Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He has fired a panel of 17 medical and public health experts that advised the centers for the control and prevention of diseases in vaccine policy, and they are expected to replace them with individuals aligned with their own skepticism of the vaccine.
In a statement issued on Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services wrote that the Advisory Committee for immunization practices will be attacked again with “new members currently under consideration.”
“A clean sweep is necessary to restore public confidence in vaccine science,” Kennedy wrote, claiming the committee, which helped coordinate the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionThe annual flu prevention program: it had been compromised by conflicts of interest. Committee members must present ethics disseminations, which are prominently shown On your website.
“The Biden administration appointed all 17 members of ACIP sitting. Thirteen of them were appointed in 2024. These appointments would have prevented the current administration from choosing most of the committee until 2028,” Kennedy added. The measure occurs after Kennedy promised Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La) that he would not make changes to the committee to ensure the support of the senator for confirmation.
Earlier this year, the annual meeting Or the ACIP was postponed without explanation and reprogrammed for June. The one -month delay Groups caused That the schedule to transmit recommendations to manufacturers and communicate with insurance companies would have negative repercussions to patients.
In an opinion article for The Wall Street Journal, Kennedy written that “The new members won the work directly for the vaccine industry. They will exercise an independent trial, they will refuse to serve as a rubber stamp and promote a culture of critical research, without fear of asking difficult questions.”
Last month, the “Make America Healy Again” commission by Kennedy published a report that reiterated its own conspiracies about vaccines – And wax Playing for appointment errors and absolute false research. The so -called Maha mentioned report Inspires claims Of the skeptics of vaccines that the recommended vaccine schedule for children in the United States is overloaded and potentially harmful.
The attack against the Independent Vaccine Advisory Board is the last instance in which Kennedy has tried to mold the main public health systems of the Nation around his own pseudoscientific agenda, with the health of millions of Americans in Balance.
