By Zachary Stieber, Senior Reporter (Epoch Times)
New members of the panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines will be announced “over the coming days,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on June 10.
Kennedy on Monday
removed all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, which provides recommendations regarding vaccines to the CDC.
Kennedy
wrote on the social media platform X, that none of the new members will be “ideological anti-vaxxers.” He said the new members “will be highly credentialed physicians and scientists who will make extremely consequential public health determinations by applying evidence-based decision-making with objectivity and common sense.”
The Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC’s parent agency,
said on Monday that the fired members would be replaced “with new members currently under consideration.” The agency had declined to provide more details.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, raised concerns after Kennedy removed the members of the advisory panel. He
wrote on X that he feared the new members would be “people who know nothing about vaccines except suspicion.” He added: “I’ve just spoken with Secretary Kennedy, and I’ll continue to talk with him to ensure this is not the case.”
Cassidy earlier this year was considering not voting for Kennedy’s confirmation. In a floor speech ahead of the vote, Cassidy
said that he had secured various commitments from Kennedy. “If confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes,” the senator, who is also a doctor, said at the time.
Kennedy said he removed the members to help reestablish public confidence in vaccine science. He noted that the panel has many recommended childhood vaccines without requiring placebo-controlled trials, which he said “means that no one can scientifically ascertain whether these products are averting more problems than they are causing.”
Fourteen of the ousted advisory committee members hold medical degrees, including Dr. Helen Talbot, professor of medicine and health policy at Vanderbilt University. The three others hold at least one other degree, such as a PhD.
Members of the panel “shall be selected from authorities who are knowledgeable in the fields of immunization practices and public health, have expertise in the use of vaccines and other immunobiologic agents in clinical practice or preventive medicine, have expertise with clinical or laboratory vaccine research, or have expertise in assessment of vaccine efficacy and safety,” according to the panel’s
charter.
At least one member must be “knowledgeable about consumer perspectives and/or social and community aspects of immunization programs.”
The committee is scheduled to meet for three days starting on June 25. Kennedy told reporters in Washington at an unrelated briefing that the new members would be in place before then.
It is the first of what I hope is a number of Senate hearings on the subject. (Scroll forward about 15 minutes for the recording to begin playing): First US Senate hearing on Covid “vaccine” injuries chaired by Senator Johnson (May 21, 2025)
”The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated with the COVID-19 Vaccines – Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs”
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/the-corruption-of-science-and-federal-health-agencies-how-health-officials-downplayed-and-hid-myocarditis-and-other-adverse-events-associated-with-the-covid-19-vaccines/
(I’m not sure if this touches at all on the subject of the huge numbers of fetal deaths caused by the mandated Covid inoculations).
Apologies: my comment above was partially cut off.
It is the first of what I hope is a number of Senate hearings on the subject. (Scroll forward about 15 minutes for the recording to begin playing):
First US Senate hearing on Covid “vaccine” injuries chaired by Senator Johnson (May 21, 2025)
”The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated with the COVID-19 Vaccines – Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs”
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/the-corruption-of-science-and-federal-health-agencies-how-health-officials-downplayed-and-hid-myocarditis-and-other-adverse-events-associated-with-the-covid-19-vaccines/
(I’m not sure if this touches at all on the subject of the massive numbers of fetal deaths caused by the mandated Covid inoculations).
Protect our children against Democrat medical monsters! Mandating vaccines is an abomination.