The newly reconstituted advisory committee for immunization practices, or ACIP, will hold its first meeting on Wednesday, only a few weeks after the secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s wholesale in the health and human services, the wholesaler of all 17 board members, who replaces them by only eight individuals, many of them will form the United States policy with United States policy.
There is already reason for concern for those in the medical community and the Senate that the meeting will, as is currently organized, discourage vaccinations by emphasizing the risks by non -peavette presentations of listed vaccine skeptics.
A Updated draft agenda For the meeting it appears that ACIP will vote on pediatric respiratory syncytial or rsv, vaccines. There will also be presentations, followed by a mood, about flu vaccines that contain Thimerosal, a mercury -based preservative used to prevent microbial growth.
Thimerosal has been speculated in the vaccine for years in the vaccine – Mr. Kennedy himself in a 2014 book Was “enormously toxic to brain tissue” and could cause neurological disorders such as autism and ADHD, claim that have repeatedly been invalidated.
Emerita Lyn Redwood from children for children is expected to give a presentation “with regard to Thimerosal in vaccines,” said the last agenda.
Mrs. Redwood is co-author of the report “Autism: a new form of mercury poisoning”, which claimed that excessive exposure to Thimerosal, “an important source of mercury in children” can cause neurological disorders that are comparable to autism through vaccinations. The health defense of the children is a controversial non -profit organization that was previously chaired by Mr. Kennedy who has been pronounced
The vaccine integrity project said that Mrs. Redwood’s presentation was not screened by CDC experts, and added that it was one of the many “disturbing” recent changes in the ACIP protocol.
Last year, while he appeared on Mr. Kennedy podcastMrs. Redwood shared her concerns about the administration of the flu vaccine to pregnant women and the potential neurological damage it can cause.
On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, released a new one report About thimerosal and neurological results, saying that “found no evidence of damage caused by the use of Thimerosal as a vaccine preservative, other than local hypersensitivity reactions.”
ACIP establishes traditional recommendations for the CDC on vaccine policy, including determining the list of vaccines for the vaccination schedule for children. ACIP’s recommendations are linked to federal policy and programs such as the Vaccins for Children Program, which offers free photos to families they may not be able to afford.
In recent weeks, Mr. Kennedy’s government has apparently chased traditional CDC -Vangrails away that were part of the standard ACIP meeting. Earlier this month, Mr. Kennedy DELETED The CDC officer Dr. Melinda Wharton and her team at the CDC’s Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases of their role of supervision of the ACIP board. Dr. Wharton had served If the executive secretary, who included the ACIP nominates, set up the meeting agenda and coordinate meetings for ACIPs working groups This assessment published and non -published data and offers recommendations for board members. Those working groups are reportedly removed from the upcoming ACIP meeting.
The newly appointed ACIP chairman, Dr. Martin Kuldorff, a pronounced critic of COVID-19 MANDS and one of Mr. Kennedy’s Handpick board members, has been set to give opening comments and to give an “update” about the working groups at the start of Wednesday’s meeting, according to the agenda.
The senator of Louisiana and chairman of the Senate Health Committee Bill Cassidy, a Republican, called Mr Kennedy to postpone this week’s ACIP meeting about the observed lack of experience with the new panel board members.
“In particular, some have no experience in studying new technologies such as MRNA vaccines, and can even have prejudices against them,” Mr Cassidy placed on X. He said that the meeting must be postponed until the panel is fully staffed with “robust and balanced representation – as required by the law.”
During a appearance at a budget hearing for a housing sub -committee on Tuesday, Mr. Kennedy defended his decision to remove all 17 members from the previous ACIP panel and to name them “a template for medical malpractice.”
During the Budget hearing, the Washington representative Kim Schrier, a Democrat, accused Mr. Kennedy van Liegen against Mr Cassidy by not doing well with a promise he had made to the senator Maintenance Acip “Without changes” prior to confirmation of Mr. Kennedy.
“I have not seen that statement from Senator Cassidy. I only heard it from you, but if he said I agreed, it would be inaccurate. I have concluded an agreement with him and he and I often spoke about that agreement,” replied Mr. Kennedy during the hearing.
The recent appointments of Mr. Kennedy of the eight Acip board members were “made for no clear reasons, can reverse the performance of the American immunization policy, have access to people to life -saving vaccines and ultimately endanger the American families of dangerous and diseases,” the 17 Acip board members after their DISMISM.
Dr. Kulldorff is also planned to present ‘proposed recommendations with regard to thimerosal containing flu vaccine’, and to give a presentation about the measles-mumps-Rubella-Varicella or MMRV, vaccine in children aged 4 and younger, followed by its proposed recommendations for the MMRV shot.
Dr. Kulldorff, a former professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, wrote together with Jay Bhattacharya, now director of the National Institutes of Health. The 2020 open letter argued that mass downs and school closures did more harm than good, instead argue for ‘targeted protection’.
He mentioned Covid -vaccine mandates “unscientific and unethical. “He claimed he was rejected By both Harvard and Mass General Brigham, where he worked as an epidemiologist, to refuse to follow their respective vaccine mandates.
In response to the recent movements of Mr. Kennedy, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota in Minnesota in Minneapolis, or CIDRAP, this week has announced that it is positioning his vaccine -grant project as a one Independent Vaccincommissie Determine vaccine recommendations.
The CIDRAP director Michael Osterholm said that he is discussing all the vaccine recommendations with public health groups and medical organizations, including the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Pharmacists Association.
Mr. Osterholm believe That ACIP can no longer be the single authority that try health insurance companies for which vaccines coverage must be given. New initiatives such as his, he thinks, “insurance companies can influence which shots to cover.”
The Wednesday meeting is planned to start at 10 a.m.
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