Nearly four months after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention altered its recommendations for COVID-19 vaccinations, the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week to vote on a new round of vaccine policies.

In June, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 of the panel’s members. Here is a closer look at the new ACIP panel and what it could decide when it meets virtually Thursday and Friday.

What is the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices?

Also known as the ACIP, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is a federal committee of outside advisers that provides vaccine recommendations to the CDC. The committee’s members meet every quarter to look at new scientific data and clinical trials for vac

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