WASHINGTON — The Division of Well being and Human Providers is sitting on details about new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of curiosity, and seemingly backtracking on its vow to make key disclosure paperwork public.
Company officers beforehand stated they might launch ethics varieties for seven new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices earlier than the group’s first assembly in late June. That deadline got here and went.
The ignorance on new ACIP appointees stands in stark distinction to the detailed conflict-of-interest database for prior panelists that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. added to the company’s web site. The searchable web page, filed below the “Radical Transparency” part, was created just some weeks into his tenure.
