Opinion: By remaking CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, RFK Jr. is destroying public trust
Eliminating ACIP’s expertise on the eve of critical votes about flu and RSV vaccines will delay guidance, confuse clinicians, and cost lives.
The image I can’t shake is a mother of two placed on a ventilator in the spring of 2021. She had declined vaccination after hearing the mRNA shot would “rewrite her DNA.” Despite every therapy our ICU could offer once I was called in, she never woke up.
During the first Covid winter of 2020, I watched dozens of nursing home residents die while we waited for a vaccine to be available. By the time this mother arrived, safe and effective vaccines were plentiful. Yet nearly every critically ill patient I was asked to see shared one trait: They were unvaccinated, casualties of a flood of misinformation.
