Healthy Returns: What to Know About a CDC Vaccine Panel's Votes Against a Mercury Preservative in Flu Shots

Healthy Returns: What to know about a CDC vaccine panel's votes against a mercury preservative in flu shots

The CDC panel voted against an ingredient that the anti-vaccine movement has long targeted, while Arcadia was acquired by private equity firm Nordic Capital.

What is thimerosal, and why did RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel just vote against it?

During the first meeting of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recently downsized vaccine panel, the group voted to stop recommending flu vaccines containing thimerosal, a vaccine […] The post What is thimerosal, and why did RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel just vote against it? appeared first on Poynter.

RFK Jr. vaccine advisory panel votes against thimerosal in flu vaccines

An influential vaccine advisory panel made up of allies of RFK Jr. has voted to recommend against the use of certain flu vaccines.

CDC panel votes against mercury-based preservative in flu shots

US jab committee green-lights flu shots, omits those ‘tied to autism’ - Juta MedicalBrief

The Trump administration’s new vaccine advisers have been slammed by some health experts and accused of encouraging vaccine mistrust, after endorsing only certain shots for this season’s flu jabs – those that are free of an ingredient falsely tied to autism by anti-vaccine groups. After Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had fired the 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP) and replaced them with several vaccine sceptic…