“It was our goal to fill every vacancy on every [federal advisory committee] the department has, with particular focus on ones like ACIP where maintenance of our scientific expertise was critical.

Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsized effect on Americans’ protection against ...

Anindita N. Issa, M.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues issued the ACIP-approved "Recommended Immunization Schedule for Children and Adolescents Ages 18 Years or Younger, United States ...

The CDC Director must accept ACIP’s recommendation in order for a recommended vaccine to be added to these schedules. Among recent ACIP recommendations, we find that the unanimous recommendation on ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — an influential group of clinicians and scientists — recommends who should get vaccines to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ...

Changes to both schedules include new and updated recommendations for COVID-19 vaccine, change to trivalent influenza vaccines. HealthDay News — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ...

ACIP steered the U.S. toward giving a second dose of the MMR vaccine to children before elementary school, rather than delaying it until early adolescence, in order to optimally protect kids from ...