Overview
- The Federal Register notice posted Wednesday sets an ACIP meeting for March 18–19 to examine COVID-19 vaccine injuries, long COVID, and recommendation methodology, with possible votes on guidance.
- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. installed the current panel after dismissing all prior ACIP members last year.
- The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has withdrawn as an ACIP liaison, citing changes it says undermine scientific integrity and evidence-based policy.
- Public-health leader Michael Osterholm criticized some members for claims about COVID-19 vaccine harms that he says lack verifiable support or mischaracterize the literature.
- Major medical groups have gone to court to block new pediatric vaccine guidance and halt the next ACIP meeting, while reported internal FDA findings on child deaths remain unpublished.