Thunderclap in American public health. The Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., known for his controversial positions on vaccines, returned to all members of the Scientific Committee on Monday that advises the authorities that vaccination policy in the United States. This group has guided disease control and prevention centers (CDC) for more than sixty years.
Kennedy accuses the committee, composed of experts in epidemiology and pediatrics, “conflicts of interest” and lack of transparency. It justifies this great home as necessary to break with the inheritance of the Biden administration, which had appointed part of the members. This purge, announced on a platform on the Wall Street Journal, occurs a few weeks from a key meeting on flu, covid, papillomavirus or meningitis.
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