A US panel stacked with figures sympathetic to the anti-vaccine movement will on Thursday take on federal immunization recommendations in a highly politicized meeting that could upend longstanding medical advice.

President Donald Trump’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., handpicked the voting members of the medical advisory group that is expected to consider whether to alter the standard childhood vaccine schedule — a move public health experts warn could have dire consequences.

The specific questions that will come to a vote during the two-day meeting in Atlanta aren’t public, but it’s expected discussion will include delaying childhood shots including against the highly contagious disease Hepatitis B.

The Covid-19 vaccine is also on the agenda, as well as the combination MMR

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