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Key highlights to this meeting:
www.nytimes.com
The panelists brought on from RFK are dangerously unqualified, as they do not understand what they are even voting for. It appears RFK Jr couldn't find highly qualified anti-vaxxers.
Clown show.
The second half of this circus is tomorrow.
In a sign of how hastily the committee was put together, the advisers — about half of whom were only appointed to the panel by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this week — needed explanations of the usual protocol for these meetings, the design of scientific studies and critical flaws in the data they suggested including.
The panelists also seemed unsure about the purpose of the Vaccines for Children program, which provides free shots to roughly half of all American children. Approving which vaccines the program should cover is a key function of the committee.
In a bizarre twist, the members also voted 8 to 1 to have the Vaccines for Children program continue to cover the M.M.R.V. vaccine for children under 4. It was unclear whether the members all understood what they were voting for. Three members abstained altogether, one of them explicitly citing his confusion as the reason.

RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Committee to Vote on Hepatitis B and Covid Shots
The members voted against the combination shot for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. Guidelines on vaccines given separately to prevent those infections remain unchanged.
The panelists brought on from RFK are dangerously unqualified, as they do not understand what they are even voting for. It appears RFK Jr couldn't find highly qualified anti-vaxxers.
Clown show.
The second half of this circus is tomorrow.