{"id":69968,"date":"2026-03-25T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/us-left-without-functioning-vaccine-panel-as-adviser-says-drama-distracts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:57:01","slug":"us-left-without-functioning-vaccine-panel-as-adviser-says-drama-distracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/us-left-without-functioning-vaccine-panel-as-adviser-says-drama-distracts\/","title":{"rendered":"US left without functioning vaccine panel as adviser says \u2018drama distracts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after judge voided Kennedy\u2019s ACIP picks, leaving key flu, Covid and RSV vaccines in limbo<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amid upheaval to the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/vaccines\">vaccine<\/a> advisory committee Robert Malone, the former co-chair and controversial figure who has opposed vaccines, says he has been pushed out and will not be involved in any future decisions. The move comes after a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/16\/judge-blocks-rfk-jr-vaccine-policy-changes\">stayed the appointment<\/a> of 13 members of the advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP), essentially invalidating their roles on the committee and the decisions they have made.<\/p>\n<p>Those new advisers were all hand-picked by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a>, after he fired the previous 17 members of the ACIP in June \u2013 but the judge ruled they were unqualified and not selected properly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/mar\/25\/vaccines-kennedy-covid-rsv-flu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after judge voided Kennedy\u2019s ACIP picks, leaving key flu, Covid and RSV vaccines in limbo Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Amid upheaval to the US vaccine advisory committee Robert Malone, the former co-chair and controversial figure who has opposed vaccines, says he has &#8230; <a title=\"US left without functioning vaccine panel as adviser says \u2018drama distracts\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/us-left-without-functioning-vaccine-panel-as-adviser-says-drama-distracts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US left without functioning vaccine panel as adviser says \u2018drama distracts\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}