Kennedy's vaccine committee plans to vote on COVID-19, hepatitis B and chickenpox shots

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FILE - Demonstrators rally for support of the CDC during a meeting of the Advisory Committee in Immunization Practices, June 25, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

NEW YORK – Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisory committee meets this week, with votes expected on whether to change recommendations on shots against COVID-19, hepatitis B and chickenpox.

The exact questions to be voted on Thursday and Friday in Atlanta are unclear. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to questions seeking details to a newly posted agenda .

But some public health experts are worried that the votes will — at a minimum — raise unwarranted new questions about va