Following up on his firing of all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) last year and replacing them with new anti-vaccine members, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed two more anti-vaccine committee members this week.
KAYLA HANCOCK; contact via Jeremy Funk at [email protected]
Hancock is Director of Public Health Watch at Protect Our Care.
Protect Our Care said in a statement: “The former ACIP members fired by Kennedy published a letter last year expressing grave concern that RFK Jr.’s handpicked members would ‘roll back the achievements of U.S. immunization policy’ and ‘impact people’s access to lifesaving vaccines.’ They were unfortunately right.”
Hancock said: “The more RFK Jr. stacks his immunization advisory panel with anti-vaccine activists, the more its recommendations will undermine our public health to advance conspiracy theories and anti-science ideology.”
Hancock told the Institute for Public Accuracy: “While measles continues to spread among mostly unvaccinated children across the U.S., Secretary Kennedy’s only response is to promote even more anti-vaccine proponents to positions of power. In particular, Dr. Kimberly Biss routinely spouts off unfounded conspiracies about vaccine safety. Biss’s appointment further confirms this administration has no interest in protecting public health, only in convincing more Americans to needlessly put themselves at risk for preventable diseases.”