The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced that all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) have been dismissed.

According to an announcement, new members will be selected, and candidates are already being considered. The goal of this action is to reinstate trust in vaccines and “ensure that government scientific activities are informed by the most credible, reliable, and impartial scientific evidence available.” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said the following regarding the action: “A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science.”