CDC Advisory Panel Votes Against Some Flu Vaccines

ABC News reports:

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), made up of members recently hand-selected by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted 5-1 on Thursday to recommend against flu vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal.

Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative, which is used to prevent microbial contamination of vaccines. Most flu vaccines currently used in the United States contain little to no thimerosal, but both the FDA and the CDC say there is no evidence low doses of thimerosal in vaccines cause harm other than minor reactions at the injection site, such as redness or swelling.

Kennedy, who has promoted vaccine-skeptic views that experts and decades of robust research have refuted, wrote a book in 2014 falsely claiming thimerosal is “toxic to brain tissue” and may cause autism, calling for its removal from all vaccines.

Read the full article. On the committee Robert Malone [photo], the nation’s second-most notorious anti-vax nutbag. Earlier this month RFK fired all 17 actual scientists from the committee.

Thimerosal, a mercury-based vaccine preservative that was taken out of nearly all vaccines in the U.S. decades ago, dominated the discussion at the CDC’s advisory panel meeting, leaving medical experts baffled and alarmed. https://t.co/kukjXZHZwK

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