The members highlighted their medical and clinical know-how, prolonged vetting, transparent procedures, and evidence-based technique to assisting set federal immunization programs, which impact insurance protection. They likewise regreted the institutional understanding lost by the elimination of the whole committee and its executive secretary, along with cuts to the CDC broadly. Together they “have left the US vaccine program critically weakened,” the specialists compose.

“In this age of government efficiency, the US public needs to know that the routine vaccination of approximately 117 million children from 1994–2023 likely prevented around 508 million lifetime cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1,129,000 deaths, at a net savings of $540 billion in direct costs and $2.7 trillion in societal costs,” they compose.

They likewise took direct focus on Kennedy, who unilaterally altered the COVID-19 vaccination policy, revealing the modifications on social networks. This “bypassed the standard, transparent, and evidence-based review process,” they compose. “Such actions reflect a troubling disregard for the scientific integrity that has historically guided US immunization strategy.”

Considering that Kennedy has actually taken control of the United States health department, numerous other vaccine specialists have actually been pressed out or left willingly. Peter Marks, the previous leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration, was apparently offered the option to resign or be fired. In his resignation letter, he composed: “it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [Kennedy], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”