It took two years of vetting before Helen Chu was approved for her position on the CDC’s vaccine panel.
Dr. Helen Chu learned she had been fired in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The UW Medicine physician and professor had been serving on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), helping guide vaccine policy in the United States when Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a “clean sweep” of the advisory group.
Chu was on high alert after Kennedy’s appointment, knowing his skeptical stance on vaccines would paint a target on the 17-person group. But
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