The CDC will delay an upcoming meeting of its vaccine advisory committee to March after a lawsuit challenging recent changes to the panel under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
The meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) which was previously set to take place from Feb. 26 to 26, will now be held at some point in mid-March, the person said. An exact date for the meeting is not finalized yet, according to the person.
The CDC, or its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, declined to respond to Bloomberg’s requests for comment.
The report comes after several leading medical groups urged a federal judge in Boston on Friday to bar the CDC from holding its next ACIP meeting, citing, among other things, RFK Jr.’s decision to handpick the committee members last year.