Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s revamped government panel of vaccine advisors recommended the use of Merck’s shot designed to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus during their first season of the virus.
The group, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, also voted unanimously to include Merck’s shot in a government program that provides free vaccines to eligible children.
The votes in favor of Merck’s shot are a sigh of relief for drugmakers and the medical community after Kennedy earlier this month gutted the panel and tapped replacements, some of whom are well-known vaccine critics.
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Wait this is actually good
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My one-year-old spent a week in the hospital with RSV. On oxygen the whole time. Deathly ill. Fucking horrible. Hope this saves people from that fate.
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Maybe we’ll get lucky and RFK will talk right but look left, but then highly partisan people on the left will be the new growth market for vaccine skeptics.
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Worth noting that it isn’t actually a vaccine. The RSV vaccine for infants failed in trials.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s revamped government panel of vaccine advisors recommended the use of Merck’s shot designed to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus during their first season of the virus.
The group, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, also voted unanimously to include Merck’s shot in a government program that provides free vaccines to eligible children.
The votes in favor of Merck’s shot are a sigh of relief for drugmakers and the medical community after Kennedy earlier this month gutted the panel and tapped replacements, some of whom are well-known vaccine critics.
Wait this is actually good
My one-year-old spent a week in the hospital with RSV. On oxygen the whole time. Deathly ill. Fucking horrible. Hope this saves people from that fate.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and RFK will talk right but look left, but then highly partisan people on the left will be the new growth market for vaccine skeptics.
Worth noting that it isn’t actually a vaccine. The RSV vaccine for infants failed in trials.