September 17, 2025Sep 17 HHS names 5 new members to CDC vaccine advisory board September 15, 2025 "The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced the addition of five new members to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), just days ahead of the group's next meeting. ... The new ACIP members are Catherine Stein, PhD, a professor in the Department of Population & Quantitative Health at Case Western Reserve University; Evelyn Griffin, MD, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Baton Rouge General Hospital in Louisiana; Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA, director of medication access affordability with Ascension Rx in St. Louis; Kirk Milhoan, MD, PhD, a pediatric cardiologist and medical director at For Hearts and Souls Free Medical Clinic in Hawaii; and Raymond Pollak, MD, a semi-retired surgeon and transplant specialist. ... [HHS Secretary Robert F.] Kennedy Jr. said the five new members will bring "diverse expertise that strengthens the committee and ensures it fulfills its mission with transparency, independence, and gold-standard science." But, as with the first group of ACIP members named by Kennedy, some of the new members appear to align with Kennedy's views on COVID-19 vaccines and the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Milhoan is a senior fellow at the anti-mRNA Independent Medical Alliance and has claimed that COVID vaccines pose more harm than benefit, Politico reports. Stein, who has researched tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, told Ohio lawmakers that health officials in the state were inflating COVID-19 death and hospitalization numbers and has made other assertions downplaying the pandemic, according to the Ohio Capital Journal. Griffin has expressed vaccine skepticism and testified against Louisiana's decision to add COVID-19 vaccines to the school immunization schedule, according to Medpage Today. (more) https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/hhs-names-5-new-members-cdc-vaccine-advisory-board Kennedy appoints five new members to US vaccine panel September 16, 2025 "Sept 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday appointed five new members to the revamped advisory panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy. This comes ahead of the panel's meeting this week to review guidance on shots for hepatitis B, measles-mumps-rubella-varicella and COVID-19, in a closely watched session that could further reshape the federal vaccination policy." Reuters https://archive.ph/wvQEQ According to Reuters, the new committee members include: --Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who has examined cases of myocarditis related to COVID-19 vaccination. According to a news report from 2022, he backed the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin - both unproven treatments for COVID-19 - to treat the illness during the pandemic. --Catherine Stein, an epidemiologist at Case Western Reserve University who argued against campus COVID-19 vaccine mandates in 2022. --Evelyn Griffin, a Louisiana-based obstetrician who has called vaccine mandates for COVID-19 vaccines "a line in the sand" that should not have been crossed.
September 17, 2025Sep 17 Author Background on Kirk Milhoan: Discredited COVID-19 vaccine skeptics tied to RFK Jr. group try to sway Franklin County December 19, 2024 ... All the speakers have links to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense. The group has been described as one of the primary sources of anti-vaccination misinformation, according to research on the spread of misinformation. ... Misinformation and debunked claims The first speaker Wednesday was Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist from Hawaii, who was investigated by the state’s medical board for allegedly spreading misinformation about the use of hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin as treatment for the virus. Milhoan advocated for not vaccinating children, claiming he’d seen a variety of cardiac issues he believes were caused by the vaccine. He claimed people who were vaccinated and boosted were at higher risk of infection, and said that children who have the lowest risk of side effects such as myocarditis events were those who weren’t vaccinated." (more) https://www.yahoo.com/news/discredited-covid-19-vaccine-skeptics-130000894.html And per CNN: "Milhoan appeared at a 2024 panel led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, on injuries caused by Covid-19 vaccines. During the panel, he said the vaccines had caused heart-related deaths and disability, and he cited a study from the Cleveland Clinic that he said showed that the more vaccines a person got, the more likely they were to get Covid-19. Independent fact-checkers said that was a misinterpretation of the findings" https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/15/health/cdc-acip-new-members
September 17, 2025Sep 17 Author Background on Catherine Stein: She’s a public health professor by day; a COVID-19 truther by night February 22, 2021 ... On blogs, research posts published by anti-vaccine political groups, and in testimony to state lawmakers, Stein insists that COVID-19 simply isn’t that bad. She claims that the Ohio Department of Health pads its case counts; the Ohio Hospital Association inflates hospitalization numbers it provides to ODH; health officials fear monger via flawed projection models; the death count only looks bad because of the rate of people dying of COVID-19 who have preexisting medical conditions; and other assertions downplaying COVID-19. ODH’s COVID-19 dashboard — which provides daily updates on cases, hospitalizations, infections, vaccinations, testing and more — has been “inaccurate, inconsistent, and confusing,” Stein alleged to lawmakers in June. Stein’s take on COVID-19, among the leading killer of Ohioans since its emergence, is unmistakably at odds with the greater public health community, nearly all of whom oppose various legislative attacks on the health department that Stein lends her expertise to support." https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/02/22/shes-a-public-health-professor-by-day-a-covid-19-truther-by-night/ And per CNN: "Stein has been critical of the nation’s response to Covid-19, including mask mandates and business closures. She co-authored a research paper on flawed models used during the state’s pandemic response for the group Health Freedom Ohio, which is affiliated with Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit founded by Kennedy. [emphasis added] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/15/health/cdc-acip-new-members
September 17, 2025Sep 17 Author Background on Dr. Evelyn Griffin: "Dr. Evelyn Griffin is an obstetrician and gynecologist based in Louisiana, according to Baton Rouge General's website. According to local reports, she has spoken against adding COVID-19 vaccines to the school immunization schedule as well as testified about adverse reactions of vaccines." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-cdc-acip-members-covid-vaccine-critics/ "Griffin criticized the country’s response to Covid-19 and the push for people to be vaccinated against it during a Health Freedom Day event in 2024." https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/15/health/cdc-acip-new-members RFK Jr. picks Louisiana doctor who questions COVID vaccine to top advisory panel "WASHINGTON – U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has appointed a Baton Rouge physician to the committee that recommends vaccination policies to the federal government — and she has repeatedly questioned COVID vaccines and other inoculations for children. “I am very, very skeptical,” Dr. Evelyn Griffin said in 2024 while speaking to the congregation of Rev. Tony Spell’s Life Tabernacle Church near Central City. “For a lot of us, the COVID experience has really opened our eyes. You know that I have a lot of concerns. One of those concerns, I would say, is about the COVID vaccine.” ... Griffin told the congregation concerns about the COVID vaccine prompted her to study other vaccines: what they’re made of, how they’re doing, and how those vaccines got on the childhood vaccination schedule. “Many physicians, like myself, are seriously questioning the vaccine schedule," she said." ... During testimony in 2022 before the Louisiana House Committee on Health and Welfare, Griffin said that she observed in her patients “bizarre and rare conditions” that she couldn’t pinpoint as being caused by the vaccine or by the disease itself." (more) https://www.nola.com/news/politics/national_politics/louisiana-doctor-rfk-jr-covid-vaccines/article_d461fb8f-898f-4401-8926-a05f294d9bbc.html "• Dr. Evelyn Griffin, who lost her job with Oschner’s [a major Louisiana-based nonprofit health provider] because of her refusal to take the Covid vaccine;" https://www.ochsner.org/about-ochsner/ https://stgeorgeleader.com/dr-peter-mccullough-keynote-speaker-4th-annual-health-freedom-day-april-5/
September 17, 2025Sep 17 Author RFK Jr. Appoints 5 New Members to CDC Vaccine Panel, Days Ahead of Meeting — None of the new ACIP panelists have expertise in vaccines September 15, 2025 ... Catherine Stein, PhD ... "During the COVID pandemic, Stein testified in support of bills allowing Ohio lawmakers to vote down public health orders and for a "Truth in COVID Statistics" bill, according to a report in the Ohio Capital Journal. In January 2021, when U.S. death totals from COVID had surpassed 350,000, she wrote that the virus is "not the scary killer the media and government portray it to be," and alleged the state health department inflated case counts, according to the article." ... Evelyn Griffin, MD ... "HHS noted that in addition to ob/gyn and lifestyle medicine, Griffin is board-certified in "functional medicine," though no such official certification exists. In 2023, Griffin testified against Louisiana's move to add COVID-19 vaccines to the school immunization schedule, the Lafourche Gazette reported. She said that "the average kid in Louisiana has a higher chance of getting struck by lightning than dying of COVID." Kirk Milhoan, MD, PhD "Milhoan is a pediatric cardiologist from Hawaii, who reportedly has ties to Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group founded by Kennedy. He has advocated against vaccinating children for COVID, saying he believed the shots caused cardiac issues, and supported using ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID, treatments that failed to show effectiveness in multiple randomized trials." (more) MedPage Today https://archive.ph/ZL9yR
September 18, 2025Sep 18 Popular Post Your posted hit-jobs are getting boring. Looking forward to learn about decisions made at today/tomorrow's ACIP meeting with the fresh perspective of not-bought pHarma-shills.
September 18, 2025Sep 18 At least they aren't in the big pharma/CDC revolving door. Let real science play it's role not big pharma funded science.
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