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	"author_name": "People&#x27;s CDC",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/peoples-cdc",
	"title": "Ask Congress to Ensure Universal Access to COVID Vaccines and Hold RFK Jr. Accountable",
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	"description": "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had their Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting this past week. This meeting had several presentations and discussions around vaccines, in particular COVID vaccines. As the public watched this two day meeting unfurl, it was a mess with the expertise of the CDC staff being questioned by newly appointed ACIP members who mostly were RFK Jr’s. puppets. As Secretary of the primary public health agency, Health and Human Services (HHS), his appointment of these ACIP members shows not only their lack of basic understanding of epidemiology or immunology but also his anti-vaccine position. Usually committee members are experts or have highly relevant experience in these areas and the former 17 members fired by RFK Jr. were experts of these fields. Even before the ACIP meeting, RFK Jr. bypassed expert advisory committee input and imposed restrictions on access to COVID vaccines, removing vaccine recommendations for pregnant people and children— against vast scientific evidence demonstrating vaccine efficacy at reducing severe illness, death and Long COVID. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been a source of deceptive claims on many public health issues. As the former founder of an anti-vaccine organization, he has continuously opposed COVID vaccines. He petitioned the FDA in May 2021 to stop COVID vaccinations, and instead promoted ineffective treatments for COVID such as ivermectin. Congress must have a public hearing with RFK Jr. to hold him accountable in support of vaccines. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana was the deciding vote in the successful nomination of RFK Jr. as secretary of HHS. Recently, Senator Cassidy finally spoke up with his concerns of the CDC’s ACIP. If you live in Louisiana, please call his office using the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or email the senator’s staff and express your frustration with RFK Jr.’s decisions regarding COVID vaccines and demand for a public hearing to hold RFK Jr. accountable . We are grateful for all of your voices in supporting universal access to COVID vaccines as the future leader of America’s primary public health agency. We need to ensure COVID vaccines remain available to everyone and that RFK Jr. is held accountable for his decisions and is actually protecting the health of the American public and the future of medicine and healthcare.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/savecovidvaccine"
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