The members of a federal vaccine advisory committee, who were removed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are suggesting alternatives to vaccine policy in the U.S. because the panel has "lost credibility.

All 17 experts from the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices who were replaced last month by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the health secretary's new picks "inexperienced and biased."

The 17 advisers fired last month by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged alternatives to ACIP be organized to limit further degradation in vaccine guidelines.