US EditionFive new members named to influential CDC vaccine advisory committee days ahead of key meeting
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all 17 previous appointees, adding five new members to the CDC vaccine advisory panel to influence upcoming vaccine policy decisions.
- On Monday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. selected five new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices members, expanding the panel before its September 18 and September 19 meeting in Atlanta.
- Kennedy rapidly replaced the ACIP members with eight of his own candidates, although one withdrew during vetting, and joined seven others he named earlier.
- The new appointees include Hilary Blackburn, Dr. Kirk Milhoan, Dr. Evelyn Griffin, Dr. Raymond Pollak and Catherine Stein; Milhoan and Griffin have criticized COVID policies and questioned mRNA vaccines.
- The new additions are expected to participate in the meeting and vote on recommendations for the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine, the Hepatitis B vaccine, and this year's updated COVID-19 vaccines, influencing the Vaccines for Children program and state and local vaccine laws.
- Critics say top medical organizations and public health groups question the group's advice, while Over 1,000 current and former health agency workers call for Kennedy's resignation and states reduce reliance on ACIP guidance.
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Travel & Lifestyle: RFK Jr. Appoints 5 New Members To CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel – U-S-NEWS.COM
Sept. 15 (Reuters) – U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday appointed five new members to the revamped advisory panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy. This comes ahead of the panel’s meeting this week to review guidance on shots for hepatitis B, measles-mumps-rubella-varicella and COVID-19, in a closely watched session that could further reshape the federal vaccination policy. Kennedy,…
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We've all become entirely too familiar with ACIP, the CDC panel that discusses and recommends vaccination schedules across a wide swath of vaccines. The method by which ACIP became part of the general American lexicon traces all the way back to June, when RFK Jr., as head of HHS, fired every single member of the…
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