An influential committee that helps craft federal vaccine policy and recommendations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention begins a two-day meeting in Atlanta on Wednesday.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, often meets in obscurity, but was thrown into the spotlight two weeks ago when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. fired all 17 seated members of the panel and replaced them with a smaller selection of his own.
The committee meets over the objections of Senators Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair and former chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, who have both called for the meeting to be postponed over concerns about the new committee members.
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