Local public health officials across the country worry this week’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meeting on vaccines could lead to lower vaccination rates and access.

The CDC’s Advisory Council on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, meets Thursday and Friday with several discussion topics on the agenda – including the childhood immunization schedule and the hepatitis B vaccine .

Dr. Philip Huang, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, said it’s hard to know the effect this meeting could have on access.

“It really depends on…what wording ACIP makes and then that interpretation of CDC or how payers, or insurers then respond to that,” Huang said during a webinar hosted by the Big Cities Health Coalition – a group of health officials from the largest cities in th

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