WASHINGTON — At least one member of a committee that advises the federal government on its vaccine injury compensation program has had her term prematurely ended, potentially foreshadowing further changes to the federal apparatus that reviews vaccine injuries and compensates patients.
Veronica McNally, an attorney who is also director of trial advocacy at Michigan State University, received an email on Tuesday from the Department of Health and Human Services, telling her she’d been removed from the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccinations (ACCV), Andie Poole, a spokesperson for McNally, confirmed to STAT.
According to Poole, the email sent to McNally read, in part: “We are grateful for the valuable contributions you and your fellow members have made.” McNally was serving a three-year term on the ACCV that was slated to run through December 2027.
