# CDC Vaccine Panel too Meet Amidst Shifting COVID-19 Policy
A federal vaccine panel recently remade by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will meet in September to discuss and perhaps vote on recommendations for vaccines against COVID-19, hepatitis B and measles.
According to a federal notice posted thursday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet Sept. 18 and 19. A detailed agenda is not yet available, but the notice mentions that vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus may also be discussed.
The anticipated meeting will be the second by the reconstituted ACIP since kennedy fired all 17 of its prior members and replaced them with seven hand-picked advisers. In the first, the new panelists appeared skeptical of evidence supporting COVID shots’ safety and efficacy, and debated a controversial preservative that’s long been a target of vaccine skeptics despite data showing it to be generally safe.
As then, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken further steps to limit the availability of COVID vaccines, moving to revoke emergency authorizations that enabled wider groups of people, especially children, to access the shots.The Food and Drug Administration, which he oversees, also narrowed eligibility for the vaccines in approving boosters reformulated to targeting a circulating coronavirus strain.
Vaccines from