The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel, appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delivered a victory for vaccine skeptics in the Make America Healthy Again movement by voting to recommend the removal of influenza vaccines with trace amounts of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.

The seven members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whom Kennedy hired two weeks ago after firing the original members of the board, voted on Thursday to recommend that children, adults, and pregnant women no longer receive multi-dose influenza vaccines that contain thimerosal.