The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

The cancellation of the FDA meeting, alongside a similar postponement last week of a meeting of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisors, is adding to the growing concern among scientists and public health advocates that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

The back-to-back high-level disruptions in vaccine policy under Robert F. Kennedy Jr comes as the U.S. records its first death from measles since 2015.

A meeting of a committee which advises the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy has been canceled, a committee member told Reuters, the second such disruption to a federal vaccine advisory panel since Robert F.

The vaccine meeting canceled by the FDA is the second federal vaccine panel meeting Trump administration officials have canceled since RFK Jr. took over HHS.

A seminal, annual meeting updating advisers on next season’s influenza vaccines was abruptly canceled by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee was slated to meet on March 13,