SCOTT DETROW, HOST:

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to change the country's vaccine policies. And during contentious meetings in Atlanta this week, vaccine advisers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began to do just that. The panel was handpicked by Kennedy. NPR health correspondent Pien Huang was at their two-day meeting and joins us now. Hi, Pien.

PIEN HUANG, BYLINE: Hey, Scott.

DETROW: What kind of changes did the advisors make?

HUANG: So they voted to narrow the recommendation on the COVID booster shot, and they also made a change in the childhood vaccine schedule, recommending against a measles and chickenpox combo shot for young children.

And while these changes weren't as drastic as some medical and public health experts h

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