A federal vaccine panel will meet this week for the second time since it was remade by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Typically a routine affair to update vaccine schedules and issue new recommendations, the committee’s meeting this Thursday and Friday could be particularly consequential for U.S. immunization policy.

Known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the panel will meet amid a leadership crisis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and rising alarm among physicians that Kennedy will sharply curtail vaccine access.

Already, Kennedy has overhauled ACIP, firing the 17 prior members of the panel and appointing seven hand-selected advisers in their place. At their first meeting, in June, the new panelists questioned use of CO

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