A panel of experts that advise American centers for disease control and prevention on the vaccine policy will not be determined before the next week.
The Advisory Committee on vaccination practices (ACIP) was slated to meet in Atlanta from 26 to 28 February – Robert F. The first meeting after Kennedy Junior was sworn in as Health and Human Services Secretary.
HHS Director Andrew Nixon confirmed on Thursday that the meeting was postponed, and the ACIP meeting website also reflected it. Nixon did not answer a follow -up question about the date of a new meeting. The group meets three times a year, usually in February, June and October.
Kennedy was important for ACIP during its confirmation process, and ACIP is in a list of federal advisory committees, according to an executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Wednesday, which is being reviewed.
Kennedy also told the employees of human and human service this week that he vowed to examine the childhood vaccine schedule, which prevents measles, polio and other dangerous diseases.
The advisory committee on vaccination practices advises the CDC Director how to use vaccines approved by the FDA; For example, recommending which groups of people should get shots and when. Its decisions are not binding, although the directors of the agency almost always follow them.
ACIP members include several academics, a chief medical officer of a community health center, a state public health higher and owner of a family medical practice. A member of a committee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity not to print a name for fear of vengeance, said that he was informed about the stay of the meeting from the news reports.
Now, according to the Postpone meeting agenda, which was still available online till Thursday afternoon, the subjects included a new meningitis vaccine, a vaccine to prevent a mosquito-borne disease, which is called chikungunia, and RSV and Influenza vaccines Is.
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