{"id":9224,"date":"2025-04-16T09:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9224"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:58:34","slug":"key-vaccine-committee-meets-for-the-first-time-under-robert-f-kennedy-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/16\/key-vaccine-committee-meets-for-the-first-time-under-robert-f-kennedy-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Key vaccine committee meets for the first time under Robert F. Kennedy Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vaccines-cdc-acip-kennedy-d9777cba947f5f52705af04d95e5f7fa\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A key vaccine advisory committee met for the first time under new U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading voice in the U.S.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/robert-f-kennedy-measles-vaccine-rhetoric-19552867102b19e6df3ff14ed5030263\">anti-vaccine movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s meeting was, to some extent, business as usual, though with a major question looming: Who would evaluate the committee\u2019s recommendations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices\u2019 two-day meeting took up vaccine policy questions that had been put on hold when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vaccines-cdc-rfk-trump-acip-74ad20e0a5430bfd6b48d35900c34d13\">abruptly postponed<\/a>&nbsp;the panel\u2019s February meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt will be striking\u201d if the meeting is routine, given \u201csignals and alarms\u201d that suggest changes and perhaps reductions in federal vaccination efforts, said Jason Schwartz, a Yale University health policy researcher who studies government health agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Tuesday\u2019s meeting started fairly routine, with most members joining through a webcast. They discussed an mpox vaccine and how the winter flu and COVID-19 seasons were going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vaccines-cdc-acip-kennedy-d9777cba947f5f52705af04d95e5f7fa\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP A key vaccine advisory committee met for the first time under new U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading voice in the U.S.&nbsp;anti-vaccine movement. Tuesday\u2019s meeting was, to some extent, business as usual, though with a major question looming: Who would evaluate the committee\u2019s recommendations? The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices\u2019 two-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9225,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions\/9225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}