Anonymous wrote:Soon Americans will die as often as the Amish. Wait, how long do they live again?

So you advocate for isolated communities for all?

Here is the article from WSJ, and Kennedy Jr. isn't wrong that this was a group of people who may not have had the American people as their main concern:

That is why, under my direction, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is putting the restoration of public trust above any pro- or antivaccine agenda. The public must know that unbiased science guides the recommendations from our health agencies. This will ensure the American people receive the safest vaccines possible.

Today, we are taking a bold step in restoring public trust by totally reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). We are retiring the 17 current members of the committee, some of whom were last-minute appointees of the Biden administration. Without removing the current members, the current Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until 2028.

ACIP evaluates the safety, efficacy and clinical need of the nation’s vaccines and passes its findings on to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine. It has never recommended against a vaccine—even those later withdrawn for safety reasons. It has failed to scrutinize vaccine products given to babies and pregnant women. To make matters worse, the groups that inform ACIP meet behind closed doors, violating the legal and ethical principle of transparency crucial to maintaining public trust.

In 2000 the House issued the results of an investigation of ACIP and another vaccine advisory committee under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration—the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. It found that enforcement of its conflict-of-interest rules was weak to nonexistent. Committee members regularly participated in deliberations and advocated products in which they had a financial stake. The CDC issued conflict-of-interest waivers to every committee member. Four out of eight ACIP members who voted in 1997 on guidelines for the Rotashield vaccine, subsequently withdrawn because of severe adverse events, had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies developing other rotavirus vaccines. A 2009 HHS inspector-general report echoed these findings. Few committee members completed full conflict-of-interest forms—97% of them had omissions. The CDC took no significant action to remedy the omissions.

These conflicts of interest persist. Most of ACIP’s members have received substantial funding from pharmaceutical companies, including those marketing vaccines. The problem isn’t necessarily that ACIP members are corrupt. Most likely aim to serve the public interest as they understand it. The problem is their immersion in a system of industry-aligned incentives and paradigms that enforce a narrow pro-industry orthodoxy. The new members won’t directly work for the vaccine industry. They will exercise independent judgment, refuse to serve as a rubber stamp, and foster a culture of critical inquiry—unafraid to ask hard questions.

A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science. In the 1960s, the world sought guidance from America’s health regulators, who had a reputation for integrity, scientific impartiality and zealous defense of patient welfare. Public trust has since collapsed, but we will earn it back.

Make a solid argument why this shouldn't happen. I am all ears.

Anonymous wrote:Soon Americans will die as often as the Amish. Wait, how long do they live again?

The Old Order Amish have a life expectancy of 71 while the greater US population has a life expectancy of 79. What conclusions can be drawn from those numbers?

Herein: a bunch of social media managers, benefits specialists, and self-described "recovering lawyers" make jokes about polio, considering themselves one part scientist and one part John Oliver.

Anonymous wrote:Hooboy. A bunch of DCUMers who know the name of not ACIP member are going to explain how those people are totally the best in the biz. Can't wait.

You’re not playing with a full deck. The simple facts are we are replacing immunologists and actual doctors with actual credentials with vaccine deniers who have an anti-vaccine agenda.

The bottom line is we are repeating history. This same vaccine denial happened during the Spanish flu. You people have always been around. You believe in conspiracy theories. Most likely because you have little control in your life or are otherwise disaffected. They’ve done studies on conspiracy theorists and really it comes down to a mental deficiency. But hey enjoy your day in the sun. Hope you don’t get bird flu. Or do. I don’t care.

Soon Americans will die as often as the Amish. Wait, how long do they live again?

Hooboy. A bunch of DCUMers who know the name of not ACIP member are going to explain how those people are totally the best in the biz. Can't wait.

Bring back Polio! Wheelchairs build character! #MAGA

I feel sorry for those not financially able to pay for vaccines for themselves via private doctors or through medical tourism.

Senator (Doctor) Cassidy must be pleased with himself.

The entire world needs to ban Americans from travel and entry until they upload proof of vaccination at this point. Americans are a bunch of idiots from a backwater 3rd world S hole of country that believes in things like magic elixirs, chelation therapy, stem cell soup, and sunshine will be the cure for the worst infectious diseases ever to afflict mankind.

RFK is the single worst person to ever hold public office. He is more damaging than any president ever elected. Just an utter clown show disaster of morons running the US into a 3rd world dump hell hole.

Make America Oregon Trail Again!

Conflicts of interests reported. Don't tell me the drug companies are being unethical with these Advisors?

So, basically, we're f****d when it comes to vaccines, right? But as long as the government is going after migrants, I'm not sure MAGA will notice or care.

Why would all these experts be dismissed? I have an idea why...