Susan Monarez has been acting chief at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since January. Her nomination came after David Weldon withdrew.

Anti-vaccine advocate and health secretary for the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ordered the nonprofit he once chaired to delete a webpage that mimicked the design of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention while wrongly linking vaccines to autism. The New York Times earlier reported on the development.

The CDC has rescheduled a key advisory committee meeting on vaccine experts to April following a delay in February, a week after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as the Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS).