Secretary of health Robert F Kennedy Jr And his department has made a series of misleading declarations that have alarmed experts and defenders of vaccines in recent days – including that the measles vaccine, mumps and rubella (MMR) includes “aborted fetus debris».
Officials from the Ministry of Health have published statements saying that they could change vaccination tests and build new “surveillance systems” on Wednesday, which both have annoyed experts who consider new placebo tests as potentially contrary to ethics.
“This is its goal of reducing confidence in vaccines even more and making it sufficiently expensive for manufacturers to abandon it,” said Dr. Paul Offer, expert in infectious disease and immunology and director of the Vaccines Education Center at the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, on statements and Kennedy. “It’s a fragile market.”
During the same week, Kennedy urged parents to “do their own research” in a Talkshow interview – The sentence has become a shortcut of pop culture for shallow internet research that launches people in the arms of the disinformation ecosystem.
“All new vaccines will undergo security tests in placebo -controlled tests before license granting – a radical difference in past practices,” HHS spokesperson for the Washington Post said in response to questions on the general vaccine policy and the measles vaccine. The department did not specify what it meant by “new vaccine”.
The ministry spokesman has also described new surveillance systems for vaccines, “which will precisely measure vaccination risks as well as advantages – because real science requires both transparency and responsibility”, but has not developed the design of these systems.
Before being confirmed as Secretary of Health, Kennedy was undoubtedly the largest anti-vaccine defender in the country and led a non-profit organization known for prolific disinformation. He too won money By referring customers to law firms who pursue vaccines.
Among the claims distributed by Kennedy, drugs cause “autoimmune injuries and allergic injuries and neurodevelopmental injuries which have long diagnostic horizons or long periods of incubation, so that you can study and you will not see injury for five years,” he said in an interview in 2021, according to reporting.
Kennedy also said this week that the Ror vaccine includes “aborted fetus debris”. The rubbing vaccine, like many vaccines, is produced using Sterile fetal cell lines old several decades derived from two elective endings in the 1960s.
Vaccines against new pathogens, such as COVID-19, are tested by placebo. However, experts consider that new placebo -controlled trials for longtime vaccines, for example measles, are contrary to ethics because he would effectively refuse a patient a known intervention while potentially exposing them to a dangerous disease.
“No institutional examination committee in no university center would accept that – so he asks what the advocate of injuries is invariably requested, which is impossible to do,” said Offer.
Although Kennedy has made false and deceptive statements on vaccines in general, the COVVI-19 vaccine seems to be particularly in the administration.
In response to Questions on the COVVI-19 strategy Since the Guardian, the administration has replied: “The Pandemic COVID-19 has been over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of dollars from taxpayers who respond to a non-existent pandemic that the Americans left years ago.”
Health managers would need all requests for research grant on messenger RNA technology, which feeds most of COVVI-19 vaccines, to be Facred at the Kennedy office. They also ended the research that has tested the safety and efficiency of the COVVI-19 vaccine in special groups, such as pregnant women, as part of a CLAWBACK $ 11 billion in states grants.
The most controversial, the Food and Drug Administration delayed the expected approval of a new COVVI-19 vaccine in Novavax, would have been on the examination of a person appointed politics known to be skeptical about vaccines.
During the weekend, the FDA commissioner, Marty Makary, addressed the delay by describing the annual updates of the stumps of the vaccine as a “New” productCreating confusion as to whether vaccine manufacturers should carry out new safety and efficiency tests. These tests would not be normal on routine updates.
Monday, the company published a declaration That said, in part, the FDA had required a clinical trial in the context of post-approval surveillance, and that it would continue to work with the FDA.