HEALTH RFK Jr. fires entire CDC vaccine advisory panel

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RFK Jr. fires entire CDC vaccine advisory panel​

Story by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY 6-9-2025
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired all 17 members of a committee that advises the federal government on vaccine safety and will replace them with new members, a move that the Trump administration's critics warned would create public distrust around the government's role in promoting public health.

At issue is the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, which makes recommendations on the safety, efficacy, and clinical need of vaccines to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It comprises medical and public health experts who develop recommendations on the use of vaccines in the civilian population of the United States.

“Today we are prioritizing the restoration of public trust above any specific pro- or anti-vaccine agenda,” Kennedy Jr., who has a history of controversial views on vaccines, said on June 9 in announcing the overhaul. “The public must know that unbiased science—evaluated through a transparent process and insulated from conflicts of interest—guides the recommendations of our health agencies.”

Kennedy Jr.'s decision marks a reversal from what a key Republican senator said the Trump Cabinet member had promised during his confirmation hearings earlier this year. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, the chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, said Kennedy had promised to maintain the advisory committee's current composition.

"If confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes," Cassidy said.

The Biden administration appointed all 17 sitting committee members, with 13 of them taking their seats in 2024. According to Trump's HHS, those appointments would have prevented the current administration from choosing a majority of the committee until 2028.

"A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science,” said Kennedy, adding that the new members "will prioritize public health and evidence-based medicine" and "no longer function as a rubber stamp for industry profit-taking agendas."

The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practice is scheduled to hold its next meeting June 25 through June 27 at CDC headquarters in Atlanta. An HHS source familiar with the details told USA TODAY that the new members of the panel will attend the session.

'Fixing a problem that doesn't exist'​

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Critics of the Trump administration warned that Kennedy Jr.'s move was not necessary, undermines the government's role in vaccine safety and could lead to more deadly disease transmissions.

Dr. Paul A. Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the Food and Drug Administration Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, told USA TODAY that Kennedy was "fixing a problem that doesn't exist."

Picking members for the committee generally involves a three to four month vetting process by the CDC. "Now he's just going to pick people he likes," Offit added. "Presumably people who are like-minded and I think that will shake confidence in this committee."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Kennedy and the Trump administration are "taking a wrecking ball to the programs that keep Americans safe and healthy."

The New York Democrat added that wiping out an entire panel of vaccine experts doesn’t build trust — it shatters it."Worse, it sends a chilling message: that ideology matters more than evidence, and politics more than public health," he said.

Dr. Bruce Scott, president of the American Medical Association, warned that Kennedy Jr's work has undermined trust and "upends a transparent process that has saved countless lives."

"With an ongoing measles outbreak and routine child vaccination rates declining, this move will further fuel the spread of vaccine-preventable illnesses," he said.

A measles outbreak recently killed two unvaccinated children in Texas. The CDC said the deaths were the first from measles in the United States since 2015. Kennedy Jr. has backed vaccination as a preventive tool during a measles outbreak but also said that vaccines should be left to parents' discretion.

As of June 5, a total of 1,168 confirmed measles cases were reported by 34 jurisdictions. The CDC also reported three deaths due to the outbreak.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: RFK Jr. fires entire CDC vaccine advisory panel
 
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U.S. Health Secretary RFK Jr. Fires Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel in Stunning "Clean Sweep"

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has abruptly dismissed all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—the federal body that shapes America’s vaccine policy.

In a blistering op‑ed published Monday in The Wall Street Journal, RFK Jr. declared the panel “plagued with persistent conflicts of interest” and branding the current members as a shadowy cabal heavily influenced by pharmaceutical money.

He demanded “a clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science.”

It can be recalled that the ‘unsafe and ineffective’ COVID-19 vaccine was formally added to the routine immunization schedule for both children and adolescents by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday.

It is common knowledge that COVID-19 poses no threat to young children, that mRNA vaccinations against the virus are not effective or safe and that some people have even died after receiving a COVID vaccine. But the CDC and its advisory council continue to push for childhood vaccinations despite all these facts.

Back in October 2022, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which provides advice and guidance to the Director of the CDC regarding the use of vaccines for the control of vaccine-preventable diseases, voted to recommend COVID-19 to be included in the 2023 childhood immunization schedule in 15 unanimous votes.

ACIP recommended the use of COVID-19 vaccines for everyone as young as 6 months and older. The COVID-19 vaccine and other vaccines may be administered on the same day.

“Today, we are taking a bold step in restoring public trust by totally reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP),” RFK Jr. wrote on X.

“A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science. The entire world once looked to American health regulators for guidance, inspiration, scientific impartiality, and unimpeachable integrity. Public trust has eroded. Only through radical transparency and gold standard science, will we earn it back,” he added.

According to RFK Jr.:

ACIP evaluates the safety, efficacy and clinical need of the nation’s vaccines and passes its findings on to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine. It has never recommended against a vaccine—even those later withdrawn for safety reasons. It has failed to scrutinize vaccine products given to babies and pregnant women. To make matters worse, the groups that inform ACIP meet behind closed doors, violating the legal and ethical principle of transparency crucial to maintaining public trust.

In 2000 the House issued the results of an investigation of ACIP and another vaccine advisory committee under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration—the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. It found that enforcement of its conflict-of-interest rules was weak to nonexistent. Committee members regularly participated in deliberations and advocated products in which they had a financial stake. The CDC issued conflict-of-interest waivers to every committee member. Four out of eight ACIP members who voted in 1997 on guidelines for the Rotashield vaccine, subsequently withdrawn because of severe adverse events, had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies developing other rotavirus vaccines. A 2009 HHS inspector-general report echoed these findings. Few committee members completed full conflict-of-interest forms—97% of them had omissions. The CDC took no significant action to remedy the omissions.

These conflicts of interest persist. Most of ACIP’s members have received substantial funding from pharmaceutical companies, including those marketing vaccines. The problem isn’t necessarily that ACIP members are corrupt. Most likely aim to serve the public interest as they understand it. The problem is their immersion in a system of industry-aligned incentives and paradigms that enforce a narrow pro-industry orthodoxy. The new members won’t directly work for the vaccine industry. They will exercise independent judgment, refuse to serve as a rubber stamp, and foster a culture of critical inquiry—unafraid to ask hard questions.

A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science. In the 1960s, the world sought guidance from America’s health regulators, who had a reputation for integrity, scientific impartiality and zealous defense of patient welfare. Public trust has since collapsed, but we will earn it back.

No sooner had the news dropped than vaccine stocks took a dive. Moderna, Pfizer, BioNTech, and Novavax all saw notable declines, according to Reuters.

Now, the committee is set to reboot within just two weeks in Atlanta—without traditional vetting or the years-long process to ensure independent, expert input.

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Bps1691

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The corrupt demoncrats always fail on the outcome of their predictions in the actual outcome.

Every word that comes from their mouths is from the father of lies. Sweet to the ears that want it and dripping in slime to those with ears that can hear.

Yes real tested vaccines work, the stuff the corrupted big pharmaceuticals turn usually cause more harm then long term good.
 
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired all 17 members of a committee that advises the federal government on vaccine safety and will replace them with new members, a move that the Trump administration's critics warned would create public distrust around the government's role in promoting public health.
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wait, what?

:prfl:
 
mistaken1

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The Biden administration appointed all 17 sitting committee members, with 13 of them taking their seats in 2024.
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Replacing the democrap quislings does not undermine public trust in the government it undermines the democraps ability sabotage the Trump administration and our health while raking in pharma cash to fund their commie coup.
 
Ractivist

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Pride comes before the fall.....Pride month ended.
The naming of the CDC, Center for Disease Control, is perfectly appropriate when looked at as, controlling the spread of diseases....not eradicating diseases. They have done nothing to eradicate, as evidenced throughout the invasion and covid with all its lies.... They have in fact worked to spread disease by warehousing invaders and then shipping them on buses or airplanes all over the country, with their third world diseases which they spread amongst themselves prior to their trip inland. That's when it really became evident they could care less.

Covid was nothing but a display of contempt for the US citizens, oh I guess it might still be considered a genocide fomented by the deep state. If that counts anymore? The virus was man made, and the kill shot was man made by the same group of people, with patents from 2012....The evidence of the genocide is conclusive, right up to the video of Bill Gates suggesting vaccines were the perfect way to kill off a lot of people in the name of population control.

The folks who take their places, better not be of the same cloth...
 
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