Meeting of key CDC vaccine advisory panel, under scrutiny by RFK Jr., is postponed
Source: STAT
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Meeting of key CDC vaccine advisory panel, under scrutiny by RFK Jr., is postponed
Official says the session will be rescheduled, but provides no details
By Helen Branswell Feb. 20, 2025
Senior Writer, Infectious Diseases
A committee of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy — a group believed to be in the crosshairs of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — will not meet for its regularly scheduled February meeting, a senior HHS official confirmed Thursday.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was to meet from Feb. 26 to 28, its first gathering since the Trump administration took office. That will not happen, Andrew Nixon, the HHS director of communications, told STAT in an email. Later on Thursday, a notice of the postponement was posted on the ACIP’s homepage.
Nixon did not directly answer STAT’s query of when the meeting would be held instead, saying only that it is “upcoming.”
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