The Brief

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is set to meet Thursday and Friday to recommend how already-approved vaccines should be used.

Those vaccines include COVID-19, hepatitis B and measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox.

Doctors and medical groups have raised concerns in the months since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the entire panel and replaced it with vaccine skeptics.

A new vaccine advisory committee appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will meet Thursday for a two-day session to review guidelines for shots against COVID-19, hepatitis B and chickenpox.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices makes recommendations to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how already-approved vaccines should be u

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