
RFK Jr. picked eight new members for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, after ousting 17 independent vaccine experts.
Kennedy said the picks will demand “definitive safety and efficacy data” for vaccine recommendations. His choices include at least three critics of mRNA coronavirus vaccines.
His picks for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices include a well-known pediatric infectious-diseases expert and at least three people who have criticized the use of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. Some of the more notable selections include Martin Kulldorff, the co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for herd immunity through mass covid infection in 2020, and Vicky Pebsworth, who is listed on the board of the nation’s oldest anti-vaccine group.
Caption from article by Lena H. Sun and Lauren Weber.