Delayed vaccine committee meeting causes uncertainty about vaccine policy plans.

The meeting for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has been postponed. This committee, which advises the CDC on vaccines, was supposed to meet from February 26th to 28th. This would have been the first meeting since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the Health and Human Services secretary.

Andrew Nixon, the HHS director of communications, confirmed the postponement but did not give a new date. The ACIP usually meets three times a year, in February, June, and October.

Kennedy has been critical of the ACIP and wants to review it, along with other federal advisory committees. He has also said he will look into the childhood vaccine schedule, which protects against diseases like measles and polio.

The ACIP gives advice to the CDC director on how to use approved vaccines, like who should get them and when. While the CDC director doesn't have to follow their advice, they almost always do.

The ACIP is made up of different experts, including doctors and professors. The meeting agenda, which was still available online, included topics like new vaccines for meningitis and chikungunya.