The new ACIP CDC vaccine panel by RFK JR. to check the long-approved recordings
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The revised government committee of vaccination consultants from Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The committee, which is known as the advisory committee for vaccination practices or acip, will also check the schedule for vaccination in childhood. At the beginning of this month, Kennedy removed all members of the group in a breathtaking step and replaced, which advises the centers for the control and prevention of diseases.
ACIP members are independent experts in medical and public health who review vaccine data and make recommendations that determine who is entitled to record recordings and whether insurers should cover them, among other things. But Kennedy appointed some vaccination critics, including Dr. Robert Malone, which were able to shape the immunization directive and influence the availability in the USA
ACIP will create new working groups that are employees who check the published and unpublished data and develop recommendation options that can be presented to the committee, said Dr. Martin Kulldorff, the new chairman of the committee, during the session. A new working group will check the schedule for childhood vaccine, while another recordings are examined that have not been subjected to evaluations for more than seven years, he said.
The latter group can examine the generally recommended hepatitis -B vaccine and ask whether it is “wise” to give every newborn the shot before leaving the hospital, added Kulldorff. He also said that the group could check the combination of measles, mumps and rubella together with the Windpockenjab. Vaccination skeptics have questioned the security of both recordings.
“This should be a regular practice of the ACIP, but it was not done thoroughly and systematically. We will change that,” said Kulldorff.
Dr. Sean O’Leary, an expert for infectious diseases at the American Academy of Pediatrics, later informed the reporter on Wednesday that the review of the vaccination plan “has been an anti-Accy trope for many, many years”. According to O’Leary, many vaccines “essentially always checked in real time over a number of different mechanisms”, including several security monitoring and monitoring instruments for diseases.
The American Academy of Pediatrics did not take part in the ACIP meeting on Wednesday because “we consider it to be illegitimate,” said O’Leary. He added that the organization will continue to provide vaccination plans for children regardless of the CDC.
“What we see today, and if this should continue, the medical providers, public health workers will no longer trust the whole country on ACIP. That is clear,” said O’Leary and said the goal was to resume the 17 members who fired Kennedy and back to “a normal process”.
During a full-day meeting on Wednesday in Atlanta, the committee evaluated data on Covid 19 vaccines and RSV shots. A vote on recommendations for the latter was postponed until the group meeting on Thursday.
Also on Thursday, the group will check data on shots for the flu and other diseases.
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“Vaccines are not all good or bad,” said Kulldorff in the opening speeches.
“If you believe that all vaccines are safe and effective and you all want or that you want to think that all vaccines are dangerous and none of them want, then you don’t have much for us. You already know what you want,” said Kulldorff, a biostatistic and epidemiologist who in the COVID-19-pandemic at the early stage and other public health measurements.
“But if you want to know which vaccines are suitable for you and your children and at what age, we will give you evidence -based recommendations,” he added.
Before the meeting, one of Kennedy’s new representative resigned from the committee.
In an explanation, an HHS spokesman said Dr. Michael Ross has withdrawn during an obligatory review of the financial stocks of each ACIP member without providing further details. It is unclear what its financial stocks are.
Ross is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and has concentrated on breast and cervical cancer in another CDC advisory body.
A CDC website on conflicts of interest for ACIP members seems alongside Dr. Cody Meissner none for Kennedy’s members.
What new panel members said about vaccines
The eight new members of Kennedy include some well -known vaccine critics such as Dr. Robert Malone.
Malone himself calculates a key role in the creation of mRNA vaccines, but has gained a large followers for unfounded and refused claims on COVID-19 shots.
Another new member, Retsef Levi, has pushed to not give the mRNA vaccines anymore, and incorrectly claimed in a post on X that they caused “serious damage including death, especially in young people”.
Another member, Vicky Pbsworth, is a nurse on the board of the national vaccine information center. This organization was widely criticized as a leading source for misinformation and Fearmongen about immunization.
During the meeting on Wednesday, PEFSWORT announced that it has existence and health sectors, which includes manufacturers of vaccines. But she said her investments come from the amount that the government sees as a conflict of interests and enables her to take part in the Acip meeting.
Kennedy dismissed former ACIP members for describing “persistent conflicts of interest”. But all HHS agencies and their advisory bodies have strict guidelines for conflicts of interest, and there have been no relatives for years.
