The federal government is officially back to work, and unfortunately, so is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The influence of public health in the country. Early next month, the panel of foreign advisers convened by Kennedy will meet again and perhaps take the sledgehammer to more goals.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently posted the following agenda for the upcoming Immunization Advisory Committee, scheduled for December 4th and 5th. Although it is not clear exactly what acip will vote on during this meeting, some of its members will try to remove the old recommendations of decades that children should be vaccinated against hepatitis B starting to stop – a certain decision that the lawmakers want to block.
“I want to make America healthier, and you don’t start by stopping the recommendations that have made us healthier,” Senator Billidy Cassidy (R-Louisiana) told CBS News’ Face the nation In an interview released on Sunday.
Stolen Acip
Earlier this year, Kennedy dismissed all 17 members of acip, a panel of outside experts who help guide the CDC’s immunization policies. Then he added new advisers, many of whom – like Kennedy himself – had a history of spreading lies about vaccinations.
In its two meetings so far, the aciged accid issued several recommendations that were accepted by the vaccination organization. It has moved to ban the few remaining vaccines that contain thimerosal, for example, an ingredient that antivaxpers have been accused of creating by anecdotal evidence. Although Thimerosal was removed from many vaccines as a safety measure in the early 2000s, studies failed to find any link to Autism, and autism rates only continued to rise. ACIP also called for children under four to no longer receive measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) vaccines, a previous CDC decision that left it up to parents.
These decisions, along with ACIP’s general shift from science-based testing, help fill the CDC’s internal collapse. At the end of August, Rfk Jr. fired former CDC director Susan Monarez just four weeks into her role, reportedly because she refused to sign off on ACIP’s mandates without discussion; Shortly thereafter, senior CDC leadership resigned.
So far, ACIP’s worst decisions have been limited in their scale. Few vaccines today contain Thimerosal, and most families do not vaccinate their young children with the MMRV shot. But the potential removal of the hepatitis B vaccine threatens to be more disruptive and damaging.
Fear of the invisible
Hepatitis B is spread through direct contact with body fluids. In adults, it is usually transmitted through sex or sharing dirty needles. But this virus can be transmitted from an infected Mother to the child she gives birth to.
Although hepatitis B infection can be controlled with antivirals if it is found to be chronic, there is currently no cure. Most children with hepatitis B will develop it for the rest of their lives, and about a quarter will develop serious health problems, including cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Thirty years ago, the ACIP and the CDC began recommending that everyone get the hepatitis B vaccine at an early age, eventually transitioning to the first shot. This strategy was adopted only after previous attempts to vaccinate high-risk groups failed with very low cases. And since its introduction, the rates of hepatitis B, especially in children, have fallen sharply in the U.S. The vaccine is also safe, such as anaphylaxis, which is found uncontrollably and uncontrollably and uncontrollably and uncontrollably and illegal control and illegal control and different control and illegal control and different control.
At the last ACIP meeting in September, CDC staff opposed the funding of birth vaccination and warned that many children would almost certainly get hepatitis B if the policy were instituted. Both sessions of the ACIP run for a long time, and at the last minute – among many confusions about whether some members actually voted for a vote prepared suddenly on hepatitis B. However, it turns out that the return of the money of Friday B.
The inclusion of the childhood immunization schedule on Thursday’s agenda is also very concerning. Antivaxxers have made no secret of their desire to release a schedule to avoid it if possible. Advocacy for Children’s Health, the advocacy group founded by Rfk Jr., hosted a “moment of truth” earlier this month. During the conference, Mark Gorton, President of the Maha Institute – a group founded in Bolster Kennedy “America’s plea for life to be removed.”
As before, the modified acip does not reveal the content of its votes scheduled for this next meeting. So it is still up in the air how its members will go about trying to change the system. However, there is no reason to be optimistic about what lies in the public life of the country under the rule of Rfk Jr.
