by Sharon Rondeau
(Mar. 16, 2026) — A meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be held March 18-19 and reportedly encompass a “leaked” report on from an ACIP advisory body calling for change to re-instill the public’s confidence in “vaccination programs.”
The meeting was rescheduled from February and occurs only three times annually.
Meetings are lengthy, running from 8:00 a.m. ET to 5:00 p.m. ET both days.
According to medical journalist Maryanne Demasi, “The report focuses on what it calls Post-Acute Covid-19 Vaccination Syndrome, or PACVS.”
While comments are closed for this week’s meeting, the public is regularly invited to submit “written views, recommendations, and data.”
The total number of comments received by the end of the March 12 closing date is 2,724, the website states, and are posted at regulations.gov under docket number CDC-2026-0199-0001.
Since the confirmation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. early last year, ACIP has undergone a major change in its membership, with all 17 voting members at the time dismissed in a highly controversial move.
ACIP’s charter states, in part:
The ACIP shall provide advice and guidance to the Director of the CDC regarding use of vaccines and related agents for effective control of vaccine-preventable diseases in the civilian population of the United States. Recommendations made by the ACIP are reviewed by the CDC Director, and if adopted, are published as official CDC/HHS recommendations in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The CDC Director informs the Secretary, HHS, and the Assistant Secretary for Health, of immunization recommendations. Upon the licensure of any vaccine or any new indication for a vaccine, the Committee shall, as appropriate, consider the use of the vaccine at its next regularly scheduled meeting. If the Committee does not make a recommendation at the Committee’s first regularly scheduled meeting, the Committee shall provide an update on the status of such for the Committee’s review.
The group’s current chairman is pediatric cardiologist Dr. Kirk Milhoan, MD, PhD, and senior fellow at the Independent Medical Alliance, formerly the FLCCC. He is a former military flight surgeon and was an early questioner of the wisdom of mass inoculation with the COVID-19 “vaccine” after its hasty development and limited testing.
ACIP’s members, whose terms conclude on June 20, 2029 regardless of when they commenced, include a transplant expert, an emergency room physician, a state surgeon general and a pharmacist, among others. All serve voluntarily.
Last year the committee made alterations to the recommended childhood immunization schedule to which some medical groups strongly objected, suing HHS for allegedly:
- the appointment of vaccine skeptics to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) after all previous members were fired;
- votes taken by ACIP changing recommendations on the hepatitis B and COVID-19 vaccines and urging manufacturers to stop using thimerosal as a preservative in influenza vaccines;
- the alteration of the immunization schedule, which no longer recommends shots for hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, respiratory syncytial virus, flu and meningococcal disease for all infants; and
- Kennedy’s removal of the CDC’s routine recommendation for healthy children and pregnant women to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
A livestream of the meeting will be available here.