Kennedy’s vaccination committee plans to vote on COVID-19, hepatitis B and chicken blows

New York – The new advisory committee for the vaccination of the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The exact questions to vote on Thursday and Friday in Atlanta are not clear. Managers of the Ministry of Health and Social Services did not immediately answer questions by asking details of a newly published program, although the ministry announced five additional appointments on the committee on Monday.

Some public health experts fear that votes – at least – raise new unjustified questions about vaccines in the minds of parents.

Perhaps even more consecutive would be a vote that prevents a government program from paying vaccines for low-income families.

“I tighten my security belt,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a vaccine expert from Vanderbilt University.

The panel, the advisory committee of vaccination practices, makes recommendations to the director of centers for disease control and prevention on the way in which the already approved vaccines should be used. CDC directors have almost always accepted these recommendations, which are largely processed by doctors and vaccination programs by guide.

Kennedy, a main antivaccine activist before becoming the highest health official in the country, dismissed the entire panel of 17 members earlier this year and replaced it with a group that includes several anti-vaccine voices.

Here is an overview of the three vaccines discussed:

Before Kennedy was secretary to health, the ACIP would generally vote in June to reaffirm recommendations for shots against respiratory viruses that sick with millions of Americans every fall and winter.

Last June, Kennedy’s AIPI voted to recommend shots against the influenza for the Americans, but was silent on the COVVI-19 shots.

Before this meeting, Kennedy announced that he suppressed COVVI-19 shots from the CDC recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women. This decision was strongly criticized by groups of doctors and public health organizations, and caused a trial by the American Academy of Pediatrics and other groups.

A few days after Kennedy’s announcement, CDC officials said families could still get the 2024-2025 SHOTS version for their children in consultation with their doctors. This clarification meant that shots would still be covered by the Federal Government Vaccines for Children, which pays photos for families who have no money or adequate health insurance coverage. He is now responsible for about half of infantile vaccinations in the United States each year.

As with influenza vaccines, however, there are new COVVI-19 formulations every fall, to take into account the changes in which the strains circulate. The Committee has not yet voted on the advisability of recommending COVVI-19 plans for this season or if these shots should be covered by the VFC program.

Compliating the photo more: When the FDA conceded the granting of the fall of the fall-19, the agency has taken an unusual step to shrink their use for healthy adults and children.

If the AICPI simply follows this, and if there is no additional CDC clarification language, then “it would take an access for about half of the American children,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The pediatrician group means that vaccinations continue for all children from 6 months to 2 years old.

Hepatitis B can cause serious liver infections. In adults, the virus is propagated by sex or by sharing needles during the use of injection use.

But the virus can also be transmitted to a baby of an infected mother, and up to 90% of infected infants continue to have chronic infections.

A hepatitis B vaccine was dismissed for the first time in the United States in 1981. In 2005, the AIPI recommended a dose within 24 hours of birth for all medically stable infants who weigh at least 4.4 pounds (2 kilograms).

Infantile vaccinations are stressed for women who have hepatitis B or, above all, who have not been tested for this. Infants’ shots are effective from 85% to 95% to prevent chronic infections of hepatitis B, have shown studies.

Neonatal vaccinations of hepatitis B are considered a success, and no recent research evaluated by peers shows any security problem by giving children the first day of life, said Schaffner.

But the members of Kennedy’s APIP suggested in June that they wanted to revisit the advice.

Schaffner noted that health officials had mothers screening before birth, but that many cases were missed.

“There have been many failures,” he said. “And so there were continuous transmissions from mother to child.”

Chickenpox was once a common childhood discomfort, causing a rash and a fever of itching.

But the very contagious virus can also cause complications such as skin infections, brain swelling and pneumonia. Serious cases are more common in adolescents and adults who get it for the first time. The virus – called chickenpox – can also reactivate later in life and cause painful disease called zona.

The government first recommended that all children get a chickenpox vaccine in 1995, resulting in a spectacular drop in cases and deaths.

In 2005, a combined MMRV shot – measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox – was authorized. The CDC initially recommended that doctors and parents use the combo drawn from separate mmr and chickenpox injections.

But in a few years, studies have shown that children who have obtained the more often paid combo have developed a rash, fever and – in rare cases – convulsions after vaccination compared to children who have obtained separate fire.

In 2009, the AIPI changed its recommendation, removing preferential language and saying that the shooting of the combination or separate shots were acceptable for the first dose.

Today, most pediatricians suggest distinct doses for the first time, but give the combined shooting for the second dose, according to pediatric experts.

Again, there is no new evidence on damage to MMRV shots, said O’Leary, from AAP.

Why see him again now?

“This version of the AIPI is an effort orchestrated to sow the distrust of the vaccines,” said O’Leary.

Meanwhile, HHS officials announced five new members of the committee on Monday – listing the list at 12.

The new members are:

– Hillary Blackburn, pharmacist and podcaster who, according to HHS officials, is director of access to drugs and affordability for AscensionRx.

– Dr. Evelyn Griffin, obstetrician and gynecologist based in red baton, in Louisiana.

– Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who, with his wife, operates a medical missionary organization called for hearts and souls. He appeared at a congress hearing in 2024 during which he declared that an increase in cardiovascular disease in older adolescents and young adults had to be attributed to vaccines.

– Dr. Raymond Pollak, specialist in transplantation based in Skokie, Illinois.

– Catherine Stein, researcher of the disease at Western Reserve Case University. During the Pandemic COVID-19, she worked with an anti-Vaccin group from Ohio and argued that the number of cases was inaccurate and that the coronavirus was not as dangerous as the health officials portrayed.

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