Europe EditionDismissed members of CDC vaccine committee call Kennedy’s actions ‘destabilizing’
- On June 9, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, terminated the entire 17-person CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and subsequently selected eight new individuals to fill the vacancies within two days.
- Kennedy alleged conflicts of interest among dismissed members and claimed replacing them was necessary to restore public trust in vaccine recommendations.
- The dismissed experts and various health organizations criticized the purge as destabilizing, warning it could reduce vaccine access, erode trust, and disrupt decades of scientific integrity.
- Experts noted routine vaccination of about 117 million U.S. children from 1994 to 2023 likely prevented 508 million illnesses, 32 million hospitalizations, and over 1 million deaths, saving $540 billion in direct costs.
- The new committee meeting at month’s end faces scrutiny amid concerns the shakeup might lead to uneven immunization policies and further weaken the national vaccine program.
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CDC Advisers Ousted by RFK Jr. Voted on Vaccines Despite Conflicts
Multiple people who until early June served on a federal vaccine advisory committee cast votes on vaccines despite receiving or recently receiving money from pharmaceutical companies that stood to be affected by the votes, according to an Epoch Times review. Dr. Helen Y. Chu, a professor of medicine and allergy and infectious diseases at the University of Washington, reported throughout 2024 receiving funds from Merck, among other pharmaceutical…
Claims that seed oils are harming Americans' health are causing problems for farmers
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others have said that seed oils are poisoning Americans. The medical community mostly rejects those claims, but they are causing problems for farmers.
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Vaccine Expert Tears Into RFK Jr. After Quitting CDC: ‘Americans Are Going to Die’
One of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s top vaccine specialists has warned that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vax policies will cause “a lot of Americans to die” after resigning from the agency on Monday. Dr. Fiona Havers spent 13 years with the CDC as a senior advisor on vaccine policy, developing a reputation as one of the world’s leading figures on immunization. But following a series of escalating attacks on the agency from RF…
RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel to Vote on Flu Shots With Mercury
A panel of key government advisers appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will weigh in on an infrequently used vaccine preservative that has been wrongly linked to autism in the past.
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