In a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee decided to delay the shots for babies of mothers who test negative for the virus, reversing longstanding guidance.
Dr. Robert Malone, the panel’s vice chair, addressing the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to discuss childhood vaccine schedule, at the C.D.C. in Atlanta on Friday.
Advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appear poised to make consequential changes to the childhood vaccination schedule. Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter at The New York Times, explains how this change could affect vaccine accessibility.
After heated disagreements, the committee members, appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delayed the vote until Friday morning. It was the third time the vote had been postponed.
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