I don't think this is going to win the Trump administration any friends among the Left (not that anything ever would, but still):
The Department of Health and Human Services dismissed all the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Monday.
The committee's job was to decide and 'make recommendations' related to the necessity and use of vaccines, according to an HHS news release.
All the current members of the committee were brought in under the Biden administration, and 13 of them were put on the committee last year. HHS said it would take until 2028 for most of the members to be replaced if they served their full term.
RFK just rolling down to the ACIP offices like:
In its official announcement, the government said it was "prioritizing the restoration of public trust above any specific pro- or anti-vaccine agenda," according to Kennedy.
The public "must know that unbiased science — evaluated through a transparent process and insulated from conflicts of interest — guides the recommendations of our health agencies."
Vaccines, of course, are always a lightning-rod topic, never more so than in the post-COVID era. They are a sort of tripwire of modern U.S. public discourse: Even the pretense of wanting to discuss them can send people into a maniac frenzy.
Of course, we should be able to discuss it — and demand higher standards, even! This is a type of medicine, after all, that is given in extremely high amounts to nearly every child in the United States from birth onwards:
(And then adults, too!)
This amount of medical intervention should absolutely be subject to the highest levels of safety standards and scientific scrutiny — which is exactly what the government wants to do:
The HHS release noted that the next meeting for the committee will be June 25-27 in Atlanta, and the committee will have new people that are 'currently under consideration.'
'A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science,' Kennedy concluded. 'ACIP's new members will prioritize public health and evidence-based medicine. The Committee will no longer function as a rubber stamp for industry profit-taking agendas.'
I don't think you'll be surprised, meanwhile, to learn there were mostly two different types of responses to this news:
And...
Call me crazy, but I tend to like higher medical standards.
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