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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/new-cdc-advisers-vaccines-conflict-of-interest-pharma/

9 New ‘Independent’ Advisers to CDC Publicly Promoted Vaccines or Took Money From Pharma — or Both

After struggling for months to fill seats on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced nine new appointees. All have financial ties to vaccine makers or have publicly promoted COVID-19, RSV and HPV vaccines — or both.

• HHS appointed new members to the ACIP – 9 of which have conflicts of interest
• ACIP, which is supposed to be an independent, nonfederal expert body has nothing to do with health and everything to do with profit
• The group includes 14 medical experts and a singular lay member to represent consumers as well as a non-voting body of eight ex officio members from other federal health departments & health-related organizations
• The group recently lacked enough members to vote, requiring temporary government employees to fill in
• The group  has also struggled to fill vacancies which will only increase in June
• The article states that ‘stringent measures and rigorous screening,’ were used yet ALL of the new appointees have received grant funding or consulting fees from major pharmaceutical companies, including vaccine makers like Pfizer, Moderna and Merck, or have worked for HHS or on recent HHS grants developing or testing vaccines or investigating how to improve vaccine uptake.
• Many were also key public advocates for the COVID, RSV, and HPV vaccines.
• The article gives specifics on appointees and their conflicts, which is frankly depressing and clearly unethical.

Another perfect example that corrupt government agencies are beyond hope and rehabilitation, and quit caring about health decades ago, if they ever did.