Kennedy’s Vaccine Advisers Sow Doubts as Scientists Protest US Pivot on Shots - KFF Health News

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. handpicked to replace experts he’d fired earlier.

Panel urges doctors to stop administering influenza vaccine that contains mercury-based preservative called thimerosal.

Panel also urged doctors not to administer influenza vaccine with thinerosal, which will have little effect.

Anti-thimerosal activists dressed in costumes for vaccine-preventable diseases to protest new ACIP meeting.

Committee was to vote on reducing vaccinations against HPV , which causes cervical cancer, from two doses to one.

HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon dismissed it as “nothing more than a dog and pony show with a lack of serious credibility, evidenced by their Halloween costumes”.

Seqirus will have no trouble replacing its remaining multi-dose vials with single syringes in time for the flu season , spokesperson Melanie Kerin said. We’d like to speak with current and former personnel from the Department of Health and Human Services or its component agencies who believe the public should understand the impact of what’s happening within the federal health bureaucracy. Please message KFF Health News on Signal at ( 415 ) 519 -8778 or get in touch here..