A panel of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy will not meet as previously scheduled next week.

Health and Human Services officials said the postponement was to accommodate public comment ahead of the meeting but experts decried the delay.

A CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for next week has been postponed. It was the first vaccine meeting since health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization has postponed a meeting about vaccines. It comes shortly after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed.

The first CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as HHS secretary has been indefinitely postponed, the department confirmed. Why it matters: The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices,