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A vaccine panel appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted against recommending influenza vaccinations containing the preservative thimerosal, an agent that Kennedy himself and many anti-vaccination activists have long advocated against.

Move comes after health secretary replaced advisory board with ideological allies and several vaccine skeptics

In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that have cast doubt on their safety and on the objectivity of long-standing processes established to evaluate them.

The Trump administration's vaccine advisers are bringing up an old flu-shot debate: Whether it's time to wipe out the last small fraction of those vaccines that contain a controversial preservative

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s newly reconstituted vaccine advisory panel is facing criticism from medical experts and former federal officials after its first meeting strayed sharply from established scientific review norms.

The vaccine advisory panel will vote on whether to ban a preservative called thimerosal

U.S. health officials have expanded warnings about a rare heart side effect associated with the two leading COVID-19 vaccines

The announcement from Robert F Kennedy Jr comes as his controversial CDC vaccine panel meets for the first time.