Amid controversial discussions, sometimes citing smear theory, low-quality data, and desperate requests from doctors and patients relying on acoustic science, a key CDC committee on Friday chose to undercut its existing recommendations for COVID-19 photography while cutting other vaccine decisions to a later date.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice Unanimously voted to retreat to the present clear Recommended for all adults Get vaccinated againT Covid-19 supports a “common clinical decision-making” process in which patients are encouraged to first talk to a doctor, nurse or pharmacist.
The group is very close to recommending a Covid-19 vaccine only by prescription, with Chairman Martin Kulldorff’s “No” vote breaking 6-to-6 votes. The organization has also postponed the vote on hepatitis B vaccination indefinitely, with some members saying the proposal to postpone the first dose is not far enough.
The chaotic atmosphere of the two-day meeting confuses many intimate observers because of what decisions the group actually made.
“What happens when people who don’t have a basic understanding of how the American public delivers these key policy decisions about the American public,” said Friday at a Zoom news conference on Friday. “What we get from ACIP is chaos.”
On Thursday, the committee voted to show that children under four received measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines and chickenpox or chickenpox, or vaccines given at the same time, rather than a single dose.
This is a relatively small change. Many pediatricians have done this to reduce the risk of high fever seizures.
But the tone of the meeting and the decision the committee seemed ready to make was very concerned by many doctors and public health officials.
“The damage is legitimizing these frameworks that legitimize these lab-based research and conspiracy theorists’ findings on the population-level security data have equal status,” said Dr. Jake Scott, an infectious disease expert at Stanford University School of Medicine. “Now, every anti-vax group knows that they can pack their own claims and appearance science slides and cite some weird paper in the context, and then potentially grant their concerns to official medical papers.”
COVID-19 discussions are RETSEF LEVIa professor of operations management at MIT Sloan and a lone member of the committee, does not have a biomedical or clinical degree.
He began the discussion and made it clear that the committee would consider anecdotal evidence and unpublished reports in decision-making, as well as rigorously studied data.
“We need to leverage all relevant published and unpublished scientific, clinical and public health data, information and knowledge, including experience in the field. We will focus on personalized risk welfare analysis and we will stay very far away from narratives or “safe and effective” statements,” Already said mRNA vaccines are deadly and should be withdrawn from the market. “We don’t think these are appropriate or scientific language to talk about issues related to vaccination.”
Once, a microphone grabbed someone during a meeting where Levi caught “idiot” while he was talking. It is not clear who the speaker is.
The group voted unanimously to postpone any changes in the hepatitis B vaccination. The committee-appointed vaccine skeptics say the proposal to postpone the first dose by one month is not enough.
ACIP member Vicky Pebsworth is a nurse who serves as research director at the National Center for Vaccine Information Long-term criticism To promote inaccuracy of information, CDC criticized the CDC for masking the side effects of the hepatitis B vaccine, such as fever, lethargy and pickiness.
“These are not trivial reactions,” Pebusworth said. “I personally think we should make mistakes on the cautious side and adopt a more cautious vaccination policy.”
Hepatitis C has been almost eliminated since the introduction of the vaccine in 1991.
As many as 85% of babies born to infected mothers are infected, and the earlier the risk of long-term effects of the disease, the infection will be infected.
Infected infants in the first year of life There is a 90% chance of chronic hepatitis C and 25% will die from According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, complications such as liver cancer and cirrhosis are reported.
The CDC scientists told the committee Thursday that the side effects of vaccines are extremely rare and that diseases that do occur tend to be mild.
Several committee members said they did not believe it.
“There is a gap in our understanding and understanding of the effects of hepatitis B [vaccine]especially in very young babies, we know that this is safe and may be too early to conclude. ” Pebusworth said.
At one point, she asked whether the irritability and fussiness of some babies during shooting may be early symptoms of neurological problems caused by unstudied vaccines.
Commission member Dr. Joseph Hibbeln pushed back.
“We have to vote on data that has a hazard or a specific interest in concrete,” said psychiatrist Hibbeln, who previously served as department head at the National Institutes of Health. “We have gone beyond the data and are discussing speculation and possible clinical outcomes where we don’t have data.”
The American Academy of Pediatrics said in a press conference on Thursday that it will continue to recommend babies to get their first batch of hepatitis B at birth.
The U.S. health insurance plans, including major U.S. insurance companies such as Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and several Blue Cross and Blue Shield groups, announced this week that its members will continue to cover vaccines recommended from September 1 to the end of September 1 to September 1 as of September 1.
For much of its 61-year history, ACIP conferences have been dry technical matters, in which experienced physicians, public health officials and research scientists have a deep understanding of the weeds of vaccine and disease data.
The role of the Commission in U.S. vaccine insurance and availability is crucial. Insurance companies only need to cover CDC-approved vaccines, although they can choose to cover other vaccines as well. The committee’s recommendations usually set a vaccine schedule, followed by schools and doctors. It also identifies vaccines in disease prevention and control Children’s Vaccine Programthis is to immunize nearly half of the children.
Previously, the committee worked with expert working groups such as the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Society of Infectious Diseases to develop its recommendations and guidelines throughout the year. Members also offer interlaced terms so that new people always join colleagues with previous experience and are often reviewed for more than a year.
But Kennedy fired the entire 17-member committee in June and then informed the medical community No more invitations Review scientific evidence and provide advice to the committee before the meeting.
In addition to Dr. Cody Meissner, he was at George W.
Lack of experience shows.
The group began the day, and they re-do the vote, and they hurried to announce the afternoon before whether public funds would continue to cover the shootings of the MMRV merger, as several members admitted that they were not fully aware of the text of the measures they voted for. In the new vote, they are sure not.
In August, Kennedy fired Susan Monarez, a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who was appointed by President Trump. On Wednesday, Monares Tell the Senate Committee Kennedy fired her in part because she refused to sign up for changes to his planned vaccine schedule this month without seeing scientific evidence.
ACIP’s recommendations are only formal after approval by the CDC directors. With Monarez out, that responsibility is now Jim O’Neill, deputy secretary of Health and Human Services, who serves as acting director of the CDC.
“The committee focuses on doing improper research to support its preconceived anti-bacterial concepts rather than trying to really weigh risks and interests in order to make the best decisions for American children,” said Dr. Adam Ratner of New York City. Pediatric infectious disease experts. “This ACIP conference shows that our public health system is deteriorating and real families and children will suffer.”
