"Panel members have been given a broad mandate, despite pleas from C.D.C. employees asking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stop spreading misinformation."
"A task force formed by an influential advisory committee to review the safety of Covid vaccines will be led by a panel member who has described the shots as “the most failing medical product in the history of medical products.”
That member, Retsef Levi, is a management and health analytics expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve on the larger advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On the social media site X, Dr. Levi pinned a video from 2023 in which he called for the Covid vaccines to be removed from the market.
The task force was announced by Dr. Robert Malone, an advisory committee member, vaccinologist and outspoken vaccine skeptic. He pointed to the mandate outlined on the C.D.C. website indicating the review team would look into questions about immunization injury reports and other concerns related to the shots. Some of those issues have long been debunked by experts.
The creation of the review team, a subgroup of the C.D.C. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, is the latest twist in an escalating series of changes in vaccine policy by Mr. Kennedy."
Christina Jewett reports for the New York Times August 22, 2025.
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