US pediatricians criticize RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel: ‘Truly an embarrassment’ | Robert F Kennedy Jr
Robert F Kennedy JR’s newly appointed vaccine advisory panel is faced with the criticism of pediatrician after explaining the plans to re -evaluate the existing vaccine programs for children and adolescents.
Experts warn that the movement seems to be designed to weaken the trust of the people on vaccination.
President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) infectious Diseases Committee Sean O’Lleary said during the press briefing on Wednesday that the rest of the world looked at the United States and the New Advisory Committee (Acıp) from the “fear of fear practices”.
O’Leary said, “At this point, what’s going on in ACIP,” he said.
Although the new ACIP launched chaos between the vaccine policy infrastructure during Wednesday meetings, AAP emphasized its need to continue its commitment to publish the publication of AAP, independent, science -based vaccine guides.
On Wednesday, he marked the first ACIP meeting, which was rejected by the Health Secretary Kennedy, a group, which was reported to have lost a member before the meeting and lost a member before the meeting was held. Some of these newly appointed have been associated with the spread of the wrong knowledge of vaccine.
AAP representatives refrained from participating because they saw the new ACIP as “illegitimate .. AAP’s own meeting was planned to follow the ACIP session immediately by giving pediatric experts the opportunity to respond to the statements and direction of the new committee.
“What we heard at this meeting was a really wrong narrative that what we hear at this meeting was flawed and that the existing vaccine policies should be corrected. This is completely wrong,” he said.
“Vaccination policies have saved millions of life, trillions of dollars, and our vaccination system is a model for the rest of the world.”
Among the early initiatives of Acıp are a separate working group that plans to examine vaccines that are not subject to a new examination, especially those who have not been examined for more than seven years. A vaccine that attracts attention immediately is the birth dose of hepatitis B. O’Lleary criticized the focus on reviewing the vaccine programs that say that it has been an anti -vaccine issue for many years ”.
A program review is good at first glance, but the truth is that these vaccines are always reviewed in a series of different mechanisms, security surveillance mechanisms and disease surveillance mechanisms. ”
“Hepatitis B birth dose is one of the cornerstones of our Hepatitis B prevention policy in the United States, and it was very successful in reducing the perinatal hepatitis B ratio,” he added.
AAP article He says that infants infected with hepatitis B at birth are likely to develop chronic infection and 90%. Without medical intervention, approximately 25% of these children will die of the disease.
Kennedy’s decision to overcome Acıp was concerned between medical experts. The examination of the new panel includes vaccines such as measles, mumps, measles and chickenpox (Cucciefox) and MMR shoot that protects against the Hepatitis B vaccine given at birth.
O’Lleary, “We need to maintain the higher scope in the US MMR, you see measles outbreaks in real time,” he said.
“We must maintain the scope of very high measles vaccination. And in my opinion, this ACIP debate is designed for bread in the measles vaccination.”
The US has now been based on the greatest measles epidemic for decades. The measles epidemic, which was centered in Western Texas, killed two unbelievable children and an adult and spread to neighboring states. Measles were declared from the United States in 2000, but spreading to vaccinated communities.
