Kennedy's New Advisers indicate at 1st mtg to Broaden Scrutiny of Childhood Vaccines

[Demovictory9]

RFK Jr.’s Handpicked Vaccine Advisers Are Set to Meet for the First Time - The New York Times https://share.google/b2PQoZbR7tlgSVoED

Kennedy’s New Advisers to Broaden Scrutiny of Childhood Vaccines
The panel will revisit the hepatitis B shot given at birth, among others. The former head of an anti-vaccine group has been hired as a special employee at H.H.S.


Just minutes into the first meeting of scientific advisers appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., it was clear that the skeptical panelists intended to upend longstanding vaccine recommendations in the United States, particularly those pertaining to children.

The meeting of the committee on Wednesday marks a remarkable and fraught moment in public health. Mr. Kennedy has replaced the gatekeepers of immunization policy in the United States, mostly scientists with deep expertise, with people who often have been critical of vaccine safety and efficacy.

The decisions of the panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, may have a powerful impact on the availability of the shots. Insurance companies and government programs like Medicaid are required to cover immunizations that A.C.I.P. recommends, and states base their school mandates on the panel’s guidance.

Martin Kulldorff, formerly a professor of medicine at Harvard University and the committee’s chair, began the meeting by inviting people to freely share their skepticism of vaccines and chastising the media for fanning the “flames of vaccine hesitancy” by labeling some new panelists as anti-vaccine.

[Captain Zero]

1. Reinventing the wheel

That doesn't need to be reinvented. Then claiming it's policy.

[-misanthroptimist]

2. I know that they haven't thought this through

Let's take a minute and think it through for ourselves.

Let's say they get rid of most or all required vaccines.

The mortality rate for children 0-5 years old prior to vaccination in the US was 46%.

A lot of the anti-vaxxers tend towards larger families. I wonder if they are prepared to bury millions of children each years? And that is just for young children.

In addition to outright death, there are other effects -blindness, deafness, mobility, etc.

They are setting themselves (and us) up for a disaster.

Of course we have much more medical knowledge now, but that costs money in the US. How many families are going to be bankrupt, possibly homeless, by the idiots Kennedy believes and the policies that this great nitwit is going to institute?

[Demovictory9]

4. That one idiot mom, who lost her kid to measles, wasnt too upset

[-misanthroptimist]

5. I doubt that that will be the majority reaction

But imagine putting ideology (based on absolutely nothing!) over the life of your child.

[Passages]

3. 2nd most dangerous man in America. RFK Jr

I despise this man.