Members of a union representing federal workers said it has been waiting for guidance from the CDC and its parent agency on whether telework will be considered an accommodation under its revised policy.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday it anticipates voting on the pediatric use of Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella (MMRV) vaccines and hepatitis B vaccines during a two-day meeting of experts scheduled for September 18-19,

The U.S. public health system is headed to a "very dangerous place" with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his team of anti-vaccine advisers in charge, fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Susan Monarez warned senators on Wednesday.

The former director of the CDC testified Wednesday in front of a Senate committee that Kennedy fired her because she refused go against science on vaccines.

Susan Monarez testified she had refused RFK Jr's demands to approve vaccine recommendations because they were not based on science.

"Overall, the Secretary is rapidly transforming CDC from a public health and scientific agency to one that is firmly controlled politically," Lawrence Gostin, director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, told NBC News.

A two-day meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, with new members appointed by RFK Jr., could reshape public trust in childhood vaccines and reduce access.