As vaccine policy uncertainty reaches a new level in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC’s) team of vaccine advisors is set to deliberate later this week on childhood im | The CDC's vaccine advisory committee will meet later this week with a newly promoted chairman in outspoken mRNA critic Kirk Milhoan,

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may vote this week to make a major change to the childhood vaccine schedule, potentially delaying a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine given to newborns by weeks or even years.

The shake-up that resulted in Kirk Milhoan, MD, PhD, leading the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has stirred concern among public health experts ahead of this week's pivotal discussion and vote on the hepatitis B vaccine birth-dose recommendation.

This week's meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will be led by Kirk Milhoan, a physician and pastor who recently claimed that COVID-19 vaccines contained a contamination that causes cancer.

Comments by President Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and some panelists suggest the committee is likely to delay hepatitis B shots and discuss revising the use of other vaccines.

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Kirk Milhoan has claimed without evidence that the covid-19 shots caused spikes in cancer and miscarriages. Now he's helping shape the country's vaccine policy.

A senior Food and Drug Administration official on Friday said the agency will change its vaccine approval process, alleging that Covid-19 vaccination resulted in the deaths of 10 children.