RFK JR. Ousts CDC entirely consulting vaccines

US Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Junior on Monday to remove every member of a scientific committee that advises the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own choices.

Senior doctors and public health groups have criticized the transition to the overthrow of all 17 members of the ACIP Consulting Committee (ACIP).

Kennedy did not say who he would have in the committee, but he said that he would be held in just two weeks in Atlanta.

Although it is not usually seen as a party council, the current list of the committee members has been appointed to the administration of US President Joe Biden.

“Without removing the current members, the current Trump administration was not able to appoint most of the new members until 2028,” Kennedy wrote in the opinion of Wall Street Journal. “A clean survey is needed to restore public confidence in vaccine science.”

When it was reached on the phone, the painting chair now rejected-Dr. Helen Cape Talbot from Vanderbilt-Comment University. But another member of the committee, Noel Burur from the University of North Carolina, said that he and the other members of the committee had received an e -mail late on Monday afternoon, which said that their services in the committee had been terminated but did not give any reason.

“I assumed that I will continue to work in the committee for a full period,” said Brewer, who joined the committee last summer.

BreWer is a behavior scientist whose research is taught the reason for vaccinating people and methods of improving vaccination coverage. Whether the people who have been vaccinated are largely affected by what their doctors recommend, and doctors follow ACIP directions.

“Even today, the ACIP recommendations were the golden standard for what insurance companies should pay in exchange for what service providers should recommend, and what the public should look forward to,” he said.

The committee has not been consulted

But Kennedy has already taken the extraordinary step of changing the recommendations of Covid-19 without consulting the committee first-a step criticized by the doctors ’groups and public health advocates.

“It is not clear what the future hides,” said Buruer. “Certainly, the providel organizations have already started to move away from ACIP.”

Kennedy said the committee members have a lot of conflict of interest. Currently, the committee members must declare any capabilities of such conflicts, as well as commercial interests, which arise during their term. They must also reveal any possible conflicts at the beginning of each general meeting.

However, Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of a company to believe the lives and former director of the Center for Disease Control, said that Kennedy’s actions are based on false contradictions for interests and have placed a “dangerous and unprecedented action that makes our families less safe” by reducing vaccines to millions of people.

“Do not make a mistake: the politicization of ACIP, as Minister Kennedy does, will undermine the confidence of the public under the guise of its improvement,” he said in a statement. “We will look back as a dangerous mistake that sacrificed contracts of scientific rigor, undermined the audience’s confidence, and opened the door to marginal theories instead of the facts.”

“Not how democracies work”

Dr. George Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association, called on Kennedy’s collective overthrow as a “coup.”

“It is not how democracies work. They are not good for the health of the nation,” he said.

Benjamin said this step raises real concerns about whether the members of the future committee will be seen as neutral. He added that Kennedy contradicts what he said to the legislators and the public, and plans to see Kennedy to watch “like a falcon.”

“He breaks a promise,” Benjamin said. “He said he will not do this.”

Description of Dr. Bruce A. Scott, President of the American Medical Association, the Committee as a reliable source of science and data advice, and said that Kennedy’s move, along with low vaccination rates throughout the country, will help increase diseases that can escape vaccines.

“Today’s work … undermines confidence and intends a transparent process that saved an endless life,” Scott said in a statement.

The committee has been in a state of flow since Kennedy took over. Its first meeting was delayed this year when the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services postponed its sudden meeting in February.

during Kennedy confirmationCassidy expressed his concerns about the preservation of the committee, saying that he sought assurances that Kennedy would retain the current vaccine recommendations.

The web page that included the committee members on Monday evening, shortly after Kennedy’s announcement.