A key vaccine advisory panel tasked with making vaccine recommendations has been left half-staffed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), leaving the committee without a quorum for their upcoming meeting on vaccines.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is a group of 15 medical and public health experts who vote on vaccine recommendations and provide guidance to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and HHS on which licensed vaccines should be used to control diseases and their appropriate use.
