"Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today appointed two obstetricians-gynecologists to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Both appointees have a history of questioning vaccine safety in pregnancy, and one has erroneously claimed COVID-19 vaccines caused miscarriages."

RFK Jr. appoints 2 vocal opponents of vaccine use in pregnancy to federal advisory board

One appointee has erroneously claimed COVID-19 vaccines cause miscarriages.

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“We found that F.D.A. staff and scientists were basing the recommendations on the evidence, and that’s how it’s supposed to be,” said one of the study’s authors, Dr. Caleb Alexander, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “The F.D.A. wasn’t making decisions that suggest that they were on one side or another of larger societal debates governing mifepristone regulation.”

F.D.A. Decisions on Abortion Pill Were Based on Science, New Analysis Finds

A study of more than 5,000 pages of agency documents on mifepristone over 12 years found that agency leaders almost always followed the evidence-ba...

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