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Who are RFK Jr.'s New ACIP Liaison Representatives?
RFK Jr proposes a new charter for ACIP and adds four new liaison members. How anti-vax are they?
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Who are RFK Jr.'s New ACIP Liaison Representatives? Four organizations supportive of his anti-vaccine agenda, explains @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sto….
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This graphic should alarm you, boring as it may seem at first glance. This is about YOU and what your health insurance is required to pay for.
Example: ACIP and USPSTF have either been captured by anti-science members or forbidden to meet.
They decide what must be covered by insurance.
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HHS has appealed the ruling that invalidated RFK's ACIP picks and stayed its votes. The advisory panel continues to be at a standstill for now.
#IDsky #healthpolicy #healthlaw #pediatrics #AAP #vaccines #hepB #COVID #publichealth
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Trump administration appeals ruling that blocked RFK Jr.'s vaccine overhaul
The March 16 ruling stemmed from a lawsuit brought by major medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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BREAKING: HHS is appealing the ruling in the case filed by AAP, which stalled RFK Jr.'s changes to ACIP and the childhood vaccine schedule
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HHS appeals ruling that stalled many of Kennedy's vaccine policy changes
The appeal is the latest twist in the closely watched lawsuit filed by the American Association of Pediatrics.
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The Problem With the Hidden V-Safe Data Narrative: It was not hidden, it was presented to ACIP constantly, and showed no new safety signals. Like most anti-vaccine activists, Senator Ron Johnson lies early and often, explains @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sto….
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The Problem With the Hidden V-Safe Data Narrative
Anti-Vaccine Politician Ron Johnson holds another Senate hearing about vaccines.
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Being appointed to the ACIP used to be a mark of hard-earned expertise too. Everything he touches withers…
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net
It is increasingly difficult to explain to younger lawyers and law students that working at the Department of Justice used to be a prestigious job in the legal profession, rather than a place where you do...whatever this is
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Anti-Vaccine Groups Given Unprecedented Access to CDC Vaccine Panel - four anti-vaccine groups made liaisons to ACIP, by @walkerbragman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/imp….
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Anti-Vaccine Groups Given Unprecedented Access to CDC Vaccine Panel
Robert Kennedy Jr. has added new liaisons to ACIP, tapping old allies from the anti-vaccine movement.
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The bill, which passed both houses of the legislature, detaches CT from ACIP and clarifies that the religious freedom restoration act does not apply to school immunization mandate, ending the last legal challenge to CT's repeal of its religious exemption. ctmirror.org/2026/04/23/c...
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Lamont's vaccine bill HB 5044 gets final passage in CT Senate
The proposal would expand the power of the CT public health commissioner to establish vaccine recommendations, among other measures.
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OMFG, Bhattacharya censoring a CDC study because it contradicted his MAHA movement’s anti-vaxx views and firing NIH staff whose views he disapproves of, RFK Jr firing the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices & replacing them with anti-vaxx activists, and now this. Chilling censorship
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social
Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.
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New Osterholm Update podcast episode: Asking the Right Questions
🎧 Listen as @mtosterholm.bsky.social and co-host Chris Dall discuss:
-The most recent nomination for the CDC Director
-Changes to the charter of the ACIP
-A recent, misleading poll on public support for vaccines
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ACIP charter is renewed as meetings remain on indefinite hold
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ACIP charter is renewed as meetings remain on indefinite hold - The Cancer Letter
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, renewed its charter April 6. In an announcement in the Federal Register, new criteria for ACIP members were rolled out with a focus on “geographical balance” and a “balance of speciality areas.” To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site […]
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“States frequently relied on evidence-based clinical guidance from national medical societies in the absence of updated ACIP recommendations,” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-….
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US states took divergent actions in absence of federal COVID vaccine guidance last respiratory virus season
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Highlights:
"* CDC left without advisory panel to recommend new or updated vaccines
* Insurance coverage for new vaccines may be impacted, experts warn
* Several FDA-approved vaccines await ACIP guidance"
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COVID shots, newer vaccines in limbo after US court halts Kennedy’s advisory panel
Americans may face the next respiratory disease season without clear guidance for COVID shots and updated flu vaccines after a federal court ruling last month left several vaccines in limbo, and raise...
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Experts Blast Plan to Alter ACIP Members' Expertise Requirements www.medpagetoday.com/infe….
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Experts Blast Plan to Alter ACIP Members' Expertise Requirements
Revised charter opens the door to bringing back nixed panelists, policies
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Disgraced ACIP member and scientific disinformation trebuchet Robert Malone is spilling tea all over podcasts and Twitter.
He alleges that Trump is hiding information about COVID19 vaccines because he Trump doesn’t want his accomplishments besmirched.
Malone also calls out Marty Makary.
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What does the new ACIP charter mean for us? It is not, as RFK Jr.’s flying monkey claims, “routine statutory requirements and do not signal any broader policy shift.”
It’s designed to pack the committee that makes U.S. vaccine recommendations with anti-vaccine advocates and organizations.
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Yeah, so as I had feared, RFK Jr. went and did it. New charter for ACIP is out today.
Quote from @drdemetre.bsky.social
“The new charter shifts ACIP into an organization focused more on risk and has provided a platform for organizations that have historically been opponents of vaccination”.
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New rules for CDC vaccine panel aim to address lawsuit, empower Kennedy’s allies
The panel has become a flashpoint as RFK Jr.'s health department worked to limit the number of recommended childhood shots.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
The Charter of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) expires on April 1, 2026. I have no knowledge of the procedure for drafting and implementing a new Charter, but it sure seems like RFK Jr. is going to use this opportunity to further destroy public health.
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Take 2 by RFK in his bid to remake ACIP: the charter for the committee was edited to (among other changes)
-add RFK-aligned liaison orgs
-Change language on the requisite expertise of members (a subject of the aap lawsuit)
w/ @helenbranswell.bsky.social
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New rules for CDC vaccine panel aim to address lawsuit, empower Kennedy’s allies
The panel has become a flashpoint as RFK Jr.'s health department worked to limit the number of recommended childhood shots.
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The new ACIP charter is now up. www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa... I think changes fall into five general categories, and I spelled it out on Substack, since there's no space here :
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The new ACIP charter includes liaison memberships for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Physicians for Informed Consent, and the Independent Medical Alliance.
None of these are expert societies and all of them have a history of disseminating antivaccine propaganda.
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ACOG Withdraws From CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices jamanetwork.com/journals/….
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When RFK Jr. is sanctioned for breaking the rules, he just changes the rules:
Last month, a judge ruled the HHS had violated procedures re: appointing members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), including rules in its charter, by...
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RFK Jr. maps out a new vaccine panel strategy
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked slate of vaccine advisers was frozen by a federal judge last month, who said many of the members lacked the qualifications to make recommendations on immunizations.
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