The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is scheduled to meet this week to discuss hepatitis B immunization and the childhood vaccine schedule.

It’s one of the most influential committees for the country’s health, but this year it’s also a hotbed of controversy.

“It looks as though the current committee in its current function is losing its credibility,” Vanderbilt University Medical Center professor of preventive medicine Dr. William Schaffner said.

Recommendations from the vaccine advisory committee are typically followed by the CDC so they are important when it comes to what vaccines people around the country take.

This fall, in a move slammed by several doctors’ groups, the panel did not recommend COVID-19 vaccinations, instead m

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