Atlanta – US Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Junior indicated that pediatricians who bother pediatricians on Wednesday by announcing inquiries in some of the long -setting questions about children’s footage.
Martin Coldorf, which opened for the first meeting of the Kennedy Committee, which was chosen for seven members, opened that it offers a working group to assess the “cumulative influence” of the pediatric vaccine table – the vaccination list presented at different times throughout childhood.
He also said that the evaluation is how two other shots are managed – one against hepatitis to wander the liver and another that combines water chickenpox protection with MMR, measles, mumps, and German measles vaccines.
It was an early mark on how to reshape the fortification committee for fortification practices by Kennedy, a pioneering anti -action activist before becoming a senior health official in the country. He launched the 17 -member painting this month and replaced it with a group that includes many of the busts.
Participants listen to a meeting of the Consulting Committee in the immunization practices at the Disease Control Center, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Atlanta.
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“The vaccines are not good or bad,” said Coldorf. “We learn more about vaccines over time” and must “keep up with.”
His advertisement reflects a common message from skeptics of vaccines: that many shots may overwhelm the immune system of children or that the ingredients may accumulate to cause damage. Scientists say that these allegations have been investigated again and again without any signs of attention.
Dr. Paul Ofit, a vaccine expert at the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, said that children today are exposed to fewer antigens – immune restoring components – more than their ancestors despite getting more doses, due to the improvement of vaccine technology.
The American Academy of Pediatrics announced on Wednesday that it will continue to publish its children’s vaccine schedule, but now it will do so independently of the ACIP, describing it “is no longer a reliable operation.”
“The narration that the current vaccine policies are defective and need to” reform “distortion. “These policies have provided trillion dollars and millions of lives.”
ACIP, which has been created for more than 60 years, helps the centers for diseases and prevent them to determine who must be vaccinated for a long list of diseases, and when. These recommendations have a significant impact on whether insurance covers vaccines and where they are available, such as pharmacies.
After Kennedy’s sudden dismissal of the group’s current experts, a number of the best vaccine scientists resigned at the Center for Disease Control – including some who lead to reporting data and examining presentations in ACIP meetings – or were transferred from previous positions.
Shortly before a meeting on Wednesday, a Virginia -based gynecologist resigned in the committee. According to the Trump administration, he withdrew during a customary review of the financial property of the members.
Scientists show data that Covid-19 vaccines protect women and pregnant children
First on the agenda of the committee on Wednesday, Covid-19 vaccines were. Kennedy has already avoided the painting and announced that the vaccine will not now be recommended for healthy children or pregnant women.
However, the scientists of the Disease Control Center told the committee that vaccination was “the best protection” during pregnancy, and they said that most of the children who were transferred to the hospital for Covid-19 during the past year were not imprisoned.
Covid-19 still represents a threat to public health, which leads to 32,000 to 51,000 American deaths and more than 250,000 hospitals since last fall, according to the Center for Disease Control. Most of them are at risk of hospitalization are the elderly and children under the age of 2 – especially infants under the age of 6 months and who can get some protection if their mother is immunized during pregnancy, according to the presentation of the Disease Control Center.
The new advisers have not been asked to vote on Kennedy’s recommendations, which raises uncertainty about the ease of access to people from reaching Covid-19 vaccines this fall.
After CDC employees have identified multiple overlapping systems that continue to track the safety of vaccine, many consultants asked whether the real world data is trustworthy.
The committee will vote on RSV protection
After that, the committee addressed the RSV, or the respiratory creature virus, a common cause of cold -like symptoms that can be dangerous to infants.
In 2023, US health officials began recommending two new pads to protect infants – an anti -laboratory body for new iron and vaccine for pregnant women – experts probably say an improvement in infant deaths.
The newly approved antibodies from another company and vote on updated recommendations will discuss.
Influenza shot recommendations to discuss
In its meetings in June, the committee usually revives the two Americans for a period of 6 months and above to obtain a influenza snapshot, and helps green lighting in the annual autumn vaccination campaign.
But the selected vote on Thursday is also controversial.
The painting was appointed to consider a portfolio in a sub -group of influenza shots claimed by Kennedy and some of the autism control groups. In the preparation, the Disease Control Center has published a new report confirming that the research does not show any link between the portfolio, the axalosal, autism or any other neurological development disorders.
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Nergard mentioned from Washington.
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