RFK Jr. Funcia to testify to the Senate Finance Committee in the middle of the agitation of the CDC, the changes of the vaccine

After a week of quick movement in the Nation’s Health Agency, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Come before the powerful Senate Finance CommitteeThat he has supervision about his department, on Thursday for hours of questions that will surely focus on his vaccine policy.

It arrives a week after the Food and Medicines Administration (FDA) significantly reduced access to the COVID-19 vaccine, a movement that precipitated a public consequence and expel the newly installed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Susan Monarez. Four senior CDC officials also resigned in protest.

The new approval of the FDA for COVID shots allows people over 65 to obtain the youngest, younger Americans who have an underlying condition that puts them at a higher risk of serious virus diseases.

Public health officials and pharmaceutical groups have said that change will make it difficult for young people to obtain the vaccine, if they still choose, and ask questions about where they can get it or if the insurance will cover it.

Thursday will be the first time that Kennedy faces questions from the senators since May, when he testified to a Senate Committee and a Chamber Committee, defending the massive cuts to the workforce of the department held in April.

Kennedy is expected to promote the revision in the HHS so far, which according to him aims to eliminate the swollen bureaucracy and conflicts of interest in public health agencies that are brought on the path of “standard gold science.”

In a statement, HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said that Kennedy will use the audience to “reaffirm her commitment to make the United States again healthy: restoring standard gold science in HHS, training patients with more transparency, options and access to care, and restoring confidence in public health.”

While Republicans as the president of the Finance Committee, Mike Crapo, will try to keep the focus On the chronic disease and the “Make America Again Again” agenda of Kennedy, the Democrats and even some Republicans will push Kennedy to obtain answers about the last change of the FDA, as well as in a next meeting of the CDC over vaccines, which could lead to more changes in the Vaccine Policy of the Nation.

The Advisory Committee for the Immunization of the CDC (ACIP), which discusses the vaccine data and makes recommendations for which vaccines must obtain and when, when it will evaluate the last change of the FDA, informing more to the insurance and pharmacies companies on how to carry out the policy.

But ACIP will also discuss a list of different vaccines, including the Covid vaccine; hepatitis B vaccines; the measles vaccine, paper, rubella, chickenpox (MMRV); and the respiratory syncitial virus (RSV) vaccine.

In June, Kennedy replaced the 17 members of the Committee in the Committee with their own hand-selected members, including some who have expressed points of view-skeptics-skeptics sought to discredit the safety and efficacy of RNA covid vaccines.

Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who is in the Senate Finance Committee, said he had spoken with other members of his Caucus who agreed that they needed to investigate what possible Kennedy changes and the CDC committee were weighing the recommendations of children’s vaccines.

“The problem is about the health of children, and there are rumors, accusations, that the health of children, which is in question here, could be in danger from some of the decisions that are intended to be made. I don’t know what is true,” said Cassidy. “I know we need to get there. And I talked to the members of my Republican Caucus, several of them. They have agreed with me that we need to get to that.”

Cassidy, who pushed Kennedy during his confirmation hearings to issue vaccines and publicly fought for his vote for him, has commissioned the presiding committee, the Senate committee on health, education, work and pensions (help), to make “monarch” supervision “expel, he, he, he, he expelled, he expelled, he expelled him wrote in x last week.

Cassidy said it does not “presuppose someone is right or bad.” “I just know we have to solve it,” Cassidy said.

Cassidy has also requested that the CDC meeting be postponed until a “significant supervision has been carried out,” citing “serious accusations” about the “agenda of the meeting, membership and lack of scientific processes.”

Republican senator Susan Collins de Maine, who is in the Help Committee with Cassidy, told reporters on Wednesday that she is “worried” and “alarmed” for the dismissal of Monarch.

“I know that the president has the right to fire whoever wants when it comes to that kind of appointment, but I see no justification for it,” said Collins.

Monarch, who was at work for only one month, was expelled after he refused to fire the senior officials and support the changes in Kennedy’s vaccine policy at a meeting with the secretary earlier last week, a source familiar with his conversations with the secretary with the secretary with the secretary.

“When the director of the CDC, Susan Monarch, refused to promote non -scientific and reckless directives and set fire to dedicated health experts, chose to protect the public instead of serving a political agenda. Therefore, it has been attacked,” said the lawyers of Monarch, Mark Zaid and Abbe Lowell, in a statement at the end of last week.

The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists that the president of the journalists, Donald Trump, had fired Monarch because “he was not aligned with the president’s mission to make the United States again healthy.”

“It was President Trump who was overwhelmingly re -elected on November 5,” Leavitt said. “This woman has never received a vote in her life, and the president has the authority to fire those who are not aligned with her mission.”

Other CDC officials who followed Monaz through the door included:

• DEB HOURY, medical director and Deputy Program and Science Director
• Dr. Dan Jernigan, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
• Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
• Dr. Jennifer Layden, Director of the Office of Public Health, Surveillance and Technology Data.

The officials cited the political climate and a negative to accept science that did not align with Kennedy’s beliefs.

Daskalakis, in an interview in “This Week” by ABC News, said he thought that the changes Kennedy have made so far is “the tip of the iceberg.”

In addition to the recent changes in the FDA for the Covid vaccine, Kennedy has also canceled up to $ 500 million in research and development for MRNA vaccines and has changed covid vaccines recommendations for pregnant children and women.

“I mean, from my point of view as a doctor that the Hippocratic oath has done, I only see that it is being wrong. But depending on what I am seeing, according to what I have heard with the new members of the Advisory Committee for immunization practices, or ACIP, they are really moving in an ideological direction where they want to see the lack of vaccines,” said Daskalakis.

Kennedy, when he testified in his confirmation hearings as Secretary of Health in January, denied that he was Anti -Baccina and said he supports “children’s schedule” for vaccines.

“I am Pro-Vacuna. I will support the vaccine program. I want the children to be healthy, and I come here to get rid of the conflicts of interest within the agency, make sure we have standard gold sciences based on evidence,” Kennedy said.

When he was pressed by Democratic Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon, Kennedy promised to support measles and polyomyelitis vaccines.

“Senator, support the measles vaccine, support the polyomyelitis vaccine. I will do nothing as HHS secretary that makes people difficult or discouraged to take any of those vaccines,” Kennedy said.