Five new members named to influential CDC vaccine advisory committee days ahead of key meeting

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is tasked with reviewing the latest science on vaccines and then making recommendations to the CDC on how they should be used. Brynn Anderson/AP/File

Five new members have been named to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee, the US Department of Health and Human Services said Monday, just days ahead of a key meeting about vaccines for Covid-19 and other diseases.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been preparing to appoint as many as seven new members for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which is tasked with reviewing the latest science on vaccines and then making recommendations to the CDC on how they should be used.

The new members are Dr. Catherine Stein, an epidemiolog