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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday added five new members to a key government vaccine panel that he purged in June.

The move comes before a critical meeting of the committee , called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, scheduled for Thursday and Friday. The panel will review data and make recommendations on vaccines for Covid-19 and Hepatitis B, as well as the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella shot, ahead of the fall and winter season.

So, who are the new advisors? They include an infectious disease expert who has pushed back on Covi

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