# @forbes on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-09-17T13:30:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Forbes (@Forbes) — https://gondola.cc/Forbes

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The #CDC’s immunization advisory committee—whose membership Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. purged in June and replaced with people more aligned with his anti-vaccine views—is slated to meet this week, starting on Thursday. 

On the agenda, a topic crucial to the health of the country and its pharma industry: childhood #vaccinations, specifically those that protect against hepatitis B, measles and chickenpox, as well as COVID-19.

Typically meetings of this committee, known by its acronym ACIP, are straightforward and off the public’s radar, but since 1964 they’ve served a vital role in setting immunization recommendations and schedules to serve public #health. 

States generally follow this guidance in setting #vaccine mandates for schools, while insurers typically follow it in determining what shots they’ll cover. Global #immunization efforts saved at least 154 million lives between 1974 and 2024, more than 100 million of them children, according to a study published in The Lancet.

Continue reading at the link in our bio. (Photo: Samuel Corum via Getty Images)

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