A group of advisers selected by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to make recommendations on the use of vaccines in the United States will meet Thursday and Friday, and they are expected to make changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s childhood vaccine schedule.

In testimony before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Wednesday, Dr. Susan Monarez, who was recently ousted as CDC director, said that part of the reason for her removal was her refusal to rubber-stamp recommendations made by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP.

Monarez said Kennedy wanted her to pledge to sign off on those recommendations even before they were made.

“He said that the childhood vaccine schedule would be ch

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