Investigate RFK Jr.'s dismantling of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and restore it immediately with qualified infectious disease experts. Three Americans died from measles last week, including a seven-month-old baby in New York and a 21-year-old postpartum woman in Pennsylvania. These deaths are preventable, and they are happening because Kennedy replaced science with vibes and deliberate misinformation.
The US is on the verge of losing its measles elimination status, a public health achievement that took decades to build. Before Kennedy disbanded ACIP, it was actively monitoring the outbreak and could have moved to accelerate the MMR vaccination schedule in outbreak areas. Now, during a historic surge in cases and deaths, recommendations haven't changed, and CDC leadership refuses to say the one word that could slow this outbreak: vaccinate. Former ACIP member Yvonne Maldonado was direct: "We don't have an ACIP. That's going to impact disease and deaths in the US."
Reconstituting the committee through normal CDC channels can take months or years, and changing recommendations takes another 12 to 18 months after that. Congress cannot wait for that process while children and adults keep dying. Demand that ACIP be reconstituted with genuine scientific expertise, not Kennedy's allies, and force CDC leadership to speak clearly and urgently about vaccination before elimination status is gone for good.
First sent on November 10 by Karla
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