The federal government is recommending flu vaccines remove the preservative thimerosal after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday officially adopted the recommendation of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel.

The move follows a 5-1-1 vote by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice during its June meeting. The meeting was the first for the newly remade iteration of the panel, after Kennedy fired all its previous members and handpicked their replacements.

The panel’s vote came after a presentation against thimerosal by Lyn Redwood, the former leader of Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group founded by Kennedy.

Redwood was recently........

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