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CDC’s ACIP Vaccine Advisory Panel Lacks Leader and Voting Members

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In making decisions about which vaccines should or should not be given to people and when developing childhood, adolescent and adult vaccination schedules, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) heavily relies on recommendations provided by an outside group of 15 medical and public health professionals, who make up a panel known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Members of the ACIP are selected and appointed by Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).1 2 3 4

The ACIP, which typically meets three times a year at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, “develops recommendations on how to use vaccines to control disease in the United States.” The ACIP’s recommendations, which are approved by majority vote, are then provided to the director of the CDC, who usually endorses and adopts them as official CDC policy. The recommendations are subsequently published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).3 4

Of the 15 members of the ACIP, 14 members have experience in vaccinology, immunology, pediatrics, internal medicine, nursing, family medicine, virology, public health, infectious diseases, or preventive medicine. One member is designated to serve as a consumer representative to provide “perspectives on the social and community aspects of vaccination.”4

In addition to the 15 voting members of the ACIP, the panel includes 30 non-voting representatives from trade associations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Nurse Midwives, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Physicians.4

ACIP Releases Vaccine Recommendations for 2024

The most recent ACIP recommendations for the 2024 childhood, adolescent and adult vaccination schedules were made public on Jan. 11, 2024. Changes suggested by the ACIP for this year’s childhood and adolescent schedule included:

… new or updated recommendations for influenza vaccine, pneumococcal vaccines; respiratory syncytial virus monoclonal antibody (RSV-mAb)—birth through 18 months; respiratory syncytial virus vaccines (RSV)—during pregnancy; COVID-19 vaccines; inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV); Mpox vaccine (Mpox)—18 years or older; and meningococcal serogroups A, B, C, W, Y vaccine (MenACWY-TT/MenB-FHbp.5

The ACIP vaccine recommendations for this year’s adult schedule included:

…new and updated recommendations for respiratory syncytial virus vaccines (RSV), influenza vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines, inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), Mpox vaccine (Mpox), and meningococcal serogroups A, B, C, W, Y pentavalent vaccine (MenACWY-TT/MenB-FHbp).6

According to the ACIP, “This year’s schedule is particularly important because many adults are not up-to-date on recommended vaccines.”7

ACIP Lacks Chairperson and More Than Half Its Voting Members

The ACIP is central to helping set vaccination policy in the United States, yet the panel has been allowed to operate at less than half strength since the summer of 2023. STAT News reported last week that there have been eight vacancies on the panel since July 2023—one of those going back to 2022—and the terms of four of the remaining eight members are scheduled to end in June 2024. This important panel has also been conducting business without a leader. It has no chairperson.8 9 10

“I really don’t know why,” Louisiana’s State Health Officer Joe Kanter, MD said. “From what I understand, what I’ve heard, the CDC has forwarded quite some time ago, their nominated individuals to the larger department, the federal HHS and HHS just hasn’t moved on it. … This is a real head scratcher.”8

Has ACIP Become Dysfunctional and Do CDC Officials Make Vaccine Policy in a Silo?

Dr. Kanter believes that staffing gaps in the ACIP makes it difficult for the panel to properly do its job to ensure that the vaccines it reviews meet the “safe and effective” standards it is charged to uphold. He noted:

Look, the vaccine manufacturers, the pharmaceutical companies, if they had their way, recommendations for their vaccines would be brought… They want the largest market possible. So they have a lot of lobbyists that try and expand the body of individuals who would be recommended to get a vaccine, like you would expect any lobbyist in that position to do. That’s just the reality of it.11

Kanter added:

It’s the job of [the ACIP], which is made up of experts… pediatricians, immunologists, researchers… to actually look at the data, to look with a very critical eye at the studies which the vaccine manufacturers sponsor, compare that to studies that were truly financially independent, and to make the best decision on behalf of the American people. It’s a very important counterbalance to whatever information the vaccine manufacturers are putting in front of people. And it has to be staffed with qualified individuals. To have the committee half-ass now, that’s really taking the […] out of its work.11

One of the main concerns about the lack of an ACIP chairperson and enough voting members is that government officials tasked with developing and regulating vaccines and making vaccine use recommendations, rather than outside physicians and scientists, will serve on the advisory panel as temporary voting members to ensure there is the required quorum for meetings. This practice severely limits the independent oversight and guidance that ACIP is supposed to provide to the CDC, which serves to increase the public’s lack of confidence in federal vaccine policymaking.12


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4 Responses

  1. ACIP is a very bad joke. The recommendations are a bad joke, causing more pain, suffering and death than just about anything else.
    The powers that shouldn’t be are on the road to commanding everyone to get shot up with anything and everything Big Harma wants to sell us, no questions asked.
    People need to know that vaccination is NOT immunization. Far from it; it actually interferes with the functioning of the immune system and makes it much worse over time, causing chronic disease that would not have appeared if the body was allowed to do what it was meant to do to protect itself.
    Government has no place or authority when it comes to people’s choice about health.
    We need to call for immediate disbanding of ACIP, CDC, NIAID, and all the other evil players who have usurped the American people’s sovereignty over our bodies.

  2. Why isn’t it tested on the panel members before in order for them to make a more informed consent with more knowledge and wisdom.

    Why aren’t any members on the committee that are mothers, and other educated individuals rather than only health care related people?

  3. Government officials make the final call? Of course they do. So do for sale interests and bought out people, aka the board member appointees. This is not democratic process, we the people do not vote for any of this. That’s why forever to infinity, the recommended vaccine schedule grows, and grows, and grows, and grows. Up to how many for a child, hundreds of doses in sixty something rounds of shots over a mere ten to fifteen years. Then adults, whom most are far behind on boosters, another few hundred or more shots. A lifetime of getting stabbed in the arm repeatedly forever from birth to death. Because thirty lobbyists surrounding fifteen insider appointees, have invested interests, stand to make real money from every new individual approval.

    RFK Jr clearly described these events, having been there in person himself before. Quite conversations are had among individuals. The group votes. The vaccine schedule expansion is approved, as it always is expanded, without a doubt. All the people run out into the hallways and call their other insiders and trading brokers about the specific details. They buy the stocks for all the vaccines they just forced an entire country to take under threat of government coercion. They get rich, the public gets sick, chronic illness expands, systematic violations of peoples civil and human rights are overlooked, any evidence of vaccine related harm is defacto rejected and any person pushing such safety warnings becomes instant persona non grata. Welcome to ‘modern medicine’.

    These people are not experts. This is not science. Repeat after me; Safe AND Effective. (Effective is the part where they all get rich while systematically discriminating against every single individual, man, woman, and child, whom objects to these unethical unaccountable pay to play systems.) The phone call goes something like this; ‘Great job boys, another ten million per investor, we Fast Tracked another one. See you at the club.’ Faux medical professionals whom take this process seriously need to reconsider their careers because they’re clearly incompetent. What harm? Where? You’re not a doctor like me. No exemptions! No opt outs! I’m invested in these systems too!

    What a joke the entire medical system has become. They’ll never find a cure for anything. They do not create cures, they create customers while never stopping to manufacture profits. The more vaccines people take, the more chronic illnesses they suffer, the more times they go back to hospitals, forever to infinity. These are criminal enterprises not government safety advisors. They do nothing but accept things of value and violate just about ever applicable law which would be applied elsewhere. Now here is the really neat part; They wrote in special exceptions to otherwise applicable rules and laws, in their CDC by laws. And just like that; Illegal unethical activity becomes legal. But it will never be ethical and these people if operating this way outside of this insider system would be in shackles and handcuffs. Every single time we see a child all vaccine damaged and grotesque, we think of the CDC’s vaccination advisory panel. Because it’s their fault another human being was harmed.

  4. I get all my recommended vaccines.
    and ACIP should get all their recommended vaccines.
    Do u get all your recommended vaccines?
    Which vaccine do u recommend?
    I don’t recommend any vaccines.

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