
Trump’s former surgeon general raises concerns about vaccine panel overhauled by RFK Jr.
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Trump’s former surgeon general raises concerns about vaccine panel overhauled by RFK Jr.
Dr. Jerome Adams: There’s so much going on. I want to try to help people compartmentalize it. I think about people, policies, and priorities. The policies and procedures are concerning. The chair of the committee for the first time ever is someone who doesn’t have any experience serving on the committee and was involved in an anti-vaccine litigation.
Well, that’s a great place to start. And there’s so much going on. I want to try to help people compartmentalize it.
I think about people, policies, and priorities. And, as you mentioned, very troubling that there was the abrupt dismissal of all of the 17 prior ACIP members, that they were replaced by seven. And you may have heard this week that the head of the Health Committee, Senator Cassidy, actually called on this ACIP meeting to be postponed until it was fully staffed and staffed with appropriate individuals.
The people who were put on this committee by RFK Jr., many of them have conflicts of interest that weren’t disclosed. They have made money off of vaccine litigation. They don’t have the expertise that other members do. So the people are concerning. The policies and procedures are concerning. This is unprecedented.
The chair of the committee for the first time ever is someone who doesn’t have any experience serving on the committee and, as I mentioned, was involved in an anti-vaccine litigation, which was not disclosed. The fact that you had for the first time ever groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics choosing not to participate in this meeting, unprecedented.
And then, finally, the priorities. So, people, policies, priorities, we saw a lot of time spent in the last two days discussing long-debunked theories and really not as much time as you would have hoped focused on things like, should we be getting a COVID vaccine this fall?