What People Think About RFK Jr's Clean Sweep of ACIP

Why has Secretary RFK Jr fired all the members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP?

Secretary RFK Jr has long claimed that ACIP members have had conflicts of interest that interfere with their making unbiased decisions about vaccines.

What People Think About RFK Jr's Clean Sweep of ACIP

What we will likely see in the ‘experts’ that Secretary RFK Jr appoints to replace these ACIP committee members is that he is only seeking folks who are not biased against his anti-vaccine agenda.

“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. The entire world once looked to American health regulators for guidance, inspiration, scientific impartiality, and unimpeachable integrity. Public trust has eroded. Only through radical transparency and gold standard science, will we earn it back.”

HHS Takes Bold Step to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines by Reconstituting ACIP

He believes that current members were a rubber stamp for the vaccine industry, and he instead seeks members that are a rubber stamp for his anti-vaccine agenda.

An anti-vaccine agenda that will make it harder to research and approve new vaccines and will remove current vaccines from the immunization schedule.

An anti-vaccine agenda that will inevitably lead to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, and more and more people unnecessarily getting sick and dying.

An anti-vaccine agenda that we all saw coming…

An anti-vaccine agenda that must be stopped before it is too late!

• Congresswoman Schrier Demands Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Immediately Reinstate All Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in New Letter

• RFK Jr. Is as Bad as We All Imagined

• Statement from Vaccinate Your Family on the Removal of ACIP Members and the Threat to Vaccine Coverage

• Voices for Vaccines’ Statement on the Termination of ACIP Memberships

• AAP Statement on Changes to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

• AMA statement on Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

• AAFP Responds to Removal of Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Members

• American College of Physicians Highly Concerned About Dismissal of Vaccine Experts from ACIP

• APHA Statement - Trump administration attempts coup of the Advisory Committees on Immunization Practices

• National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Statement on the Importance of Federal Advisory Committees in Protecting Public Health

• Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease Statement on the Removal of All ACIP Members

• National Medical Association Statement on Removal of Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Panel

• ASMP Statement - Help Us Protect Our Children - Take Action Before June 20

• AAI Urges RFK Jr. to Ensure New ACIP Appointments are Grounded in Scientific Expertise and Public Health Experience

• Statement from AAPA on Removal of CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Members

• National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Official Statement Regarding Changes to ACIP

• National Association of School Nurses Statement on Vaccine Advisory Panel Dismissals

• National Nursing Organizations Express Concern Over Dismissal of ACIP Representatives

• Society for Healthcare Epidemiology Affirms Trust in ACIP and Supports Science-Based Vaccine Policy

• California Medical Association statement on the removal of CDC's vaccine advisory committee members

• California Immunization Coalition - Response to HHS Secretary Kennedy’s Removal of ACIP Members

• Statement from SAFE Communities Coalition on Dismissal of ACIP Members by HHS

• Doctors for America Condemns RFK Jr.’s Gutting of Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices

• Massachusetts Medical Society decries firings of vaccine experts

• Medical Society of the District of Columbia Statement on Removal of ACIP Panel Members

• Illinois Public Health Association Public Health Impact Statement: Firing of ACIP Independent Vaccine Experts

• Immunization Coalition of Delaware’s Response to ACIP Disbanding

• Immunize Colorado Responds to Mass ACIP Member Termination

• Removal of US Vaccine Advisory Committee is ‘Dangerous and Unprecedented’

• Trump administration attempts coup of the Advisory Committees on Immunization Practices

• National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs Statement on removal of Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices members

• Firing the CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel is Exactly the Wrong Way to Restore Trust in Vaccines

• Statement: Kennedy’s Removal of ACIP Members is Shocking and Unscrupulous

• Community Catalyst - HHS “Reconstitution” of Vaccine Advisory Panel Undermines Trust of Evidence-Based Public Health Efforts

• Families USA: Mass Firing of ACIP Members Is a Dangerous and Reckless Assault On Public Health and Science

• Goodbye, Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Committee!

• RFK Jr’s ‘clean sweep’ of CDC vaccine panel experts will erode public trust

• Kennedy’s firing of independent CDC advisers undermines vaccine confidence, experts say

• Letter from Congressional Democrats to Secretary Kennedy

An anti-vaccine agenda that has left the medical community outraged and worried about what’s coming next.

References

HHS Takes Bold Step to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines by Reconstituting ACIP https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-restore-public-trust-vaccines-acip.html