What Is ACIP? Inside the CDC Vaccine Panel in the National Spotlight

A once-obscure federal committee is now at the center of a political firestorm. This week the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which has helped guide national vaccine policy since the 1960s, will hold its first meeting since all 17 of its members were abruptly dismissed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The move—and the appointment of new members known for controversial views—has…