New CDC Advisers to Vote on RSV and Influenza Vaccines for Children, Pregnant Women

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scheduled soon to cast votes on influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines, according to a document released on June 18. New members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) are slated on June 25 to offer a recommendation to the CDC on RSV vaccines for pregnant women and children, a draft agenda for the meeting states, as well as vote on RSV vaccines with regards to the Vaccines for Children program. Vaccines for Children is a federal program that involves the CDC buying certain vaccines and distributing them to providers, making them available to uninsured and certain other children....