61 h. ago RFK’s vaccine panel to spend days discussing and voting on an ingredient we barely use anymore

The vaccine advisory panel will vote on whether to ban a preservative called thimerosal

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69 h. ago Member of RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel withdraws over conflict of interest

Dr Michael Ross was involved in multiple private healthcare firms and withdrew after a review of financial holdingsA member of the health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s newly overhauled federal vaccine advisory panel withdrew after a conflict of interest review, a spokesperson has told the Guardian.Dr Michael Ross, who was involved in multiple private healthcare companies, withdrew after review of his financial holdings. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago GOP senator who voted for RFK Jr despite misgivings is now calling for stop to Trump HHS boss’ vaccine panel

Health secretary removed all members of vaccine advisory panel and added several vaccine skeptics

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7 d. ago CDC vaccine panel to review ingredient RFK Jr has targeted for removal

ACIP panel to discuss influenza vaccines that contain thimerosal, which Kennedy called ‘dangerous’ in 2014 bookA key vaccine advisory panel reconstituted by health secretary and vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr is slated to discuss thimerosal-containing influenza vaccines in its first meeting – an ingredient which has been a fixation of anti-vaccine activists for decades.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will hold two separate votes later this month: one on “influenza vaccines” and one on influenza vaccines that contain thimerosal. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ‘Bobby Kennedy is going to kill more people than any Cabinet secretary’: James Carville warns of RFK Jr’s vaccine plan

RFK Jr. recently purged all 17 member of CDC vaccine advisory panel, replacing them with members experts say are critical of vaccines

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1 week ago Dismissed members of CDC vaccine committee call Kennedy's actions 'destabilizing'

The 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel say Health Secretary Robert F

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1 week ago RFK Jr claims one of his new vaccine panel members works at GW University. The school says he doesn’t

Health secretary claimed Dr Michael Ross, newly appointed to immunization committee, works at two institutions that now say he has not been on their rosters for years

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2 w. ago RFK Jr reveals his plan for vaccine committee after he fired entire panel sparking ‘anti

‘None of these individuals will be ideological anti-vaxxers,’ health secretary says of new appointees to CDC vaccine advisory committee

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2 w. ago RFK Jr’s ‘clean sweep’ of CDC vaccine panel experts will erode public trust

Health officials, scientists and vaccine researchers sound alarm after health secretary fires 17 advisory membersRobert F Kennedy’s “clean sweep” of a critical vaccine advisory panel spread shock and dismay among health experts, as many warned the health secretary’s decision would erode trust in the US vaccine approval system.The secretary fired all 17 members of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) advisory committee for immunization practices (ACIP) – a group of scientific experts who recommend how vaccines should be administered and distributed. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago RFK Jr to remove all members of CDC panel advising on US vaccines

Health secretary says he’s getting rid of members sitting on panel of vaccine experts and reconstituting the committeeThe health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, is getting rid of all members sitting on a key US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts and reconstituting the committee, he said on Monday.Kennedy is retiring and replacing all 17 members of the CDC’s advisory committee for immunization practices, he wrote in piece published in the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading...

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