The chairman of the Senate’s health panel on Aug. 28 said that the next meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers should be postponed.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting, slated to take place on Sept. 18 and Sept. 19, “should not occur until significant oversight has been conducted,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said in a statement.
“If the meeting proceeds, any recommendations made should be rejected as lacking legitimacy given the seriousness of the allegations and the current turmoil in CDC leadership,” he added.
He cited allegations against ACIP members.
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