As fired and retired scientists gathered outside in the heat of Atlanta, a consultancy panel that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has chosen to replace experts he had fired before, in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s head office to plan a more skeptical vaccine.
The new members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices started their term of office on Wednesday by relocating the attitude of the 60-year panel of support for vaccination to doubt the safety and efficacy of established and widespread inocations.
Their discussions and voices faded this week in significance, but compared to the announcement of health and human services Kennedy on Tuesday that he would include an American dedication of $ 1.2 billion in global immunization.
That decision will kill children in the poorest countries in the world, said critics.
In the meantime, the new Acip ordered that newborn Americans get a new licensed shot to protect them against a breathing virus. The panel also urged doctors to stop administering the flu vaccine that contains a mercury -based preservative called Thimerosal. That decision, in accordance with Kennedy’s refuted statement that Thimerosal has helped to cause an autism epidemic, will have relatively little effect, because only about 4% of the flu vaccines currently contains the preservative.
More concerns about the advocates of Vaccin, the committee’s plans to revise the government’s vaccine schedule, can undermine the long -accepted consensus and the trust of the public, because at least three of the seven committee members have been pronounced opponents of current vaccines. The federal government is legally bound by ACIP’s decisions to provide vaccines that it recommends to children and other groups with a lower income, and States also follow ACIP’s advice.
Former epidemiologist at Harvard University Martin Kulldorff, the new chair of ACIP, set the tone in his opening comments. “Secretary Kennedy has given this committee a clear mandate to use evidence-based medicine in making vaccination recommendations, and that’s what we will do,” he said.
He added: “There are no wrong questions,” and he announced that a new working group would investigate whether children and adolescents get too many vaccines. Another will consider whether Acip’s 34-year-old recommendation of a birth dosis of hepatitis B vaccine should be continued, a practice that did that Dramatically reduced liver disease.
Kulldorff, a COVID-19CONTIAN and Biostatistician who said he was fired by Harvard for refusing a COVID vaccination after a serious case of the disease, said that the reputation of science and public health has fallen to low points. But public health scientists and officials disagree about who is to blame.
The biggest cause is “Fearing and pseudoscience that has overtaken our country,” said Caroline Brown, a pediatrician outside Winston-Salem, North Carolina, during the external public comment session. She noted that the first case of the year of her state was reported this week, in a panic of many of the families she treats.
Measles was eliminated in the United States 25 years ago. The “is now back because of the falling vaccination rates that are powered by wrong information that is not only permitted, but is also reinforced by some of you who are in this committee,” said Brown.
The American Academy of Pediatrics refused to send official contacts to the meeting and announced on Thursday that it would continue to publish “his own evidence-based recommendations and schedules” for vaccines, which exploded the Kennedy panel.
“What we heard in this meeting was really a false story that the current vaccine policy is defective and that they must be determined,” said Sean O’Leary, a doctor who presents the AAP committee for infectious diseases, in a statement. “That is completely incorrect. This policy has saved millions of lives, trillion dollars.”
The Immunization Safety Office of the CDC has carried out studies of the entire vaccine schedule and found no damage, although a study from 2023 indicated a possible connection between aluminum salts used in some shots and asthma.
Within the CDC conference space there was a striking contrast between ACIP members and the CDC officials who informed the panel. While the CDC scientists presented studies that demonstrated the safety and value of COVID and RSV vaccines (respiratory syncytial virus), for example, many of the panel members indicated.
Biochemist Robert Malone and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Management Professor Retsef Levi -two panel members who have called on to prohibit the MRNA technology used for COVID -vaccins -were often rejecting for the CDC analysis and data.
Malone, Levi and Vicky Pebsworth – an old enemy of school vaccination requirements – suggested hidden damage such as “hot lots” of dangerous shots, remaining spike protein in the blood of mrna recordings and insufficient vaccine safety monitoring.
CDC scientists refuted most criticisms. But the final recommendations for the policy will be made by the committee.
Standing along a busy traffic road in the suburbs outside the headquarters of the CDC in Atlanta, while the meeting came, people who were critical of the new ACIP were dressed in costumes representing vaccine-babbing diseases-Mazelen, HPV, skirts. A small Cadre was wearing balloon letters to “recover Acip”. One held a leg splint, usually used to stabilize the limbs of people with polio, a disease that is driven to almost extinction by vaccination. Many drivers honored when they passed by.
Casey Boudreau, who recently retired from a career who worked on vaccination -workable diseases at the CDC, said that she was upset by the insistence of Kennedy that the verdict was still on the safety of some vaccines and by his calls to be studied further.
“You concentrate on reinventing the wheel,” she said. “Do we have to go back and test airbags again? Or do we know they work?”
Tony Fiore, who served as a contact person for ACIP for part of his time before he retired, said that he was “great concern” that the words and actions of the committee “would reduce the confidence that people have in vaccines and harm our immunization programs”.
HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon, who briefly floated on the edge of Rally when people started to collect, rejected it as “nothing more than a dog and pony show with a lack of serious credibility, proven by their Halloween costumes”, in a statement later sent by SMS.
During the meeting in Doomed Kennedy and his agenda in the background, especially after the HH -Secretary had announced leaving Gavi, an international group that treasures his vaccine programs have saved 18 million livesUsually in the poorest countries in the world.
Have provided the United States 13% of GAVI’s budgetAnd President Joe Biden had promised an extra $ 1.2 billion for four years before he left the office. Kennedy’s action means that children “will miss life -saving vaccines” against diseases that cause pneumonia, diarrhea, measles, polio and other diseases, said former CDC official deblina DATTA in an interview.
“There will be dead,” said Datta, who retired after 24 years at the office in 2023. “I am not hyperbolic. This is a big blow to children worldwide.”
Kennedy said that Gavi had not done enough to promote the safety of vaccine. He also accused the group of complicity in censing vaccine skeptics as he did during the pandemic.
Before Kennedy intervened, the Acip had prepared to give children a shot less. The committee would have voted on reducing vaccinations against HPV, which causes cervical cancer, from two doses to one – because a single shot has proved to be so effective.
Kennedy has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in reimbursements from a hanging lawsuit against Merck about alleged injuries from one of the HPV vaccines.
Although it will have little actual impact, frustrated mood about Thimerosal also proponents of vaccine. Public health agencies removed the substance from almost all vaccines in children from 1999, out of concern that the accumulation of even small amounts of mercury could harm the brains of children and, some people believe, cause autism.
However, removal of thimerosal from vaccines in children had no influence on autism.
But on Thursday one of the earliest anti-thimerosal activists, nurse Lyn Redwood, presented a paper of Acip on his dangers. Her arguments were almost identical to A paper she wrote together on this subject in 2001.
A Summary of the proof Thimerosal produced by CDC staff was posted online Redwood’s slides On Tuesday, but it was removed before the ACIP meeting started. The CDC paper concluded that the evidence of the Thimerosal in vaccines did not link to autism or other developmental problems.
According to the Washington Post, Kennedy has appointed Redwood To a position in the Immunization Safety Office from CDC.
“Removing Thimerosal from vaccines did not make them safer, just more expensive,” said Elias Kass, a naturopathic doctor in Seattle, the committee during a public comment session. “Heritigation of already answered questions, such as the safety of Thimerosal, is not a radical transparency-it is a treacherous attempt to suggest that something has been missed or hidden.”
Removal of Thimerosal from all flu vaccines can have disadvantages.
Two companies Seqirus and Sanofi sales still multidosis flu vaccinflacons that contain Thimerosal as a preservative. A single vaccination of these 10-dose of injections costs 10 to 40 times less than a pre-packaged syringe of one shot, According to a CDC price list.
Seqirus will have no trouble replacing his remaining multidosis bottles with a few syringes on time for the flu season, said spokesperson Melanie Kerin.
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