Five things to watch at this week’s meeting of CDC vaccine advisers

A group of advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to recommend changes to the agency's vaccine schedule for children. Anadolu/Getty Images

A group of advisers selected by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to make recommendations on the use of vaccines in the United States will meet Thursday and Friday, and they are expected to make changes to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s childhood vaccine schedule.

In testimony before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Wednesday, Dr. Susan Monarez, who was recently ousted as CDC director, said that part of the reason for her removal was her refusal to rubber-stamp recommendations made by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practic