The ACIP meeting was the first time the eight new members convened since they were appointed by Kennedy on June 11.

The newly formed vaccine advisory committee handpicked by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that it would examine the cumulative effect of the childhood vaccine schedule and reevaluate hepatitis B immunization recommendations - moves that could shift long-standing practices of how and when children are immunized in the United States.

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.