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Happy M-E-L-T. Happy Monday, listeners.

For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman. You're listening to the Weekly Science News Roundup.

Let's dive right in.

First, I've got a quick dispatch from Lauren Young, Associate Editor for Health and Medicine and Scientific American.

Last week, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,

announced the dismissal

of all the public health experts on the advisory committee on immunization practices.

The ACIP is an independent committee that counsels the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

on vaccines.

Here's more now to tell us more.

So a little rundown of what ACIP does. The committee's recommendations

help guide doctors, health practitioners, and the general public on whether or not various

groups of people should get access to vaccines and when. So for instance, they help shape

immunization schedules for adults, kids, pregnant people, and those with pre-existing health conditions that may make

them more vulnerable to severe illness. So the ACIP meets about three times a year, and the

meetings are open to the public and typically broadcast it and recorded online. You can go back

and watch old meetings. The ACIP members review all sorts of different types of data, evidence from government scientists,

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