two doctors who were paid to provide expert testimony in trials against a vaccine maker.

As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to overhaul the CDC and FDA, here are the vaccine schedules that experts recommend.

Offit has served on committees that advise the federal government on the use of vaccines. Earlier this week, Kennedy ignited controversy for dismissing all the members of one advising the CDC.

The American Public Health Association called Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s move to overhaul a vaccine advisory board a “coup” that will harm the health of the

A day after abruptly firing a key vaccine panel, RFK Jr. said he would reconstitute it with “highly credentialed" experts amid backlash.