Five new members have been named to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Monday, just days ahead of a key meeting about vaccines for COVID-19 and other diseases.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been preparing to appoint as many as seven new members for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which is tasked with reviewing the latest science on vaccines and then making recommendations to the CDC on how they should be used. Latest Forecast

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The new members are Dr. Catherine Stein, an epidemiologist and professor at Case Western Reserve University; Dr. Evelyn Griffin, an obstetrician-gynecologist from Baton Rouge, Louisi

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