What to know before Kennedy's new vaccine advisers meet for first time

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U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers began their first meeting Wednesday under intense scrutiny from medical experts worried about Americans’ access to lifesaving shots.

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00:00We're in Atlanta at CDC headquarters for a meeting this week of this Vaccine Advisory

00:05Committee.

00:06This is a group that's been around for more than 60 years.

00:09They advise the government and the public about what vaccines to get and when to get

00:13them.

00:14But things are a little different this meeting.

00:16There's a new U.S. Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's been considered a leading

00:21voice in the anti-vaccine movement, and he replaced the members of the ACIP Committee.

00:28A roster that includes some people who have been skeptical of vaccines and critical of

00:33COVID-19 vaccines in particular.

00:37This is a potential crossroads in how the public regards vaccines, who it looks to to take advice

00:45on vaccines, what it believes about the safety of vaccines and the protection that they offer.

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