The new vaccine consultants of RFK Jr. will vote with Mercury via flu vaccinations
The secretary for health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Minister of Education Linda McMahon will take part in an event for the replacement of Make America Healthy Commission in the East Room of the White House in Washington on May 22, 2025.
Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters
A decisive government body of vaccine advisors, which was appointed by the secretary of the health and human service, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The advisory committee for immunization practices or ACIP will hear a presentation on the preservative with the name Thimmerosal at a planned meeting on June 26th. The committee will also vote on “Thimerosal -containing vaccine” heirs, according to a agenda for the two -day session published on Wednesday.
It is the first meeting of the committee with Kennedy's newly appointed members, of whom many well -known vaccine critics are. Last week he appointed the eight consultants after firing the previous 17 members of the committee, which advises the centers for the control and prevention of diseases in terms of vaccine policy.
It is unclear what is being discussed in the presentation or what exactly the committee will coordinate.
For decades, thimerosal has often been used as a preservative to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria in several drugs and vaccines with several doses. However, the use in approved vaccines has dropped sharply, since the manufacturers have shifted to dose packaging for their recordings, for which no preservatives are required.
Some multi-dose forms of flu vaccines for adults still contain thimerosal, including Sanofi'S Fluzone and two shots from the Biotech Company CSL SEQIRUS. According to the Food and Drug Administration, all vaccines that are routinely recommended for children 6 years and disciples in the USA are available in formulations that do not contain thimerosal.
The FDA and other health authorities have emphasized that, despite unfounded concerns, many well -guided scientific studies have not found a connection between thimerosal and autism.
“The scientific knowledge gathered in the past over 20 years show no evidence of damage, including serious neurological developmental disorders, from the use of thimerosal in vaccines,” said the FDA on its website.
The new ACIP members will play an important role in the design of the immunization directive in the USA, since the panel checks vaccine data and provides recommendations that determine who is entitled to record recordings and whether insurers should cover them, among other things. The committee should also check the data and vote on other vaccines during the two -day session, including the recordings for Covid and RSV.
