RFK, COVID and vaccine
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Meissner was previously listed in April as a consultant to the RSV vaccines work group for the CDC committee, before Kennedy fired its advisers.
Robert F. Kennedy’s purge of a federal advisory committee tasked with developing recommendations on how to use vaccines includes members from two Connecticut universities.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is not a scientist or doctor, says you don’t need the COVID vaccine, but experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still put you in a high-risk group of people who ought to receive boosters.
Kennedy also gleefully said he was revoking recommendations for vaccinating healthy children. But the CDC's edited immunization schedule did not remove the recommendation outright; rather, it simply added a stipulation that a child's doctor and parents agree on the vaccination, described as "shared clinical decision-making."
Kennedy Jr. testifying during his Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions confirmation hearing on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifying during his Senate Committee on Health,