Immunizations “are not all good or bad,” says the chair of the overhauled panel.

The votes in favor of Merck's shot are a sigh of relief after Kennedy gutted the panel and tapped replacements, some of whom are well-known vaccine critics.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and its eight new members, met for the first time Thursday after Health and Humans Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced a “clean sweep” of the panel earlier this month.