RFK Jr. Has a Prescription for America: Pure Chaos https://www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-prescription-pure-chaos-vaccines-cdc-monarez-acip

" But the meeting also stood out for its disarray. One particularly memorable sequence started at the end of Thursday's session, when the panel prepared to vote on a resolution that would affect availability of the MMRV shot, which combines immunization for varicella (chickenpox) with immunization for measles, mumps, and rubella.

The resolution's wording and meaning were unclear, as one panelist protested openly. The panel approved it anyway, only to hold a new vote and reverse the decision at the start of Friday's session, evidently because several other panelists had also been confused.

"We are rookies," chairman Martin Kulldorff acknowledged in his opening remarks Friday which perhaps understated things, given that five of the twelve members hadn't even been named until four days before……….

During the Texas measles outbreak, Monarez said, neither she nor any of the career CDC scientists briefed Kennedy-something highly unusual for any outbreak, let alone one that had resulted in the first child measles deaths in decades. But the outbreak still kept her busy, in part because Kennedy was putting out so many false statements about vaccines.

"He said things like 'vaccines had fetal parts,'" Monarez said, "and I had to send a note to our leadership team to correct that misinformation."………

It's difficult to capture all the ways in which last week's meeting deviated from those norms, because it was so full of bizarre moments like the time on Friday morning when an open mic caught somebody saying "you're an idiot" while committee member and MIT professor Retsef Levi was speaking……….

The result was a series of unsubstantiated, ill-informed statements like the time one panelist asked about adjuvants in a vaccine that doesn't contain them, or moments when panelists seemed not to understand their authority that had prominent experts from around the country aghast. Among them was Stanley Plotkin, who developed the rubella vaccine in the 1960s and is the author of the field's standard textbook, Plotkin's Vaccines. After watching the proceedings, he wrote an email to Levi stating, "Please consider whether your grasp of immunology and public health is sufficient to make recommendations that will result in more disease. Modesty about your basic knowledge would help."