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Members of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) newly-formed vaccine advisory panel voted Thursday to stop recommending influenza shots that contain the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.
At the end of a two-day meeting, the new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) passed three separate recommendations, each by a vote of 5-1, with one abstention, on removal of flu shots containing thimerosal for children, pregnant women, and adults.
In advance of the panel’s first meeting, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, penned a lengthy post on the X platform Tuesday, denouncing an article published last week in The Guardian that declared: “Thimerosal is an ethylmercury preservative used in multi-dose vaccine vials to prevent fungi and bacteria growth. The preservative has been studied and deemed safe, but was nevertheless removed from all routine childhood vaccines in 2001 as a precaution.”
Kennedy wrote that The Guardian’s pronouncement that thimerosal is “safe” was made “in conformance with the pharma-financed mainstream media’s mantric ritual of dutifully parroting the propaganda tropes spoon-fed them by vaccine makers and their captive regulators.”
“The Guardian did not bother to cite any peer-reviewed study” to support its assurance of thimerosal’s safety, the secretary asserted, adding that the media outlet simply “referenced a fact check website operated by the Pharma-funded American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)” that “likewise cites no peer-reviewed study to support this claim or its equally terse assertion that ‘Thimerosal has been removed from all routine childhood vaccines.’”
Kennedy rejected as “another treadworn lie of the vaccine industry” that thimerosal has already been removed from all routine childhood vaccines.
“There are high bolus doses of mercury in flu shots, which CDC recommends to pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy and as a routine vaccine for children at six months and in every year of life,” he argued. “Between conception and age 18, a compliant American child today could get a cumulative load of as much as 500 mcg of ethylmercury from multidose flu shots—nearly double of what they were once getting from all the childhood vaccines put together.”
In his post, Kennedy also referenced numerous peer-reviewed studies on mercury neurotoxicity, noting that thimerosal’s own label “advises against its use during pregnancy,” and that thimerosal “has never been shown to be safe and that it causes mutations in mammals.”
Additionally, the secretary observed that “[f]ederal and state laws provide that whenever expired thimerosal vaccines are disposed of, they constitute a hazardous waste.”
Kennedy’s mention of the AAP comes as the pediatrics association has been revealed to be a leading organizer in what appears to be an attempt to form a shadow healthcare system in order to retain influence over the healthcare decisions of Americans.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday in a piece titled “The plan to vaccinate all Americans, despite RFK Jr.,” that a coalition of groups, including the AAP, “are discussing ordering vaccines directly from manufacturers and giving greater weight to vaccine recommendations from medical associations.”
“And they are asking insurance companies to continue covering shots based on professional societies’ guidance instead of the federal government’s,” the Post noted.
“Today’s ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines,” AAP said in a June 25 post on X. “That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule – just as we have since the 1930s.”
Interestingly, AAP was also among the major establishment medical associations that disparaged the Supreme Court’s ruling last week that upheld Tennessee’s law that protects children with gender dysphoria from being subjected to experimental drugs and surgeries.
ACIP, which exists to make recommendations to the CDC regarding the safety, efficacy, and clinical need for vaccines, was reformed two weeks ago by Kennedy, who “retired” its original 17 members.
The ACIP votes came as Kennedy also announced in a post on X that the US is ending its support of GAVI, a public-private vaccine alliance fueled by the Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the organization known as UNICEF (formerly the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund).
“In its zeal to promote universal vaccination, @gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has neglected the key issue of vaccine safety,” Kennedy said in the post. “When vaccine safety issues have come before GAVI, it has treated them not as a patient health problem, but as a public relations problem.”
The secretary explained further GAVI’s involvement in suppressing opposing views during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“GAVI partnered with the World Health Organization to recommend best practices for social media companies to silence dissenting views and to stifle free speech and legitimate questions during that period,” he argued. “GAVI should consider the best science available, even when that science contradicts established paradigms. It should define success not just in terms of the number of vaccines delivered, but on their rigorously measured overall impacts. I call on GAVI to re-earn the public trust and to justify the $8 billion dollars that America has provided in funding since 2001.”
“Until that happens the United States won’t contribute more to GAVI,” Kennedy asserted. “Business as usual is over.”