At risk is the vaccination program for children in USAas the new members of an expert advisory group appointed by US Health Minister Robert Kennedy Junior review the process.
The ACIP Advisory Committee is an instrument that provides recommendations to the US Centers (CDC) for who and when to be vaccinated.
The seven new ACIP members met yesterday for the first time, a few weeks after Kennedy Junior missed all of their 17 predecessors after accusing them of conflict of interest.
Prior to yesterday’s meeting, public health experts and politicians had expressed concerns about the qualifications of the new members of the Commission, many of whom are reserved for vaccines.
The meeting yesterday started with the new leader of Acip, Dr. Martin Couldorf, To declare that he was fired by Harvard, where he worked as a medicine professor because he refused to be vaccinated against Covid -9.
Couldorf announced the setting up of a new work group to examine the vaccination schedule of children and the usefulness of vaccines approved seven or more years ago.
At the same time he pointed out that it would be reviewed if it is “prudent” to administer the hepatitis B vaccine in newborns, a vaccine that has been proven to be safe and effective in preventing the disease, which can cause liver cancer.
According to Cumdorf, The timetable for the administration of the measles vaccine should also be revised.
Vaccine review, which were licensed seven or more years ago, raises concerns because it implies that their approval process was problematic, Bill Hanagi said Epidemiology Professor of Harvard Th Chan School of Public Health.
Today Lynn Redwood – former head of Children’s Health Defense of an anti -vaccine team led by Kennedy – is going to show an report on the use of thimerosal in vaccines.
According to CBS News, Redwood was hired on the CDC to work in the vaccine security service.
The committee’s decision to discuss Thimerosal, a mercury conservative that has not been used in most vaccines for decades, is confusing, commented Dr. Hanagi.
As he explained, in the past, ACIP members specialized in vaccines and examined the recommendations for them for months.
But now Kennedy has chosen for the committee “people like him – people who have previously appeared to be biased against vaccines,” commented Dr. Paul Opet, a former member of the Acip and director of the Vaccines Information Center at Philadelphia Pediatric Hospital.
Commission’s recommendations may have a serious impact, Mostly in terms of compulsory vaccination and vaccine compensation by insurance companies.
Robert Kennedy Junior has supported false allegations against Covid vaccines in recent years, but also that there is a connection between some vaccines and autism, mainly through Children’s Health Defense.
Since taking over the US Ministry of Health in February, it has been deeply restructured state health services.