Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s revamped vaccine advisory panel has already suffered a setback after one of his handpicked members quit ahead of the group’s first major meeting. Dr. Michael Ross, one of the eight newly appointed panelists,

Rep. Kim Schrier described babies who “turned blue” from whooping cough and ripped the HHS secretary for lying to parents about the safety of vaccines.

The extraordinary effort to create a parallel system of recommending and perhaps even providing vaccines faces major challenges.