Fiona Havers, who oversees CDC respiratory virus data, told colleagues she no longer had confidence the data would be used objectively to set vaccine policy.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of health and human services, dismissed all 17 members that make up a key committee advising the US government on vaccine safety and policy, saying that removing the entire panel was the only way to restore public confidence in vaccine science.

A Seattle infectious disease doctor, whose work was pivotal early in the COVID pandemic, shares more on her experience with the country's top vaccine advisory group. “We look at the data and we make decisions based on the data.