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RFK Jr.’s new ACIP to debate flu photographs, MMRV vaccine


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WASHINGTON — Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked panel of vaccines advisers will weigh in on two long-approved photographs at its first assembly subsequent week, an agenda posted on Wednesday reveals.

Kennedy not too long ago gutted the panel and appointed eight new members, a few of whom have criticized accepted vaccines or questioned their security. The panel will vote subsequent week on suggestions associated to “thimerosal containing” flu vaccines, and in addition rethink suggestions associated to using the mix measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine for youngsters below 5. 

The up to date agenda for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices comes every week after Kennedy introduced he had dismissed all 17 members of the impartial panel, which supplies suggestions to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention on which vaccines individuals ought to get. 

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