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Opinion: The U.S. needs an alternative organization to protect vaccine guidance from political interference
A former FDA commissioner and a former Institute of Medicine president are teaming up to create the Vaccine Integrity Project in case of political interference with U.S. government vaccine policy.
Vaccines don’t save lives. Vaccinations do. And every dollar spent on routine immunization in the U.S. is estimated to save $11, not to mention that vaccinations have prevented countless deaths and suffering.
Yet U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent decades spreading false warnings about the danger of vaccines, including their purported association with autism, a thoroughly debunked claim. The administration has also taken a series of deeply worrisome actions to halt vaccine research, cancel vaccine clinics, and remove vaccine information from government websites.
