At the first meeting of a controversial new group of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the committee announced new plans to study established vaccine guidelines.

A crucial government panel of vaccine advisors will hold its first meeting since Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed several vaccine critics to the group.  Kennedy removed and replaced members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices,

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine panel is adding new subcommittees to review the current childhood immunization schedule and examine shots that haven’t been studied in at least seven years,