{"id":30377,"date":"2025-06-24T16:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30377"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:25:03","slug":"cassidy-in-break-with-kennedy-calls-for-vaccine-meeting-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30377","title":{"rendered":"Cassidy, in Break With Kennedy, Calls for Vaccine Meeting Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Senate health committee chairman said new members of a key advisory panel who were appointed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. \u201clack experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The chairman of the Senate health committee, in his first significant break with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has called for a delay in this week\u2019s meeting of a panel of vaccine advisers, saying the group Mr. Kennedy appointed lacks the experience and diversity of opinion necessary to ensure public faith in its recommendations.<\/p>\n

The chairman, Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, made his comments in a social media post on Monday night. Mr. Cassidy, a physician and a strong proponent of vaccines, voted reluctantly to confirm Mr. Kennedy after announcing that the secretary had agreed to consult with him on significant matters and not to disband the advisory committee. The senator has carefully parsed his words about Mr. Kennedy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the appointees to ACIP have scientific credentials, many do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology,\u201d Mr. Cassidy wrote<\/a>, using the acronym for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn particular,\u201d Mr. Cassidy added, \u201csome lack experience studying new technologies such as mRNA vaccines, and may even have a preconceived bias against them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Kennedy, who has complained that committee members he fired were too close to the drug industry, defended the dismissals on Tuesday when he appeared before a House subcommittee to defend a budget blueprint for his department that called for major cuts. The health secretary called the old panel \u201ca template for medical malpractice\u201d during a fiery clash with Representative Frank Pallone Jr., Democrat of New Jersey.<\/p>\n

He then accused Mr. Pallone of being influenced by drug industry contributions to his campaigns, saying the lawmaker\u2019s \u201centhusiasm\u201d for the previous panel seemed to be \u201can outcome of those contributions.<\/p>\n

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The Senate health committee chairman said new members of a key advisory panel who were appointed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. \u201clack experience.\u201dThe chairman of the Senate health committee, in his first significant break with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has called for a delay in this week\u2019s meeting of a panel of vaccine advisers, saying the group Mr. Kennedy appointed lacks the experience and diversity of opinion necessary to ensure public faith in its recommendations.The chairman, Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, made his comments in a social media post on Monday night. Mr. Cassidy, a physician and a strong proponent of vaccines, voted reluctantly to confirm Mr. Kennedy after announcing that the secretary had agreed to consult with him on significant matters and not to disband the advisory committee. The senator has carefully parsed his words about Mr. Kennedy.\u201cAlthough the appointees to ACIP have scientific credentials, many do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology,\u201d Mr. Cassidy wrote, using the acronym for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u201cIn particular,\u201d Mr. Cassidy added, \u201csome lack experience studying new technologies such as mRNA vaccines, and may even have a preconceived bias against them.\u201dMr. Kennedy, who has complained that committee members he fired were too close to the drug industry, defended the dismissals on Tuesday when he appeared before a House subcommittee to defend a budget blueprint for his department that called for major cuts. The health secretary called the old panel \u201ca template for medical malpractice\u201d during a fiery clash with Representative Frank Pallone Jr., Democrat of New Jersey.He then accused Mr. Pallone of being influenced by drug industry contributions to his campaigns, saying the lawmaker\u2019s \u201centhusiasm\u201d for the previous panel seemed to be \u201can outcome of those contributions.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30379,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30380,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377\/revisions\/30380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}