U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.

A newly posted agenda for next week’s meeting of the just-appointed group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a discussion and vote on thimerosal in flu vaccines,

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts will vote on shots for respiratory syncytial virus and influenza at a meeting scheduled for June 25 and 26, according to the agency's website.