For the past few years, Spokane family physician Gretchen LaSalle has participated in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workgroup determining national RSV vaccine policy.

The MultiCare Rockwood Clinic physician has not heard from the federal agency since June.

“I’m not sure if I am part of that workgroup. No one has told me I’m not. I don’t know where that stands. I have not heard anything,” she said .

Within the CDC vaccine approval process, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meets several times each year to vote on vaccine recommendations that are ultimately approved by the agency as a whole.

LaSalle was not a member of ACIP. She served on one of the committee’s many workgroups that focus on specific vaccines. These subcommittees are made up of people from a

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