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US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abolished all members of a scientific committee on Monday who advises Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to use vaccines and are committed to replacing them with his own choices.
Major doctors and public health groups have criticized this decision to oust 17 members of the Vaccination Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP).
Kennedy did not say who he would name the panel, but said that he would meet in just two weeks in Atlanta.
Although it is generally not considered a partisan council, the whole current list of committee members was appointed from the administration of the American president Joe Biden.
“Without withdrawing the current members, Trump’s current administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members before 2028,” wrote Kennedy in an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal. “Clean scanning is necessary to restore public confidence in vaccine science.”
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When reached by phone, the now formidable president of the Panel – Dr. Helen Keipp Talbot from Vanderbilt University – refused to comment. But another member of the panel, Noel Brewer at the University of North Carolina, said that he and other members of the committee had received an email on Monday afternoon who said their services in the committee had been dismissed but had given no reason.
“I supposed that I would continue to sit on the committee for my full mandate,” said Brewer, who joined the panel last summer.
Brewer is a behavior specialist whose research examines why people are vaccinated and the means to improve vaccination coverage. The question of whether people are vaccinated are widely influenced by what their doctors recommend, and doctors have followed the advice of the ACIP.
“Until today, the recommendations of the ACIP were the Order for what insurers should pay, what providers should recommend and what the public should seek,” he said.
Committee not consulted
But Kennedy has already taken the unusual measure to change the COVVI -19 recommendations without consulting the Committee – a decision criticized by groups of doctors and defenders of public health.
“We don’t know what the future has in store for us,” said Brewer. “Admittedly, supplier organizations have already started to turn away from the AIPI.”
Kennedy said that committee members had too many interests. Currently, committee members are required to declare any potential of such conflicts, as well as commercial interests, which occur during their mandate. They must also disclose any possible conflict at the start of each public meeting.
But Dr. Tom Frieden, president and chief executive officer of Resolve to save lives and former director of the CDC, said that Kennedy’s actions were based on false affirmations of interest and established “a dangerous and unprecedented action that makes our families less safe” by potentially reducing access to vaccines for millions of people.
“Make no mistake: the politicization of the ACIP as secretary Kennedy will mine public confidence under the guise of improving it,” he said in a statement. “We will come back to this as a serious error which has sacrificed decades of scientific rigor, undermined the confidence of the public and opened the door to marginal theories rather than facts.”
“ Not how democracies work ”
Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American public Health Association, called Kennedy’s Mass Wonter “a coup”.
“This is not how democracies work. It is not good for the health of the nation,” he said.
Benjamin said this decision raises real concerns as to whether the future members of the Committee will be considered impartial. He added that Kennedy went against what he said to the legislators and the public, and the public Health Association plans to watch Kennedy “like a hawk”.
“He breaks a promise,” said Benjamin. “He said he was not going to do that.”
Dr. Bruce A. Scott, president of the American Medical Association, qualified the committee to trust the trust and data trust advice and said that Kennedy’s decision, associated with a drop in vaccination rates across the country, will help increase an increase in vaccination preventable diseases.
“Today’s action … undermines this confidence and upsets a transparent process that saved countless lives,” said Scott in a press release.
The committee had been in a state of flow since Kennedy took over. His first meeting this year had been delayed when the United States Ministry of Health and Social Services suddenly postponed its February meeting.
During Kennedy confirmationCassidy had expressed his concerns about the preservation of the committee, saying that he had asked for insurance that Kennedy would keep the current vaccine recommendations.
The web page that presented the committee members was deleted on Monday evening, shortly after Kennedy’s announcement.
