Vaccine panel fired by Kennedy had lowest rate of financial conflicts since 2000, study shows
By Nancy Lapid
(Reuters) -Conflicts of interest on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee were at historic lows around the time when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members in June, new data published in a medical journal on Monday showed.
Kennedy had said, based on findings from a 2007 report, that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was rife with conflicts.
The new study published in JAMA found that between 2000 and 2024, ACIP's annual reported conflict of interest rate declined from 42.8% to 5%.
ACIP advises on which groups of people should take each vaccine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and when they should be administered.
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