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- The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whose members were replaced earlier this month with individuals hand-picked by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will examine long-held childhood vaccines schedules.
- The newly constituted committee, meeting for the first time in Atlanta on Wednesday, will form two new work groups to review vaccine data and then provide recommendations at future ACIP meetings.
- ACIP Chair Martin Kulldorff said that one of the groups will focus on the cumulative impacts of currently recommended vaccines for children, as well as possible interactions from the jabs. The second will re-examine shots that haven’t been reviewed in over seven years. These include the hepatitis b, and measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccines.
- “This was supposed to be a regular practice of the ACIP, but it has not been done in a thorough and systematic way,” Kulldorff said, NBC News reported.
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