From [HERE] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “independent vaccine advisers” voted 15-0 on Oct. 20 to add COVID-19 vaccines to the 2023 childhood, adolescent and adult immunization schedules, prompting Americans to question the integrity of the agency’s panel tasked with making vaccine recommendations for kids.

Schools and state legislatures use the CDC’s immunization schedules to set vaccine requirements for students who wish to attend school, which will inevitably force millions of children across the U.S. who live in states where there are no religious or philosophical exemptions to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Only 21 states have explicitly banned mandating the shots for students.

According to the CDC, its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) committee consists of medical and public health experts who develop recommendations on the use of vaccines in the U.S.

Their recommendations form the basis of the CDC’s public health guidance for the “safe use of vaccines and related biological products,” and set the agency’s immunization schedule.

Since the first COVID-19 vaccine was authorized on Dec. 14, 2020, people have witnessed what can only be described as shocking guidance issued by the CDC, which not only signed off on COVID-19 vaccines for kids but recently authorized bivalent boosters for children that have not been subjected to human clinical trials.

Although the CDC and corporate media claim the agency’s vaccine advisory panel making COVID-19 vaccine recommendations are independent experts capable of rendering objective opinions, and by extension, objective votes, this is simply not true. Every single panel member has ties to either U.S. regulatory agencies or the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the vaccines they’re tasked with regulating.

What is the ACIP committee and who decides who’s on it?

The ACIP was established under Section 222 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. §2l7a) and is governed by the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App 2).

The ACIP provides advice and guidance to the CDC’s director on the use of vaccines. If accepted, the recommendations are published as official recommendations by the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

According to the CDC’s website, the ACIP includes 15 voting members tasked with making vaccine recommendations for the entire country. Members are selected by the secretary of HHS following an application and nomination process.

This is the same HHS that gave billions of U.S. tax dollars to pharmaceutical companies to develop and manufacture COVID-19 vaccines, gave billions to Pfizer and Moderna to purchase vaccine doses, collaborated with Johnson & Johnson to produce millions of “investigational” vaccine doses, was given $10 billion by the Biden administration to “expand access” to vaccines, launched a public education campaign with only positive messaging to increase confidence in and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines, gave $3 billion to the CDC to fund similar initiatives, and through public relations agencies, contracted with the corporate media to advertise only positive messaging about COVID-19 vaccines — depriving the American people of informed consent.

Currently, 14 members of ACIP have expertise in “vaccinology, immunology, pediatrics, internal medicine, nursing, family medicine, virology, public health, infectious diseases and/or preventive medicine. One member is a “consumer representative” who provides insight on the “social and community aspects” of vaccination.

In addition to 15 voting members, ACIP includes eight “ex officio members,” who have their position simply because of the office they hold. These ex officio members represent other federal agencies with “responsibility for immunization programs” in the U.S.

Ex officio members are expected to “represent the position and views of their sponsoring organizations, and to contribute to Committee discussions when issues of importance to their organization are being discussed and when they possess information important to the discussion.” Ex officio and liaison members also may serve on work groups to “provide expert advice” and apprise the work group of the position their organization endorses.

According to the CDC, ex officio members generally do not vote; however, if fewer than a quorum of ACIP members are eligible to vote due to absence or other conflicts of interest, the designee can temporarily designate the ex officio member — with obvious conflicts of interest — as a voting member.

There are also 30 non-voting representatives of “liaison organizations” with “related immunization expertise,” such as the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, America’s Health Insurance Plans, American Immunization Registry Association, American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association, Association for Prevention Biotechnology Industry Organization and National Medical Association.

Although the 15 voting members and representatives serve on the ACIP committee voluntarily — allowing the CDC to claim they are an “independent” panel of vaccine advisors — these members have conflicts of interest with both the CDC and pharmaceutical companies whose products they are regulating.

The one member of the current ACIP committee with no medical expertise runs an organization founded in the name of her child who allegedly died of pertussis and is funded by the CDC to promote vaccines for kids.

Excluded from these meetings are experts and scientists who have questioned COVID-19 vaccines and treatment protocols, organizations like the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, America’s Frontline Doctors and the almost one million doctors and experts who signed on to the Great Barrington Declaration.

There is not one member of the committee representing the thousands of vaccine-injured children, nor any organizations advocating for the millions of reported COVID-19 vaccine injuries represented.

It would seem on its face, that the CDC’s “independent” committee of vaccine advisors is biased and financially incentivized in other ways toward creating recommendations that favor a particular outcome. The only challenges to scientific consensus they receive come from the handful of public submissions — both for and against vaccine policy — that are allowed to be featured during a meeting.

Although thousands of public comments are posted for ACIP on the CDC’s website and agency guidelines state “comments will be addressed as soon as possible,” public commenting appears to be a mere formality, giving the public a false impression their voices are being heard.

As quickly as the CDC moves, and given the fact they had published an interim 2023 immunization schedule prior to the meeting that included the COVID-19 vaccines, it’s likely most of these comments joined the internet abyss of the millions ignored before them.

CDC ‘independent’ vaccine advisors have ties to CDC and Big Pharma

According to the CDC, the 15 members of its ACIP committee making the COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for U.S children and adults include:  

1. Lynne Bahta is a registered nurse and the immunization program clinical consultant for the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). In the fiscal year 2021, MDH received $11.6 million in Public Health Emergency Preparedness funding from the CDC and $34 million in crisis response funding for COVID-19.
   
   The CDC on Sept. 20, 2022, announced $90 million in funding to establish the Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence (PGCoE) network. The PGCoE network is a genomic surveillance program designed to “foster and improve innovation and technical capacity in pathogen genomics, molecular epidemiology, and bioinformatics to better prevent, control and respond to microbial threats.”
   
   MDH, where Bahta is employed, is one of five recipients of the $90 million CDC grant.

2. Dr. Beth Bell is a clinical professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington School of Public Health; however, she spent most of her career in “government service” at the CDC before joining the CDC’s “independent” panel of vaccine advisors.
   
   Bell started working with the CDC in 1992 and is the former director of the agency’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.
   

3. Dr. Oliver Brooks is the chief medical officer at Watts Healthcare Corporation in Los Angeles, California. He is a past president of the National Medical Association, chairman of the Immunize LA Families Coalition and past president and current director of the California Immunization Coalition — which worked with Vaccinate California to secure the passing of SB 277 that removed the religious vaccine exemption for children.
   
   According to Dollars for Docs and Open Payments, Brooks received thousands of dollars as a consultant and promotional speaker for vaccines prior to joining the CDC’s “independent” committee of vaccine advisors.
   
   Brooks received payments from Sanofi Pasteur, Inc. for Pentacel (DTaP-IPV/Hib 5-in-1 vaccine), Menactra (meningococcal conjugate vaccine), and influenza vaccines (Flublok Quadrivalent and high-dose Fluzone), GlaxoSmithKline for SHINGRIX (shingles), Merck for Gardasil and RotaTeq, Adacel for its Tdap vaccine and PREVNAR 13, manufactured by Pfizer.
   

4. Dr. Wilbur Chen is a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of the University of Maryland Baltimore Travel Medicine Practice. Chen is also an investigator within the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit and Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers, both of which are funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) run by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
   
   The University of Maryland has received millions of dollars in grants from the NIAID and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The university’s “Prevention Research Center” (PRC) is one of 26 PRCs funded by the CDC’s 2019–2024 funding cycle.
   
   According to the CDC, in April 2021, the agency funded all 26 PRCs to form the PRC Vaccine Confidence Network (VCN) to support the agency’s vaccine strategy for COVID-19. [MORE]