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US Vaccine Panel To Hold High-stakes Policy Meeting

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, has sought to overhaul America's premier medical institutions since taking office (Credit: AFP)

A US panel stacked with figures sympathetic to the anti-vaccine movement will on Thursday take on federal immunization recommendations in a highly politicized meeting that could upend longstanding medical advice.

President Donald Trump's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., handpicked the voting members of the medical advisory group that is expected to consider whether to alter the standard childhood vaccine schedule -- a move public health experts warn could have dire consequences.

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