The panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started on June 25 its first meeting since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all members and named replacements.
Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist formerly with Harvard Medical School, and the new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said in opening remarks during the meeting in Atlanta that Kennedy “has given this committee a clear mandate to use evidence-based medicine for making vaccine recommendations, and that is what we will do.”
He said vaccines “are not all good or bad” and that “no questions should be off limits.” He added later that “to thoroughly scrutinize and ensure the safety and efficacy in vaccines is a pro-vaccine position.”…