The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Wednesday announced eight new members of the Independent Vaccine Advisory Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some of which have been critical of shooting, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It arrives only two days after Kennedy eliminated the 17 members in the session of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), claiming that the panel was full of conflicts of interest and was a “rubber stamp” for all vaccines.
The ACIP makes recommendations on the safety, efficacy and clinical need of vaccines, and CDCs have the last word about whether or not to accept recommendations.
Kennedy said In an X post that new members include “highly accredited scientists, leading public health experts and some of the most successful doctors in the United States. All these people are committed to evidence -based medicine, standard gold science and common sense.”
The new members will be in a Next ACIP meeting Scheduled to be held between June 25 and June 27, according to Kennedy. The meeting is to discuss new recommendations for several vaccines, including HPV vaccine and COVID-19 vaccine.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testifies to the Senate Committee hearing on allocations on the budget of the Department of Health and Human Services, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 20, 2025.
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“The Committee will review the security and efficacy data for the current schedule too,” Kennedy wrote in the publication in X.
The new eight members seem to have solid credentials related to medicine, public health, epidemiology and statistics, but with less emphasis on credentials related to immunology, virology and vaccinology compared to the previous committees.
Kennedy told ABC News on Tuesday that ACIP replacements would not be “anti-vaxxers.” However, some of the new members have previously defended anti-vacuna feelings, especially around COVID-19 vaccines and RNM technology.
One of them, Dr. Robert Malone, who made some first taxpayers to MRNA vaccine technology, disseminated erroneous information during Covid-19 pandemic, affirm that people were “hypnotized” In main ideas of belief about COVID-19, such as vaccination.
Resef Levi, another freshly appointed member, has previously published an investigation not reviewed by the surgeon of the surgeon of Florida, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, in Covid-19 vaccines, suggesting that healthy people have died due to shooting.
Another of the new members, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, was co -author of the Great Barrington Declaration, together with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Health Institutes.
Published in October 2020 and named for the city of Massachusetts in which he was recruited, the Great Declaration of Barrington He asked that COVID-19 blocks be avoided and a new plan to handle the pandemic protecting the most vulnerable people is avoided, but allowing the majority to resume normal activities, achieving the immunity of the flock naturally, a plan criticized As “non -etiical” by Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, general director of the World Health Organization.
At least four of the eight members seem to have been influential in Kennedy’s beliefs. Statistics news They reported that Malone, Kuldorff and two other new members, Vicky Pebsworth and Dr. Cody Meissner, appear in the dedication in the secretary’s book, “the true Anthony Fauci”, who tries to undermine the work of the former health official and questions his motivations before and during the pandémica.
It is not clear if Kennedy plans to name more members for ACIP
