RFK JR vaccines panel for consideration long -approved strikes for children

New members of the US Health Group Roberto F Kennedy Jr. Vaccines will consider schedules for a long-approved immunization for children and adolescents.

Seven members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP) met for the first time on Wednesday, a few weeks after Kennedy rejected all 17 of his predecessors.

ACIP recommends who should be vaccinated and when in US Disease Control Centers (CDC).

On the eve of the meeting, health and policy experts expressed concern about the qualifications of new members – several of which are the critics of the vaccine.

Health Secretary caused upset when he June 9 deleted all 17 members AcipAnd then he picked up eight new members working on the panel – including the one who refused a few hours before the first meeting.

The meeting on Wednesday began with the new chairman Martin Kuldorf, which told the panel that he was fired from the work of Professor Harvard University because they refused to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

D -Rus Kuldorf also announced that the board will launch new working groups to study vaccination schedules and vaccinations about child vaccinations, which were approved seven or more years ago.

He said he would consider whether to give hepatitis B the newborn vaccine, and as a result of preventing infection that causes liver cancer.

He said the measles vaccine schedules would also be considered.

Studying vaccines, licensed seven or more years ago, is concerned because it believes that the process of approval has been undertaken, said Bill Hanazh, Professor of the Harvard School of Public Health School.

“I can’t think about any rational reason you would look at it and think that’s it,” he said.

Initially, the group was intended for voting on the recommendations on RSV shots, the respiratory virus that could be dangerous for babies, but it was delayed.

On Thursday, it is planned to hear a presentation on the use of the Timerosal in vaccines provided by Lin Redwood, a former leader of children’s health care, an anti-vaccine group of Kennedy.

MS Redwood has been hired by CDC to work in the vaccine security office, BBC CBS News reports.

Dr. Hanazha, solution for discussion thimerosal, based on mercury, which was not used in most vaccines, is surprised, said Dr. Hanazha.

In the past, he said, ACIP members had a wide range of vaccine examination and would have studied vaccine recommendations for months.

This time Kennedy chose for the panel “People who are like it – people in the past, who have shown anti -quartin,” said D -PO -Pala Office, a former member of the ACIP and the Director of the Center for Vaccines at the Philadelphia Children’s Hospital.

One of the new members of the ACIP was Dr. Michael Ross, but this week he responded on the eve of the financial possession of the members, said the Department of Health and Human Services.

The choice of Kennedy also caused criticism from Republican Senator Bill Cassidi, a doctor who was skeptical of the vote to confirm Kennedy as a health secretary of his vaccines.

In a report on X Casidi stated that the board should not continue their meeting from the small group and the lack of CDC director to approve their recommendations.

“Although the ACIP has scientific powers, many have no significant experience of studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology,” he wrote.

“In particular, some lack the experience of studying new technologies, such as MRNA vaccines, and may even have pre -prejudice against them.”