CDC, Rfk Jr. and Polio vaccine
Digest more
1h
Boing Boing on MSNRFK Jr replaces entire vaccine advisory board with controversial figuresAll 17 members of ACIP, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, have just published an article in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) highlighting their experiences on the committee and their grave concerns about their recent firings by RFK,
Dr. James Hildreth, an epidemiologist and head of Meharry Medical College, said he is 'baffled' over RFK Jr.'s changes to CDC vaccine advisory panel.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency's network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orders to change the agency's vaccine recommendations and the committee that makes them.
None of these individuals will be ideological anti-vaxxers,’ health secretary says of new appointees to CDC vaccine advisory committee