Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has chosen a vaccine critic to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 vaccine advisory committee. Retsef Levi has previously slammed mRNA vaccines, saying they can cause serious harm and death, especially among children, and called for their immediate withdrawal. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) reviews data related to vaccine safety and effectiveness. Kennedy, also a vaccine critic, fired the previous committee members, claiming they had conflicts of interest, questioning their links to Big Pharma, and saying “a clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science.” In 2023, Levi posted to his X account, “The evidence is mounting and indisputable that MRNA vaccines cause serious harm, including death, especially among young people. We have to stop giving them immediately!” The Daily Beast has contacted the Department of Health and Human Services and Levi for comment. The Beast reported Monday that Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist and close associate of RFK Jr., said the Trump administration will pull the COVID vaccine “within months.”
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