Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior on Wednesday Name eight new members A few days ago for an important government panel of vaccine advisors after firing the entire group.
His pics consists of some famous vaccine critics, including Dr. Robert Malon also includes.
The new members will join the vaccination practices, or the Advisory Committee on ACIP, which recommends disease control and prevention centers. The group reviews the vaccine data and recommends which determines who is eligible for shots and whether insurers should cover them between other efforts.
The CDC director has to sign those recommendations to become an official policy.
Kennedy said in a post on X on Wednesday that eight new advisors will participate in a planned meeting of ACIP from 25 June to 27 June. Seventeen members first served on ACIP.
It is no longer clear how, taken together, the new consultants will affect vaccine policy and availability in the US, but public health experts expected that Kennedy could choose members who share their doubts of vaccination.
Lawrence Gostin, Professor of Public Health Act at the University of Georgetown, said, “We all knew that it is a national tragedy and a major threat to children’s health and life.” Post On X.
Kennedy stated that his pics included “highly reliable scientists, prominent public-health experts and some of the most skilled physicians in the US.” He said that he is committed to evidence-based medical, gold-standard science and general knowledge. ,
Malon earlier this year, without proof suggested that recent deaths from measles among children were due to medical errors rather than viruses. Malon has played an important role in the manufacture of MRNA vaccines, but has become a prominent person in the anti-vaccine movement.
Dr. Paul offt, a pediatrician, who specializes in infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and members of TDA’s independent panel of vaccine advisors, called some new members “anti-vaccine activists”.
“I think the public is not getting the quality of advice as much as we had before the payj,” he told the CNBC. “I think people who were in the committee were fired, there were more expertise in areas you needed expertise than this group.”
The offt said that he hoped that ACIP would have recommendations to be “less informed” with new members.
HHS did not immediately respond to the request to comment on some members having anti-vaccine ideas.
Here are Kennedy’s pics:
- Dr. Robert Malon – A physician and vaccine critic who did early research on the MRNA vaccine technique.
- Dr. Joseph Hibelan – A psychiatrist and neuroscientist who was the acting head of the section of nutritional neurosciences in the laboratory of membrane Biofizics and Biochemistry at the National Institute of Health in the past.
- Dr. Martin kulladorf – A biostatist and epidemic scientist who was rejected by Mass General Brigham last year and as a result, was fired from his faculty position at Harvard Medical School, They slammed the university How did this handle Kovid -19 epidemic. He has worked in the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee of Food and Drug Administration and CDC’s Vaccine Safety Subgroup.
- Retsef Levi – A professor of operating management in Mit Sloan School of Management, who has also served as faculty directors of school food supply chain analysis and sensing initiatives.
- Dr. Kodi Meesner – A Professor of Pediatrics at Giselle School of Medicine in Dartmouth. He has played advisory roles with both CDC and FDA, and has been a voting member of the ACIP and FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee.
- Dr. James Pagano – A board-certified emergency medical doctor who has served in several hospital committees.
- Dr. Michael Ross – A clinical professor of maternity and gynecology at the University of George Washington and Virginia Commonwealth. He has served in the CDC Advisory Committee to prevent breast and cervical cancer.
- Vicky Pabsworth – A nurse with a PhD in public health, who has previously served in FDA Vaccine Advisory Committees.
But Pabsworth is a nurse Rider National Vaccine Information Center. That organization is widely criticized as a major source of misinformation and is frightened about vaccination.
Meanwhile, Levi slammed MRNA vaccines Post At X in 2023, which was still placed on top of his account on Wednesday afternoon.
Levi wrote, “The evidence is growing and undisputed that MRNA’s vaccines cause serious damage, especially among young people,” Levi wrote. “We have to stop giving them immediately!”
The offt said that the Meesner is the most worthy pick of the group, saying that it is an expert and a “good option.”
In a dartmouth article in 2024, Meissner called measles “very safe and highly effective”.
“Parents need to ensure that their children are receiving their vaccination so that the cases do not go up,” he said.
Kennedy had previously reduced the outbreak of the ongoing measles in the US and has spread the baseless claims that the vaccines against the virus consists of fetal cells.
Explanation: It was updated to show the story that Kulladorf was also rejected from his position in Mass General Brigham last year.
