The ACIP is expected to vote on recommendations for some fall vaccines.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee is set to meet for the first time since Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed the entire panel and appointed his own hand-selected members.
Earlier this month, Kennedy removed all 17 sitting members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and appointed eight new members, some of whom have been critics of shots -- especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ACIP will meet on Wednesday, June 25, and Thursday, June 26, to review scientific data on some vaccines and vote on some fall recommendations. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is calling for the delay of the meeting, however, suggesting that a now smaller, less qualified panel shouldn't convene.
“Wednesday's meeting should not proceed with a relatively small panel, and no CDC Director in place to approve the panel's recommendations,” Cassidy said in a post on X.
According to a draft agenda published online, the committee will hold votes on maternal/pediatric respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines and RSV vaccines under the federal Vaccines for Children program.
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