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Bloomberg
20 hours ago
- Health
- Bloomberg
RFK Jr. Removes All Members of CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel
The Department of Health and Human Services is dismissing all 17 members that make up one of the main committees advising the US government on vaccine safety and policy, an unprecedented move to reshape a key scientific panel. 'A clean sweep is needed to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science,' Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal. The group, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, reviews the latest data and makes recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which typically implements them. The group's recommendations are influential and determine whether insurers cover shots, among other things. (Source: Bloomberg)
Fox News
21-05-2025
- Health
- Fox News
US officials delayed warning public about heart inflammation risk from COVID shot: report
U.S. health officials knew about the risks of myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccines but downplayed the concern and delayed informing the public about the risks of taking the jab — that is according to a new Senate report released by Sen. Ron Johnson Wednesday. Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has been investigating the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines. Earlier this year, he subpoenaed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for records relating to COVID-19 vaccine safety data and communications about the pandemic. The interim report, spanning 55 pages, obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital, revealed that Biden administration officials "withheld crucial health information from the Subcommittee and the public." Since 2021, Johnson has sent more than 70 oversight letters, which he says were "either completely ignored or inadequately addressed." The report highlights the records Johnson has obtained pursuant to the subpoena from the new, Trump administration-led health agency. Specifically, the report focuses on HHS' awareness of and response to cases of myocarditis—a type of heart inflammation—following COVID-19 vaccination. Johnson's report says the 2,473 pages of records he obtained "contain evidence of the Biden administration's efforts to downplay and delay warning the public about the risks of myocarditis associated with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines." The report points to records from May 2021, in which health officials at HHS discussed whether to issue a formal warning about myocarditis. According to the report, the formal warning about myocarditis was initially going to be distributed nationwide as a Health Alert Network message, which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is CDC's "primary method of sharing cleared information about urgent public health incidents with public information officers; federal, state, territorial, tribal, and local public health practitioners; clinicians; and public health laboratories." However, Johnson's report said that health officials at CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "ultimately decided against issuing a formal HAN and, instead, posted 'clinical considerations' on CDC's website about myocarditis." "Based on the subpoenaed records the Subcommittee has received to date, as well as public FOIA documents, this interim report will highlight records and present a timeline showing U.S. health officials knew about the risk of myocarditis; those officials downplayed the health concern; and U.S. health agencies delayed informing the public about the risk of the adverse event." The report also highlights the Israeli Ministry of Health notifying officials at the CDC in February 2021 of "large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people, following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine." The report also highlights documents showing CDC officials discussing "safety signals" for myocarditis with mRNA vaccines in April 2021 based on Defense Department and Israeli data, but "still not taking immediate steps to warn the public." Documents obtained by Johnson also show CDC officials communicating with Moderna and Pfizer representatives about the risks. Johnson also obtained "draft meeting notes from late May 2021 exchanged between U.S. public health officials which included the question: 'Is VAERS signaling for myopericarditis now?,' and the answer: 'For the age groups 16-17 years and 18-24 years, yes.'" "VAERS" is an acronym for the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. "Rather than provide the public and health care providers with immediate and transparent information regarding the risk of myocarditis following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, the Biden administration waited until late June 2021 to announce changes to the labels for the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines based on the 'suggested increased risks' of myocarditis and pericarditis," the report states. "Even though CDC and FDA officials were well aware of the risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination, the Biden administration opted to withhold issuing a formal warning to the public for months about the safety concerns, jeopardizing the health of young Americans." The report added that the Biden administration's decision "to downplay the COVID-19 vaccine health risks and delay warning the public about cardiac-related adverse events associated with the mRNA vaccines jeopardized the public's health." According to the report, as of April 25, 2025, VAERS reported 38,607 deaths and more than 1.6 million "adverse events worldwide associated with the administration of COVID-19 injections." Of the more than 38,000 deaths, the report said 25% occurred on Day 0, 1, or 2 following injection, compared to "2,663 deaths reported to VAERS associated with the flu vaccine over a period of 35 years." "No other reports of adverse events associated with any other drug or vaccine even come close to these statistics," the report states. "And yet, those who oversaw the development and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines continue to insist it is safe and effective, without providing the data to prove their claims." Johnson's report demands that the "full extent" of the Biden administration's "failure to immediately warn the public about all COVID-19 vaccine adverse events must be completely exposed." "The American people fund the federal health departments and agencies with their hardearned tax dollars," the report states. "The information developed by these departments and agencies belong to the American people, and should be made fully and transparently available." The report states that as "the roadblocks are removed and more documents that have been hidden and withheld for years become available, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will provide transparency and let the American public see what is their right to see."
Daily Mail
21-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Beloved '90s actor makes stunning public vaccine dare to Anthony Fauci
Actor-comedian Rob Schneider has launched a bizarre attack on Dr Anthony Fauci over vaccine safety. The Saturday Night Live star, 61, dared Dr Anthony Fauci to take all 72 approved childhood vaccines at once to prove they are safe. While speaking about chronic diseases on a talk show this week, Schneider said the childhood vaccine schedule has 'ramped up' since he was a kid, suggesting the shots are not necessary. He also falsely claimed there has 'never been a study of the entire vaccine schedule' recommended by the CDC for children from birth to age 18. The Saturday Night Live star, who has long shared anti-vaccine opinions, called out Dr Fauci and former CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky and asked them both to take all of the vaccines in the schedule. He said: 'I'd like to see you show up and get the whole [schedule] if you think it's so safe. 'Get the whole recommended childhood schedule and do it right there on stage, do all the 52 doses right now, and see how safe it is. 'They'll never do it.' While largely influencing the research and rollout of the Covid vaccines, Dr Fauci has never played a role in setting the childhood vaccine schedule. Schneider didn't single out any particular shot, though in the past he has voiced concerns over Covid vaccines and schools giving shots for human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection responsible for nine in 10 cases of cervical cancer. He also retweeted a post in 2019 that claimed 'fake news media' wouldn't tell the truth about Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced British researcher who falsely claimed the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism. Schneider said on an episode of The Sage Steele Show this week: 'They just ramped up the schedule from three shots when I was a kid. Now we have 52 different doses.' According to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, four vaccines were recommended during the 1960s, when Schneider was a child: DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis), MMR, polio and smallpox. There are multiple brands of approved vaccines in the US, adding up to 782 in total, though children are not given all of these. In total, children are recommended to get 15 shots for different diseases in the CDC's childhood vaccine schedule. Some of these are given in multiple doses, meaning a child receives up to about 35 to 40 doses by the time they turn 18. This doesn't include a yearly flu vaccine or Covid boosters. The only vaccines required to attend public schools in most states are DTaP, MMR, polio and varicella. The meningitis vaccine is typically required for college students. The rest, for diseases like influenza and varicella (chickenpox), are recommended by most states but not mandatory. Schneider also claimed there are no studies evaluating the safety of the full childhood vaccine schedule. However, several recent scientific reviews done this. In 2013, the Institute of Medicine looked at all shots on the schedule and found no links between adverse effects like anaphylaxis and immunizations. And in 2021, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRD), an arm of the CDC, reviewed 57,000 citations and 189 studies on the vaccine schedule and found no evidence of an increased risk of severe side effects. However, it also noted there 'remains insufficient evidence to make conclusions about some rare potential adverse events.' Several vaccines have also been shown to be effective with a low risk of complications. The MMR vaccine, for example, is 97 percent effective at preventing measles, mumps and rubella. The CDC estimates anaphylaxis has only occurred in one of every 1million doses, and seizures have been tied to just one in 4,000 doses.
