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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 3: Antivax rhetoric and incompetence at ACIP
The CDC's newly reconstituted antivax Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met last week. The results weren't as horrific as I'd expected, but not for lack of trying. In this post, I'll focus on one presentation as a lens through which to look at the meeting as a whole.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 2: VAERS, the FDA, and ACIP
The Food and Drug Administration appears to be about to weaponize a classic antivax trope against COVID-19 vaccines, the abuse of reports to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System to falsely portray them as deadly, even as news reports suggest that RFK Jr. will further restrict access to COVID-19 and three childhood vaccines. Here we go again.

