[IMA-HelenT]

The Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), a national coalition of physicians, healthcare providers, and medical researchers, today applauded the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for reinstating the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines—a long-overdue step toward improving the safety, quality, and transparency of childhood vaccines.

Created by Congress but disbanded in 1998, the task force will be placed under the leadership of National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya with input from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Task Force will work alongside the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines.

“The reinstatement of the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines is a big win for children and parents, as well as for science-based healthcare,” said Dr. Joseph Varon, President and Chief Medical Officer of the IMA. “In the aftermath of the COVID debacle, parents rightly have major concerns about the health and safety of government agency-recommended vaccines. This move will give families the needed comfort knowing that safety comes first once more in America’s healthcare system.”

[Tanya Marquette]

This sounds great but I have to wonder how independent this Task Force will be. There is great lobbying pressure to continue Pharma supported drugs without oversight and HHS is already being sued by the AAP and maybe others. Despite Kennedy’s prestigious position as head of HHS he is consistently trashed in the media and people are just not getting what he is trying to achieve. The ACIP committee disbanded is still seen as the lords of honesty and the replacements as nincompoops dredged up from the trash. Had a conversation just yesterday with a man who basically put out this propaganda narrative but fortunately I was able to get him to hear that he has been given fake information and should actually see what Kennedy is doing as per his own words. Unfortunately Kennedy is not doing a good job of marketing his work and speaking well to the public. For a lawyer is pretty bad at expressing himself publicly which is surprising.

[IMA-HelenT]

Hi @tamarque Just love your use of the word NINCONPOOPS 😂😂The ACIP committee disbanded is still seen as the lords of honesty and the replacements as nincompoops dredged up from the trash.

I suppose like everything that is happening right now, its often a wait and see senario, hope for the best but watch carefully that its not just a bit of wallpapering.

I wonder if Kennedy is very hamstrung by what he is “allowed” to say.

Apprecaite you joining the conversation