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spanone

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Wed Jun 25, 2025, 09:09 PM Wednesday

Kennedy's new vaccine panel alarms pediatricians with inquiries into long-settled questions

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ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers alarmed pediatricians Wednesday by announcing inquiries into some long-settled questions about children’s shots.

Opening the first meeting of Kennedy’s handpicked seven-member panel, committee chairman Martin Kulldorff said he was appointing a work group to evaluate the “cumulative effect” of the children’s vaccine schedule — the list of immunizations given at different times throughout childhood.

Also to be evaluated, he said, is how two other shots are administered — one that guards against liver-destroying hepatitis B and another that combines chickenpox protection with MMR, the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

It was an early sign of how the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is being reshaped by Kennedy, a leading antivaccine activist before becoming the nation’s top health official. He fired the entire 17-member panel this month and replaced it with a group that includes several anti-vaccine voices.

https://apnews.com/article/cdc-vaccine-advisers-covid19-rsv-a85baa8a9296fd857af5ce33ae3b6cfd

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He will kill millions of us, including many children Eliot Rosewater Wednesday #1

Eliot Rosewater

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1. He will kill millions of us, including many children
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 11:01 PM
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But at least we don’t have that candidate from 2016 who wouldn’t guarantee Medicare for all so she had to be trashed and bashed so much that the piece of shit was elected, god dammit

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