RFK Jr. forced to withdraw charter that opened CDC panel to anti-vaccine quacks

小罗伯特·肯尼迪被迫撤回允许反疫苗“江湖郎中”进入疾控中心专家组的章程

A revised charter document for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) influential vaccine advisory committee has been withdrawn by the Health Department over an administrative error, according to a notice published in the Federal Register Tuesday. 根据周二在《联邦公报》上发布的一则通知，美国卫生部因行政失误，撤回了一份针对美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）极具影响力的疫苗咨询委员会的修订版章程文件。

The charter’s revisions under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have allowed Kennedy to appoint dubiously qualified anti-vaccine allies to advise the CDC. It also would have directed the CDC panel to focus on alleged vaccine injuries and risks and welcomed fringe groups and anti-vaccine organizations to participate in developing federal vaccine policy. 在持反疫苗立场的人类服务部部长小罗伯特·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）领导下，该章程的修订本本将允许肯尼迪任命资质存疑的反疫苗盟友为CDC提供咨询。此外，该章程还将引导CDC专家组聚焦于所谓的“疫苗伤害”和风险，并欢迎边缘团体和反疫苗组织参与制定联邦疫苗政策。

Kennedy’s move to reshape the CDC panel—the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP—came amid Kennedy’s many other attempts to undermine it, as well as a court order to undo that meddling. In June 2025, Kennedy summarily fired all 17 experts from ACIP and quickly replaced them with unvetted and unqualified anti-vaccine allies. 肯尼迪重塑CDC下属“免疫实践咨询委员会”（ACIP）的举动，正值他多次试图破坏该机构之际，同时也发生在一项要求撤销其干预行为的法院命令背景下。2025年6月，肯尼迪草率地解雇了ACIP的所有17名专家，并迅速以未经审查且不具备资格的反疫苗盟友取而代之。

Kennedy’s ACIP then held several meetings in which they aired anti-vaccine views and misinformation, allowed anti-vaccine activists to give unvetted presentations, and ultimately voted to remove longstanding, evidence-based federal vaccine recommendations based on anti-vaccine rhetoric. That includes the removal of a universal recommendation for a hepatitis B vaccine dose at birth, despite no evidence of any safety concerns or any benefit to delaying the dose. 随后，肯尼迪掌控下的ACIP召开了多次会议，会上散布反疫苗观点和虚假信息，允许反疫苗活动人士进行未经审查的陈述，并最终基于反疫苗言论投票废除了长期以来基于证据的联邦疫苗建议。这其中包括取消了关于新生儿接种乙肝疫苗的普遍建议，尽管目前没有任何证据表明该疫苗存在安全隐患，也没有证据显示推迟接种有任何益处。

Subsequent modeling studies found that the change will mean more infections, increases in liver cancers and deaths, as well as millions of dollars in healthcare costs. In January, Kennedy sidestepped ACIP entirely to overhaul the CDC’s vaccine schedule for children, slashing the number of recommended vaccinations from 17 to 11. 随后的模型研究发现，这一改变将导致更多的感染病例、肝癌发病率和死亡人数上升，并带来数百万美元的医疗成本。今年1月，肯尼迪完全绕过ACIP，对CDC的儿童疫苗接种计划进行了彻底改革，将建议接种的疫苗数量从17种削减至11种。

In March, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction to undo Kennedy’s changes, ruling that Kennedy likely violated federal regulations in unilaterally altering the CDC vaccine schedule and that the new ACIP members were unqualified—as outlined by the panel’s charter—nullifying all of their votes on federal vaccine recommendations. 3月，一名联邦法官发布了临时禁令，要求撤销肯尼迪的这些变更。法官裁定，肯尼迪单方面修改CDC疫苗接种计划的行为可能违反了联邦法规，且根据专家组章程，新任ACIP成员并不具备相应资格，因此他们对联邦疫苗建议所投的所有票均被裁定无效。

While the Health Department is working to appeal the injunction, Kennedy attempted to circumvent the judge’s ruling on the ACIP members by altering the committee’s charter to, among other things, allow for people without expertise in immunizations and public health to be members. But, for now, that effort, too, has been thwarted. According to the notice on Tuesday, the new charter has been withdrawn for not following a federal requirement on public notification. 尽管卫生部正努力对该禁令提出上诉，但肯尼迪试图通过修改委员会章程来规避法官关于ACIP成员资格的裁决，其中包括允许不具备免疫学和公共卫生专业知识的人员担任成员。然而，目前这一企图也已受挫。根据周二的通知，这份新章程因未遵循联邦关于公众告知的规定而被撤回。