ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - An advisory committee for the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to make recommendations this week on vaccines for COVID-19, hepatitis B and measles.

Just ahead of the meetings on Thursday and Friday, five new members have been named to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). It comes after the unprecedented removal of all 17 sitting members of the committee.

Several of their replacements by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have made unproven claims about vaccines.

Many former CDC employees say they have a number of concerns about the upcoming meetings, especially as the agency is in such a time of turmoil, between the shooting at the agency last month , their ousted leader Dr. S

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