JUNE 24, 2025

Lacking the proper expertise

Sen. Cassidy: ACIP Should Not Meet, Yet

By Marie Rosenthal, MS

Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.) said the regularly scheduled Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) June meeting should be delayed because its members “do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology” and therefore are not prepared to offer recommendations for the country’s vaccination program.  

On June 9, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he had dismissed all 17