Meissner was previously listed in April as a consultant to the RSV vaccines work group for the CDC committee, before Kennedy fired its advisers.

The consists of scientists, public-health experts and physicians, including one criticized for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, conspiracy theories.

Rob Lucero says he wants to fill a leadership vacuum that he says both the Democratic and Republican parties are experiencing.

Staff who provide data to the vaccine panel have been pushed aside, according to health officials, raising doubts about the availability and cost of some vaccines this fall.

Kennedy announced he had fired all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee and would replace them with new members.

Offit has served on committees that advise the federal government on the use of vaccines. Earlier this week, Kennedy ignited controversy for dismissing all the members of one advising the CDC.

Everybody seems to want a piece of Bill Nye, the world's premiere science guy — including health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. When speaking with Men's Health, Nye showed his interviewer a very long and one-sided text chain from the antivaxxer in charge of our nation's healthcare.