Someone please sedate me until this pathetic ACIP meeting is over

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Saying they disgraced themselves is such an understatement. They effectively trashed whatever reputation they have among serious scientific colleagues. Beyond the absurdity of what they were saying, they explicitly lied about what multiple studies found.

ACIP just reversed the VFC vote from MMRV yesterday, denying coverage to uninsured or underinsured children whose parents want to use MMRV. Yes, yesterday’s result was strange. But this is not better. It’s also another indication that this committee doesn’t know what it’s doing.

Blackburn quoting the vaccine packet. Standard anti-vaccination talking points. Anecdotes about her mother. COVID vaccine led to lung cancer in her town? This is just wild fishing from someone who knows nothing about epidemiology. Anecdotes are NOT data. #acip

Wow the ACIP vote to require a prescription for COVID vaccine just barely failed by a tie breaker. Half of this committee has no idea the disparities that would create and the burden on physicians.

ACIP member Retseff Levi, a professor of operations management at MIT, is finally reading the text of the votes. This is the first time the public has seen what the committee is going to vote on.

At ACIP meeting they’re discussing covid and need for the vaccine for infants. RESP-NET Director emphasizes that 0-6mos covid hospitalization rates are similar to 65+.

More than three hours into today's ACIP meeting. Lots of discussion around COVID-19 vaccines. But we still have absolutely no idea what (if anything) they'll be voting on related to COVID.

I hope there are exploding balloons with the Covid vaccine recs falling out like a gender reveal #ACIP so exciting!

"Dr. Jason Goldman, president of the American College of Physicians and a non-voting ACIP liaison member," voiced his concerns, "the second vote “actually revealed the truth that you do not have the data or evidence to challenge the current standing and that there is...no associated harm.”

Jason Goldman is absolutely an MVP liaison member.

Robert Malone tried to poke a hole in CDC's COVID epi presentation by claiming that tests are not sensitive- or specific-enough to accurately diagnose, eg all the data is flawed. A CDC rep noted tests have 90% in both and are FDA-approved. #ACIP #IDSky #Medsky

Dr Malone attempting a “gotcha” question to invalidate entire hospitalization data set that backfires spectacularly when FDA lab SME reports the FDA-approves COVID tests being used have sensitivity/specificity >90% #ACIP

Retsef Levi continues to demonstrate his complete lack of knowledge about epidemiology and public health. He says ACIP will now focus on “Personalized risk-benefit analyses vs. 'safe & effective”. Personalized risk-benefit is the very important role of healthcare providers, not ACIP.

In June, an ACIP member said that 250 pediatric flu deaths were no big deal. Maybe today we will find out that a handful of hepatitis B related cancers, transplants, and deaths are also not a big deal to them either. Welcome to the new public health. We are aligned to a manifesto, not science.

The anticipated votes for COVID vaccine are still not posted. #ACIP “rAdicaL tRanSpArency”

Dr Kulldorf won’t answer Dr Goldman’s (ACP) request to share what process is going to be used to make recommendations since not using the EtR framework and grading process anymore. Absolutely ridiculous. We deserve answers. #ACIP

As of 8am CDC's ACIP website does not have the proposed vote language for today's COVID vaccine recommendation posted. How is the public able to engage and provide informed comments? I testified before Senator Cassidy and @sanders.senate.gov on Wednesday- this is not radical transparency.

EtR (evidence to Recommendations) is gone. We're now forming vaccine policy based on vibes and public opinion. Mallone admits they are making a decision not based on a safety signal...but on trust? There is no reason to defer the Hep B birth dose except to advance the anti-vaccine agenda.

Cause, effect and consequences This is where RFK, Jr. is taking us: The 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa followed a drop in vax rates that was encouraged by RFK, Jr. More than one in 150 babies age 6 to 11 months died from the measles during the outbreak. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

They were totally confused about what they were voting for.

Special thanks to the @CDC scientists for great presentations, excellent scientific reviews, and enormous patience in the face of an enormously challenging and upsetting day at what used to be the ACIP

None of the ACIP understand that they just voted to maintain VFC coverage for the MMRV vaccine for kids under 4 (50% of US kids) through one vote—a good thing!—while removing the overall recommendation for any kid to get it (and thus ending ACA coverage requirement for kids with private insurance).

Sloppy, unprepared, and incompetent. They don’t even understand VFC or CHIP or know what their votes mean. Complete amateur hour. God bless the CDC scientists who have to endure this #ACIP

These people have no idea what they’re doing #ACIP

After reviewing the ACIP presentations that were made available online and listening to public comments, ACIP has no scientific grounds whatsoever to make the changes to the vaccine schedule that they are proposing. The truth of RFK Jr.’s ACIP will be fully revealed in the next few minutes.

The non-expert ACIP members decide there is no problem in testing mothers for hepatitis B and that any lack of information can be fixed in the hospital. These people don't seem to have much knowledge of how birth or hospitals work in the U.S. or Hep B. Really, this is painful.

This literally isn't even within ACIP's purview

Another first in my ~20 years of watching ACIP meetings: committee members asking questions to CDC subject-matter experts as if they were attorneys cross-examining witnesses. Asking questions to which they have their own answers ready, no matter how CDC responds.

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It’s only July and measles cases in the U.S. are already higher than in any year since 1992. When public health programs are cut and vaccination rates decline, more children get sick and die. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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This was fire. Well done and thank you @drdadsays.bsky.social #ACIP

It is clear that RFK Jr.'s handpicked new appointees to #ACIP are a danger to families and children across America. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

I’m laughing at the #ACIP members with vague calls for “more studies” without mentioning anything specific, because the NIH has been gutted and we have the most anti-science/anti-research administration ever and the head of HHS is… checks notes… a lawyer. Good luck with that.

Lyn Redwood just did something that a legitimate scientist would not. She presented a wholly one-sided blast of alarmist slides about thimerosal, ignoring the wealth of data showing its safety as a preservative. She used language designed for an emotional reaction.

Same! Absolutely amazing comments! Bright lights in the darkness. So many pediatricians not taking the BS #ACIP

First public commenter from naturopathic pediatrician 🔥🔥🔥. Calls out #ACIP members’ conflicts of interest not disclosed—making 💰💰💰 in selling supplements claiming to “protect from flu, COVID” and earning millions in settlements in lawsuits. Well done and thank you.

An update from Dr. Sean O’Leary on this morning’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting:

No one on Kennedy's vaccine advisory committee is an expert in immunology and BOY does it show

Here are the recommendations proposed:

Having to make them in this backdrop where misstatements are countered calmly and expertly kinda deflates their stances. Kudos to the CDC professionals who remained calm despite questions that showed, while some members are scientists, that doesn’t mean you understand all science.

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