RFK Jr, HHs & Public Health News | Measles outbreak, etc.

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Malone and Kulldorff were 2 of the leading anti-vax cranks during Covid. They were constantly cited by right-wingers and spread tons of misinformation.

Not sure about the others.

Meissner is solid, but he may be the only one after a little more looking into it. Pebsworth is apparently part of an organization that has made some misleading anti-vax claims. Levi doesn’t have a medical background and is just a COVID/vaccine contrarian.

Unsure why Pagano was chosen, he seems like a regular doctor and doesn’t really have a web presence. Appears Michael Ross has had some experience in the corporate world as well as practicing, again not much of a web footprint to reveal his stance on vaccines.

 

[nrsair]

I missed this yesterday too: priority for a new FDA by the commissioner and head of CBER.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2835314

 

[nycfan]

WSJ Editorial Board:

Meet RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Advisers​

With one exception, his committee members seem to know little about vaccines.​

—> https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-...0?st=sfWcBU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“… Two of his new members have served as “expert” witnesses paid by plaintiff attorneys in lawsuits against vaccine makers. Conflicts, anyone? Biostatistician Martin Kulldorff backed claims against Merck over its HPV vaccine. Mr. Kennedy held a financial stake in one of the cases, which after he became secretary he bestowed to his son, who works at the law firm suing Merck, Wisner Baum.

Another appointee is biochemist Robert Malone, a loud critic of the Covid mRNA vaccines. He also served as a paid expert in litigation against Merck’s mumps vaccine, which was rejected by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Dr. Malone has downplayed the Texas measles outbreak and said two deaths of unvaccinated children owed to medical errors.

ACIP members have typically been trained doctors, but Mr. Kennedy is breaking from this tradition.

One appointee, Retsef Levi, is an MIT business school professor of operations management. What does he know about vaccines? Not much as far as we can tell, but he has been a strident critic of Covid vaccines.

… Mr. Kennedy has also tapped Vicky Pebsworth, a registered nurse and board member of the nonprofit National Vaccine Information Center. The outfit downplays the benefits of vaccines and hypes potential side effects. She says her son experienced “serious, long-term health problems following receipt of seven vaccines administered during his 15-month well-baby visit.”

The secretary appears to have picked some vaccine advisers out of a Make America Healthy Again hat. Take Joseph Hibbeln, a nutritional neuroscientist whose research focus is omega-3 fatty acids.

Another is emergency medicine physician James Pagano, who has written two novels and denounced a study finding that ivermectin was an ineffective Covid treatment.

Mr. Kennedy’s only pick with any substantive vaccine expertise appears to be pediatrician Cody Meissner, who previously served on government vaccine advisory panels and has espoused the benefits of vaccines, including in a 2022 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine. Consider him the committee’s contrarian…”

 

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COVID Critics Dominate New US Vaccine Advisory Committee - Health Policy Watch

Three days after removing all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine advisory group, United States Health Secretary

healthpolicy-watch.news

“… [Dr. Robert] Malone has promoted several false and alarmist claims about COVID-19 vaccines, said they did not work and promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as SARS-CO-V2 treatments despite numerous studies showing they did not work.

Part of Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, Malone was banned from Twitter during the pandemic for violating the platform’s misinformation policies and The New York Times has described him as a “COVID vaccine misinformation star”.

Recently, Malone controversially claimed that an eight-year-old child, Daisy Hildebrand, who died of measles in Texas had died of sepsis not measles, and blamed a medical institution for mismanaging her illness. Malone made these claims on social media before the child’s death had been made public. …”

 

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COVID Critics Dominate New US Vaccine Advisory Committee - Health Policy Watch

Three days after removing all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine advisory group, United States Health Secretary

healthpolicy-watch.news

“… [Dr. Robert] Malone has promoted several false and alarmist claims about COVID-19 vaccines, said they did not work and promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as SARS-CO-V2 treatments despite numerous studies showing they did not work.

Part of Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, Malone was banned from Twitter during the pandemic for violating the platform’s misinformation policies and The New York Times has described him as a “COVID vaccine misinformation star”.

Recently, Malone controversially claimed that an eight-year-old child, Daisy Hildebrand, who died of measles in Texas had died of sepsis not measles, and blamed a medical institution for mismanaging her illness. Malone made these claims on social media before the child’s death had been made public. …”

“… Pebsworth, Pacific regional director for the National Association of Catholic Nurses, is a director and board member at the National Vaccine Information Center. The centre is known for questioning the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and encouraging people to seek alternatives to vaccines.

Some 40% of the centre’s funding is from Dr Joseph Mercola, who sells alternative health products and was named the biggest source of COVID-19 misinformation on Facebook and Twitter by the Center Countering Digital Hate….”

 

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“… Pebsworth, Pacific regional director for the National Association of Catholic Nurses, is a director and board member at the National Vaccine Information Center. The centre is known for questioning the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and encouraging people to seek alternatives to vaccines.

Some 40% of the centre’s funding is from Dr Joseph Mercola, who sells alternative health products and was named the biggest source of COVID-19 misinformation on Facebook and Twitter by the Center Countering Digital Hate….”

“… A biostatistician and epidemiologist, Kulldorff was co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration with Dr Jay Battacharya, new director of the National Institutes of Health, which favoured herd immunity to address COVID-19 for all but the most vulnerable.

Meissner, Professor of Paediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, was part the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine advisory panel that recommended the use of COVID vaccines. However, he has spoken out against children wearing masks and is in favour of children and pregnant children being excluded from the COVID-19 vaccine schedule.

Levi, Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has questioned the safety of COVID-19 vaccines…”

 

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[Zoo_View]

Unfortunately, if you’re explaining, you’re losing.

The uneducated, ignorant masses want straight-forward statements….,if they’re wrong, no big deal.

 

[nrsair]

RFK Jr.’s New Panel Tackles Vaccine Ingredients, Kids’ Shots (1)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan for America’s vaccines is coming into focus, with his revamped immunization advisory panel set to discuss the use of measles shots in kids next week and vote on an ingredient that’s been wrongly linked to autism.

news.bloomberglaw.com

Newly constituted ACIP panel will meet next week and discuss the use of thimerosal and aluminum adjuvants in vaccines- two mainstay components that have been proven safe but remain targets of the anti-vax crowd.

 

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In some act of Bio-Karma Kristi Noem had an "allergic reaction" after visiting the BSL4 lab where the SARS1 vaccine was developed and tested. Without the tests and the RNA sequence for SARS1 as an analog for SARS2, the COVID vaccine would have been far more difficult - maybe years more to develop. She needed a better "tour guide" next time.

Kristi Noem visited biohazard lab day before allergic reaction

The Homeland security secretary was at the Maryland facility with Senator Rand Paul and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

www.newsweek.com

 

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RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?

 

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[mpaer]

In some act of Bio-Karma Kristi Noem had an "allergic reaction" after visiting the BSL4 lab where the SARS1 vaccine was developed and tested. Without the tests and the RNA sequence for SARS1 as an analog for SARS2, the COVID vaccine would have been far more difficult - maybe years more to develop. She needed a better "tour guide" next time.

Kristi Noem visited biohazard lab day before allergic reaction

The Homeland security secretary was at the Maryland facility with Senator Rand Paul and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

www.newsweek.com

I hope she is not autistic now

 

[Zoo_View]

He is either a complete moron or he’s such a narcissist he pays no attention to others talking or both.

 

[nrsair]

RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years

During a House committee meeting Tuesday, Kennedy announced a large-scale ad campaign from the federal government to hype wearable tech.

gizmodo.com

Wearing an Apple Watch is apparently a critical component of making America healthy again… and making administration-adjacent grifters very rich, of course.