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   AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 22:59:08 JST AkaSci 🛰️

   Here are the 8 new members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), who have replaced the 17 members fired on Monday by HHS Sec. RFK Jr.

   As expected, many of them are anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, who have made a living trashing vaccines and scientists, and peddling quack treatments.

   Instead of the glowing official bio, let's read how epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD, and others describe these people.

   https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
   https://apnews.com/article/cdc-acip-vaccine-committee-9f58e1f004075b081718ff078de88d76
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     AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 23:44:19 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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     Here is some additional info on 5 of the 8 new members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), who have replaced the 17 vaccine experts fired by HHS Sec. RFK Jr.

     These are the zealots who will now make life and death decisions for millions of Americans and people around the world.

     This comes on top of the firing of 1000s of scientists and healthcare experts in the FDA, NIH and CDC, with steep funding cuts to follow.
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     https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ttdaexuq2ca4ok5hfphc2h5q/post/3lreieyokts2i
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     AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 11:05:25 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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     On lives saved by COVID-19 vaccines -

     "Based on reported COVID‐19 deaths, vaccinations prevented an estimated 14.4 million deaths from COVID‐19 in the first year.

     If excess deaths were used, this estimate rose to 19.8 million deaths prevented, equating to a global reduction of 63% in total deaths (19.8 million of 31.4 million) during the first year of COVID‐19 vaccination."

     Bhattacharya and others claim 25k lives saved and 500k deaths due to COVID vaccines??

     https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9537923/
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     AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 11:05:25 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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     WSJ Ed. Board adds -

     Except for Meissner, the ACIP members seem to know little about vaccines.

     Kulldorff and Malone have served as paid 'expert' witnesses in lawsuits against vaccine makers.

     Levi isn't involved in medicine or biology, is a business school prof. at MIT.

     Hibbeln is a nutritional neuroscientist with research focus on omega-3 fatty acids.

     Pagano has written 2 novels and denounced a study finding that ivermectin was an ineffective Covid treatment.

     https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-vaccine-board/
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     AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 11:05:26 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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     Facts vs Disinformation on vaccines.

     From 1974 to 2004, vaccines averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years.

     Many more millions of lives were saved before 1974 and after 2004.

     The pic below shows Martin Kulldorff (white shirt) and the new NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya (left) spreading disinformation about COVID vaccine at some conference.

     https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/story-measles-five-charts
     https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00850-X/fulltext
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