Ping Huang

This is a panel that's been making recommendations on how vaccines should be used since 1964.

And back in June, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

dismissed all the previous members, and he replaced them with members who have shown that they are not, generally speaking, all that familiar with the details of vaccine policy or how this group shapes it.

At their last meeting in October, the committee's chairman said that they were rookies when they had to redo a vote.

That chairman was replaced just this week, and the new chair is Dr. Kirk Milhone.

He's a pediatric cardiologist and a fellow with the Independent Medical Alliance, who

which is a group that still recommends people use drugs like ivermectin to treat COVID, even though studies have shown it does not work.

So what will be covered in this meeting?

So a few things.

First of all, the group is going to be voting on whether to drop the recommendation that hepatitis B vaccines be given to babies at birth.

This is a policy that's been in effect for more than 30 years.

And it's something that came up at the last meeting where some members wanted to push the vaccine back to when kids are older and others said it would be a mistake.

Now, since that meeting, independent researchers have found that delaying the hep B vaccine by even a couple of months

could lead to hundreds of preventable deaths each year.

That's from liver cancers and health problems that are prevented by getting this $15 vaccine.

Also, they're going to be discussing the overall vaccine schedule, which is who gets which vaccines and when, and also what goes into vaccines.

What are their concerns about the vaccine schedule?

So Milhone, the new committee chair, told the Washington Post that they're going to be looking into whether

Vaccines are causing asthma, eczema, and other autoimmune diseases in children.

This is even though large long-term studies have found no evidence for this.