The lawsuit alleges that a decision in May to remove COVID-19 vaccines from the federal list of recommended vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women was unlawful.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, which typically attends ACIP meetings as one of 30 liaison members, is now boycotting the ACIP meetings. Other medical groups slammed the "politicized" remake of the vaccine advisory panel.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s newly appointed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel is reconsidering vaccine recommendations for children, a move that has raised concerns among many health professionals.