Pregnant women and children may be losing access to more vaccines, in addition to COVID-19, due to new recommendations. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s newly beefed-up Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met Thursday to discuss whether or not they will continue to recommend vaccinations in young children for hepatitis B as well as the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella, known as the MMRV vaccine.

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention veteran Dr. Fiona Havers, who resigned in response to Kennedy’s dismantling of the CDC, saw the meeting as another anti-vaccine spectacle.

“This meeting, with a committee that is stacked with RFK Jr.'s handpicked appointees, many with a well-documented history of anti-vaccine views, was another opportunity for

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