U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy is calling for a meeting of the Advisory Council on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, which is scheduled for Wednesday at CDC headquarters, to be postponed.

Louisiana U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy is questioning the decision to fire every member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The ACIP makes ...

Cassidy voted to confirm Kennedy as the Health and Human Services Secretary, a decision after he said Kennedy told him he would not shake up the ACIP, among other commitments related to vaccines.

Cassidy invited "robust and transparent scientific discussion" as long as it is "rooted in evidence and understanding." He added that the ACIP meeting should be delayed until the panel is "fully ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., on Monday criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s picks for a key federal vaccine advisory committee and called for the group’s next ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), called for this week's planned meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to be delayed, saying its new panel picked by HHS Secretary ...

"What I told Senator Cassidy is that I would allow him to put one of his candidates on, which we're going to do," he said of the ACIP panel.

Firing ACIP members is far from the first time Kennedy has flouted Cassidy's guardrails. Earlier this month, Kennedy bypassed ACIP entirely when he declared pregnant women and healthy children don ...

Cassidy expressed concerns Monday on X about the newly appointed members. “Although the appointees to ACIP have scientific credentials, many do not have significant experience studying ...

Cassidy, a medical doctor who is the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, was a key vote in Kennedy’s confirmation. He said he voted for Kennedy after Kennedy made a ...