00:00We're here in Atlanta at the CDC where we just wrapped up what was a confusing and unusual
00:07meeting of a federal vaccine advisory committee called the Advisory Committee on Immunization
00:13Practices. Today they voted on COVID shots. COVID shots have been routinely recommended
00:19for Americans since vaccines became available fairly early in the pandemic. But today this
00:25panel said no we're not going to recommend shots routinely for Americans anymore. It's going to be
00:33up to individual decision making. So if you want a shot you can get one but it's not technically
00:39recommended by the government anymore. This panel is controversial. It contains some people who are
00:45seen as vaccine skeptics and the meeting was confusing. Vaccine skeptics are not they were
00:53new to the ACIP process. There was a comment from outside groups many of them doctors groups or
01:02public health organizations that expressed concern about the way this ACIP committee is conducting
01:10business and how they formulate recommendations and decide on them.
