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American health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. appointed eight members on Wednesday to sit in a key panel of advisers against vaccines after having suddenly dismissed the 17 members of experts in experts.
They will sit on the Consultative Committee for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States (ACIP). Eight is the minimum number authorized by law.
Four of the new members have already worked on committees associated with the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration or both.
Kennedy named Joseph R. Hibbeln, Martin Kulldorff, Retsef Levi, Robert W. Malone, Cody Meissner, James Pagano, Vicky Pebsworth and Michael A. Ross.
Meissner and Pebsworth sat the advisory committee for FDA vaccines and organic products, and Meissner was also served in APIP.
Kulldorff is an architect of the Great Barrington Declaration, who called for a lighter public health response to COVI-19 in October 2020, and previously served in a safety subgroup of ACIP.
“All these people are engaged in medicine based on evidence, standard science and common sense,” said Kennedy in an article on X.
Kennedy said new members are committed to demanding final security and efficiency data before making new vaccine recommendations.
Kennedy, who has long questioned the security of vaccines unlike scientific evidence, allegedly alleged that previous members of the panel, many of whom were appointed by President Joe Biden, had conflicts of interest, without providing conflict of specific members. He said this decision was necessary “to restore public confidence in vaccine science.”
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The United States Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has deleted each member from a scientific committee who advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccination. The specialist in infectious diseases, Dr. Isaac Bogoch, says that this decision lacks transparency and risks eroding public confidence in vaccines.
The members of the committee said that their ACIP work follows a rigorous verification of their financial ties and that they should refrain from votes on any vaccine for which they have a conflict.
Many groups of doctors have expressed their concern and suspected concerning the unprecedented abolition of Kennedy of all the previous members of the panel.
The American Medical Association, the largest group of doctors in the country, called for an investigation to the Senate on their dismissal and sent to Kennedy a letter calling for an immediate reversal of changes.
