In their first vote since appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the eight members of a vaccine committee voted to recommend a shot that protects infants against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV....
The eight new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met for the first time June 25. Kennedy fired all 17 original members of the committee on June 9 and appointed its new members a few days later. Given the inclusion of vaccine skeptics, the approval comes as a surprise to close watchers of the panel.
Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's workgroup that presented data on the drug universally supported the drug. Two panel members still voted against it, however.
RSV infects nearly everyone by the time they’re 2. It causes cold symptoms, affecting the breathing passages and lungs, according to the CDC. In the United States, about 58,000 children younger than 5 are hospitalized for RSV each year, and several hundred die....
Will there be a new flu vaccine for fall 2025?
New panel members also unanimously voted to recommend the flu vaccines for all Americans six months and older.
Influenza levels in the U.S. hit a peak in the 2024-2025 season in February, when they were the highest they had ever been in 15 years, according to the CDC Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report.
Influenza vaccination rates in children are at their lowest level in six years, according to the agency. In 2025, fewer than half of Americans had been vaccinated for the 2024-2025 influenza season.
I wonder if KINO will overrule and then fire this panel.
... It's a precarious situation, especially given the ongoing measles outbreak. As the New York Times reported late last month, ill-informed measles patients were experiencing complications after following Kennedy's advice to take large amounts of Vitamin A....
Moron. Some liver damage is permanent.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
Thousands of employees across US federal health agencies received an email Monday afternoon telling them they were out of a job as of the close of business.
The firings were originally communicated April 1 for most of the included employees, but they’d been delayed as a legal battle played out. That culminated in a US Supreme Court decision July 8 that, the US Department of Health and Human Services said in the email, means the agency “is now permitted to move forward with a portion of its [reduction in force].”
“You are hereby notified that you are officially separated from HHS at the close of business on July 14, 2025,” read Monday’s notice to dismissed HHS employees, according to copies obtained by CNN. “Thank you for your service to the American people.” ...
KINO is out to destroy the health of Americans.
