DEAR EDITOR:

On June 26, The Vindicator ran an article about the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices known as ACIP. ACIP advises the CDC on the vaccines children and adults should take and when. Recently, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the committee because they all had conflicts of interests. He accused the committee of just being a rubber stamp for the pharmaceutical industry approving anything put before them.

He replaced them with doctors, scientists and other members free of such conflicts.

The committee chair, Martin Kulldorff, stated vaccines are not all good or all bad and that the committee must keep up to date as they are learning more about vaccines.

They are tasked with looking at the cumulative effects of vaccines as this has never been studied.

The CDC-recommended childhood schedule has grown from three vaccines in the mid-1980s to more than 15, of which many are bundled like the MMR, which is for three distinct diseases — measles, mumps and rubella. The current schedule translates to about 27 doses by age 2 and 56 doses by the age of 18. Some vaccines are given in a series over months or annually like the flu vaccine and now the COVID vaccine.

The committee plans on looking at the Hepatitis B vaccine that is given to hours-old infants before they leave the hospital. Hep B is a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease. Do day-old infants need such a vaccine if their mothers are not Hep B positive? Also, they’ll be looking at the MMR vaccine that also contains the chicken pox vaccine, known as the MMRV. Four live viruses administered in one shot.

My own son received those four live viruses at his 12-month “well-baby” visit and shortly after experienced a profound developmental regression and onset of chronic illnesses he never rebounded from.

Apparently, the American Academy of Pediatrics is upset that ACIP will be taking these actions. Because of a 1986 law enacted by Congress, vaccine manufacturers and doctors can’t be sued for vaccine injuries. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. U.S. law (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34) was signed by President Ronald Reagan on Nov. 14, 1986, to address vaccine-related injury claims while ensuring a stable vaccine supply.

NCVIA was established to protect injured children, but ultimately favored protecting Big Pharma and people who earn their living giving vaccines, gifting them with no liability. Most people are unaware of this fact.

No one involved in manufacturing or giving vaccines that are on the childhood schedule can be sued.

The AAP intends to ignore ACIP and plans to administer their own vaccine schedule. If they plan to do this they should be stripped of their indemnification immediately.

Under their watch and “care” things like autism and chronic diseases have exploded in children. One in 31 children now have autism and 54% of children now have at least one chronic disease.

For being the most heavily vaccinated children in the world American children are certainly not the healthiest.

ANDREA KELLER

Canfield