Robert F. Kennedy’s purge of a federal advisory committee tasked with developing recommendations on how to use vaccines includes members from two Connecticut universities.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is not a scientist or doctor, says you don’t need the COVID vaccine, but experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still put you in a high-risk group of people who ought to receive boosters.