"On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the chairperson who has been in place since June-when Kennedy fired all 17 expert advisors on the committee and replaced them with questionably qualified allies-is moving to a senior role in the department. Biostatistician Martin Kulldorff will now be the chief science officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), HHS said. As such, he's stepping down from the vaccine committee, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)."
"Kulldorff gained prominence amid the COVID-19 pandemic, criticizing public health responses to the crisis, particularly lockdowns and COVID-19 vaccines. He was a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration that advocated for letting the deadly virus spread unchecked through the population, which was called unethical by health experts. As ACIP chair, Kulldorff frequently made false and misleading statements about vaccine safety and efficacy that were in line with Kennedy's views and statements."
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all 17 expert advisers on the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices with allies, then installed Martin Kulldorff as chair. Kulldorff will leave ACIP to become chief science officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at HHS. Kulldorff criticized pandemic public health measures, opposed lockdowns and COVID-19 vaccines, and co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration advocating unchecked viral spread. As ACIP chair, he reportedly made false and misleading statements about vaccine safety and efficacy and led decisions denounced by scientific and medical groups as ideological rather than evidence-based, including removing thimerosal from some flu vaccines and adding restrictions to the MMRV vaccine.
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