GOP Health Committee chair calls for CDC vaccine advisers’ meeting to be postponed

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services’s advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP) to indefinitely postpone a Sept. 18 meeting in the aftermath of a shake-up at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that resulted…