By firing all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine panel, RFK Jr. has imperiled vaccine access in the US, critics say.

Democrats on the Senate Health Committee launched an investigation on Tuesday into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s firing of all members of a Centers for Disease

Burns' position was noted in an April memo from CDC chief of staff Matt Buzzelli that was obtained by MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD. MSNBC reported that Burns supported the anti-vaccine movement as a member of Republican congressional staffs in the 1990s.