The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention killed a campaign that promotes seasonal flu shots and sought to stake a viral expert a few days after outspoken vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the country's top health official Major meetings have been cancelled.
Under Kennedy's leadership, the CDC stated, “Mild Initiative from Wild” – It was intended to encourage high-risk people to get vaxxed – Wednesday infuriated as one of the worst flu seasons in decades. NPR reported.
The ADS was used as an analogy to reducing the threat of influenza viruses when vaccinated animals.
However, CDC staff were told in a meeting with the National Center for Vaccination and Respiratory Diseases that the campaign would not continue, the outlet reported. Information about the campaign has been removed from the CDC web page.
On Thursday, HHS ordered a CDC I will definitely postpone the meeting Of the vaccine advisory committees Kennedy has criticized in the past, it is scheduled for February 26th and February 28th. Washington Post reported.
The move comes less than a week after Kennedy was sworn in as President Trump's secretary to the US Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS denied that the flu shot campaign was pulled from the website.
“No, the CDC was not told to remove the flu vaccination campaign webpage,” Health and Human Services said in a statement, according to the Tech News site. arstechnica.com
“Unfortunately, it appears that Secretary Kennedy and officials within the CDC who dislike President Trump's agenda are intentionally forging and misrepresenting the guidance they received,” the statement said.
A HHS spokesperson also told the Washington Post that the vaccine conference was “suspended to respond to public comments prior to the meeting.”
However, as of Friday, the meeting had not been rescheduled.
