Kennedy's New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines [GIFT] [View all]
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Source: nytimes.com
Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providing vaccines to Americans.
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By Apoorva Mandavilli June 26, 2025Updated 3:22 p.m. ET
An advisory panel recently appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted on Thursday to walk back longstanding recommendations for flu vaccines containing an ingredient that the anti-vaccine movement has falsely linked to autism.
The vote signaled a powerful shift in the way federal officials approach vaccines, putting into action Mr. Kennedy’s deep skepticism about their safety and delivering the first blows to a scientific process that has for decades delivered effective vaccines to Americans.
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“As a physician and scientist who has devoted my entire career to vaccines and preventing and treating infections, this meeting has been devastating to watch,” said Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, an expert on vaccines who resigned from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month.
Dozens of studies have shown the vaccine ingredient, called thimerosal, to be harmless. It has not been a component of most childhood shots since 2001.
“The risk from influenza is so much greater than the nonexistent risk as far as we know from thimerosal,” said the lone dissenter, Dr. Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and widely considered to be the most qualified member of the new committee...................
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