The public health world is nervously bracing for drastic changes to childhood immunization schedules, which would further limit access to vaccines, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meets Thursday and Friday.

The questions the panel will vote on have not been disclosed, but speculation has run high that the panel will endorse drastic changes to the current immunization recommendations, including the guidance to immunize newborns against hepatitis B. It will also discuss the MMRV and COVID-19 vaccines.

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 sitting members of ACIP and replaced them with his choices, including several known vaccine critics. Just days before t

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