In June of 2025, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—a vital panel of experts that advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that reviewed vaccine information and data and then made recommendations on who should be eligible to receive certain vaccines and whether insurers should cover them (Constantino, 2025). This was just the opening salvo fired by politically inspired voices within the Trump Administration determined to dismantle nearly 100 years of progress in the global fight against preventable, crippling, and often fatal diseases.