CDC vaccination consultants will examine the immunization plan for children: recordings

Martin Kullldorff, chairman of the advisory committee for immunization practices, said that it was time to rebuild public trust in federal health institutions during a meeting on Wednesday at the centers for the control and prevention of diseases.

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In his first meeting with one Completely new roster in placeA federal committee that helps with the manufacture of vaccine policy in the USA gave his plans to examine the security of the vaccination plan in childhood and other priorities, the many years of concerns of the secretary for health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,.

The advisory board for immunization practices or ACIP started its two -day session at the centers for disease control and prevention in Atlanta on Wednesday morning.

The committee for independent experts, which the CDC gives recommendations for the State’s vaccination plan and the immunization policy, has recently become a flashpoint.

Kennedy at the beginning of this month All 17 members booted The existing committee, which had been appointed by President Joe Biden, and replaced it with a smaller selection, including several, which at times received a follower for a followers. Promotion misleading and inaccurate information about Covid-19 vaccines.

The new working group will examine the vaccination plan for children

The meeting began with Martin Kullldorff, an epidemiologist who was formerly at the Harvard Medical School, who now acted as an ACIP chairman and called for the need to rebuild “public trust” in federal health institutions after pandemic and what he described as “bloated promises” about the cowid.

In this sense, he said that ACIP would set up a new working group for the investigation and evaluation of the cumulative effects of the recommended vaccination plan, including the “interaction effects between different vaccines, the total number of vaccines, cumulative quantities of vaccine components and the relative time of different vaccines”.

“The number of vaccines that our children and adolescents receive today exceed what children receive in most other developed nations and what most of us have received in this room as children,” said Kulldorff.

Older vaccines receive another look

Another new working group will examine “vaccines that have not been checked for more than seven years,” he said. The topics that you will record include the universal recommendation for the administration of hepatitis B shot on the day of birth; how children are immunized against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella or chicken quods; as well as the time of measles vaccine to solve religious objections to some parents.

These new priorities already make some nerves the vaccines via the future ACIP direction.

“You signal the interest in reviewing long -term questions about the safety of vaccines, open problems that have been the focus of critics of vaccines for decades and give them the legitimacy that is associated with this government consulting committee that has been respected so far” Jason SchwartzAssociate Professor at the Yale School of Public Health.

Kennedy’s unprecedented decision to delete ACIP at his claim that conflicts of interest have affected the committee. Although NPR has found The fact that a government report often quotes Kennedy in order to do his case does not support this.

Together with Kulldorff, Dr. Robert Malone – An ACIP member selected by Kennedy – paid as an expert in legal disputes against the vaccine manufacturer Merck. Both said they had no conflicts of interest in the topics discussed at the meeting on Wednesday.

Malone said he went through “three months of checking and training” and that potential conflicts of interest were “lacking” by the Ministry of Health and Human Services and CDC.

The comment suggests that Kennedy’s efforts to overhaul acip may have been in the works for some time, although new committee members were only appointed two weeks ago.

Much of the first morning of the meeting was devoted to information from CDC scientists about the data on Covid and vaccines against the disease. Part of the presentation seemed to question the most recent decision by Kennedy and the Trump administration To remove the recommendation Vaccination of healthy children and pregnant women.

A film that summarized the epidemiology showed that most children under the age of 2 who are hospitalized had no underlying diseases and that the results in children can be serious, where 1 out of 4 is approved in the intensive care unit. The data also underlined the risk of children under 6 months, “supporting the transfer of maternal antibody” because there are no permitted shots.