“We are committed to the coverage of current vaccines to ensure access and affordability for this respiratory virus season,” the statement continued. “We encourage all Americans to speak to their vaccine health care provider.”

ACIP made the headlines in early June when RFK JR. rotation In the 17th of its members and replaced them by Eight New opening. (The secretary of HHS dear the members of the committee, but conventionally, they serve four -year fixed mandates.) These new dear include Retsef Levi, which said– Faced with a scientific consensus – that mRNA vaccines are fatal, and Robert Malone, who shares articles on assumption links BETWEEN Cancer and the Covid Vaccines, which no credible research has revealed to exist. In Levi or Malone responded to a request for comments.

Michael A. Ross, another member of the recently rejected committee, resigned from the AICI during an examination of his financial participation, the New York Times report June 24 Publish Earlier in June, RFK Jr. had described Ross as a member of the faculty of George Washington and Virginia Commonwealth University – but spokesperson for university said NBC News4 that Ross had not taught for years either. Ross did not respond to a request for comments.

The committee again made the headlines on June 25 when, during its first meeting From the year, he established it, he trained a working group to examine the recommended vaccination calendar for children and adolescents.

“The number of vaccines that our children and thecents have received today exceed what children in most other developed countries have received, and what most of us in this room have received when we [were] Children, “President Aipic Martin Kulldorff Said During the meeting.

He noted that the group would examine “the cumulative effect” of the timetables of the recommended vaccines, including the interests of Betardoen, the total number of given vaccines, their calendar and the exposure of containers to the ingredients of the vaccine.

But the process of adding vaccines to the calendar is rigorous Almedady. The previous vaccine can receive an FDA license, its manufacturer must test that it does not affect the security or immune response of other vaccines administered at the same time on the calendar, explains Paul Offit, director of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Vaccine Education Center.

In addition, “the idea that these vaccines somehow strike your immune system or overwhelming your immune system is boyful,” said Offer. Today, children are exposed to less viral or bacterial protein during the first years of the vaccine calendar than those of previous generations. When the parents of the offer received the vaccines from the smallpox, they were exposed to 200 proteins in one stroke. On the other hand, the measles vaccine contains only 10.

During the meeting, Kulldorff repeated do In 2024 that he was Fiard de Harvard because he refused to obtain the cocovid vaccine; He and Malone were also each of the expert witnesses remunerated in two separate proceedings against Merck on the security of the company HPV vaccine and his mumpRespectively. Kulldorff did not respond to a request for a comment.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) did not send representatives to the ACIP meeting last week, as is generally the case. According to the president of the Academy, Susan Kressly, it is because the AAP thinks that the recompeance process of the vaccines has lost credibility when its initial subscription was obtained by Kennedy.

“We will not lend our name or expertise to a system that is politicized to the detriment of children’s health,” said Kressly video Posted online before the start of the meeting. The AAP did not respond to a request for comments on the video.

The most recent children’s immunization calendar that the AAP approves, from November 2024, is published on the AAP website. In a more recent, published on the CDC siteHas Almedy changed recommendations. He no longer lists as vaccines coded “routine” for children under the age of 18 who are not immunocompromised but rather listed them under the vaccines recommended for “shared clinical decision -making”, informed by “personal preference and circumstances”. The change Should not Allow insurance coverage.