(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will reschedule a vaccine panel meeting that was planned for later this month, according to the health agency’s website.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting was previously scheduled for October 22 and 23. The CDC has not indicated when a future meeting will take place.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time anti-vaccine activist, fired all 17 members of the committee of outside vaccine experts earlier this year and replaced them with his own hand-picked nominees.

The agenda for the meeting is not yet clear, but acting CDC head Jim O’Neill earlier this week called for the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine to be broken up into three separate shots, in line with President Donald Trump

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