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Sep 25, 2026
Brent SchneppGUEST
with new
Gabriel BossletHOST
members by RFK Jr. I'm sure this will be a goat rodeo, just like the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is, because we have incompetent people running our national health administrations.
Tracy WilkinsonHOST
Yep.
Tracy WilkinsonHOST
There is a story that came out of the White House that Trump is kind of thinking about drafting an executive order that would expand the administration's control over the NIH with like an external committee that would veto any awards that have been decided by the NIH.
Michael OsterholmHOST
The VFC website, which has a bullet point at the top stating, and I quote, VFC is one of the most important contributors to vaccine access, unquote.
Michael OsterholmHOST
and says that the VFC automatically covers vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and approved by the CDC, which includes vaccines for children ages 18 years or younger.
Michael OsterholmHOST
I suspect because there is not an ACIP recommendation due to the lack of a functioning ACIP, this holdout may continue.
Michael OsterholmHOST
I sure hope this is not the case and it can be restored quickly.
11 MINS LATER
Michael OsterholmHOST
For listeners who didn't tune into the previous episode of September 2nd, the American Academy of Pediatrics, Infectious Disease Society of America, American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists had a coordinated release of vaccine recommendations for the upcoming respiratory season.
Michael OsterholmHOST
These recommendations were developed based on the COVID-19, RSV, and influenza evidence review conducted by the Vaccine Integrity Project and represent months of high-level scientific collaboration.
Michael OsterholmHOST
Although this work is typically the role of the advisory committee on immunization practices, the Vaccine Integrity Project and the American Medical Association have filled this gap during this era when the committee does not function as intended.
Michael OsterholmHOST
Ali's question is why the recommendations didn't include a recommendation for RSV vaccine for high-risk adults, and the good news is they actually did include it.
Peter McCulloughGUEST
We only have the Merck MMR available here.
Peter McCulloughGUEST
And recently, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices that just met in Washington, the, one of the things they did decide on is to push the MMRV-
Marissa StreitHOST
Yes
Peter McCulloughGUEST
... varicella out to past, uh, four years of age.
Jessica Malaty RiveraGUEST
There's also a really horrible complication that can happen years after a measles infection called SSPE, where a kid will kind of out of nowhere get a horrific encephalitis that is 100% fatal.
Jessica Malaty RiveraGUEST
And so it's, but honestly, Chelsea, then I think back at, you know, what we heard from Robert Malone at the ACIP meeting last year of 250 deaths from flu being a modest number.
Jessica Malaty RiveraGUEST
That's what I thought he
Chelsea ClintonHOST
was like when he was saying that.
Robert MaloneGUEST
That's a true statement.
Robert MaloneGUEST
And just to reel back a little bit, Naomi, you'll recall that Retza Flevi, myself, and the COVID Working Commission at the ACIP put together a rigorous extensive policy position paper that we were just about to discuss publicly when the ACIP got shut down, but it covered a lot of these issues and more.
Robert MaloneGUEST
And one of the things that just to kind of try to get a little bit of a wrapper around this, you know, am I typical? I don't know.
Robert MaloneGUEST
There's no question that there are a group of damaged persons associated with receiving this product that have severe neurologic consequences that are extremely difficult and refractory to medical management.
Gemma GaudetHOST
Pate, first of all, is a delay like this unusual? And I guess at what point does a delay become a real public health concern?
David PateGUEST
So, yes, it is unusual because generally as soon as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices makes its recommendation and the CDC director signs off, then it's covered by that Vaccine for Families program.
David PateGUEST
but the problem is, is that, um, uh, a panel of people who were wholly, wholly unqualified, uh, to be on that committee, uh, was challenged in court.
David PateGUEST
The judge issued a, um, uh, a, uh, order that, that, um, committee was not lawfully formed and and that all of its actions were reversed and instead of now appoint you know going back to the experts we had previously to see if we can get some of them to serve and getting new people which there are plenty of people that are qualified to do so RFK has just not, RFK Jr. has just not reconstituted this group.
Corey CavanaughGUEST
And so make sure your clinics are established for these protocols.
Corey CavanaughGUEST
And there's a lot of resources out there, ACIP guidelines.
Corey CavanaughGUEST
There is a CJSON plug coming in.
Corey CavanaughGUEST
So there is a tremendous article by Anusha Java and Carla Nestor that they recently wrote about this very topic.
Lynn Richards McDonaldGUEST
And cervical pathology, again, I'm going to reset the table.
Lynn Richards McDonaldGUEST
So this is a big organization that we use in the United States where this ACIP makes a decision on the guidelines of how we screen people for abnormal pap smears.
Lynn Richards McDonaldGUEST
And I am now a member, a practice member.
Lynn Richards McDonaldGUEST
So I, again, have a voice at the table.
Liz JamesGUEST
Um, we know that this is a problem.
Liz JamesGUEST
And, um, in 2025, um, Dr., um, Eldari and Dr. Cooper Wasser, who are from Tufts Medical Center University, Tufts University and Brown University, they presented, um, their findings to ACIP, which is the, um, Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices.
Liz JamesGUEST
And in that committee hearing, um, they, one of their findings was that the messenger RNA does stay in the blood for up to twenty-three months, and that cutoff date of twenty-three months is only because the studies ended at twenty-three months, not because that was the end of it all.
Liz JamesGUEST
But in their final findings, one of the things that they wrote and presented was that, um, there needs to be blood and tissue-based monitoring, and I reached out to them and asked if that was presented in such a way so that p- that they actively understood, the people in Washington, DC understand that blood and tissue-based monitoring is not happening in the blood banks.
David DeHaasHOST
The Varivax chickenpox vaccine was licensed in 1995 for use in children 12 months and older.
David DeHaasHOST
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended routine vaccinations for all healthy children in 1996.
David DeHaasHOST
Still continues to this day.
David DeHaasHOST
So Big Pharma started promoting this, and I think this was pretty cool.
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