{"id":2445069,"date":"2025-06-09T20:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vaccine-committee-dismissed-by-hhs-had-ties-to-big-pharma\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:50:05","slug":"vaccine-committee-dismissed-by-hhs-had-ties-to-big-pharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vaccine-committee-dismissed-by-hhs-had-ties-to-big-pharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine Committee Dismissed By HHS Had Ties To Big Pharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvaccine-committee-dismissed-by-hhs-had-ties-to-big-pharma%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2445069&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced the termination of all voting members from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP),which has been criticized for conflicts of interest and a lack of clarity,especially concerning its ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/moderna-ceo-were-going-to-need-boosters-in-the-fall-of-22-and-forward\/\" title=\"Moderna CEO: \u2018We\u2019re Going To Need Boosters In The Fall Of \u201922 And Forward\u2019\">major pharmaceutical companies<\/a>. Secretary robert F. Kennedy Jr. emphasized the need to restore public trust in vaccine recommendations by ensuring that decisions are driven by unbiased science and free from conflicts. HHS plans to rebuild ACIP with the aim of prioritizing public health and evidence-based practices moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>The article profiles several former ACIP members,highlighting thier previous decisions on vaccine recommendations and their financial ties to pharmaceutical companies. Key figures such as Helen K. Talbot, Charlotte A. Moser, and Edwin jose Asturias, among others, are noted for their controversial votes in favor of booster shots without adequate supporting data, as well as for receiving consulting fees from big pharmaceutical companies. The article concludes with a call for more transparency and accountability in public health recommendations,specifically regarding vaccines.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just dismissed <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250609202847\/https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/acip\/membership\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">every voting member<\/a> from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group made up entirely of Biden appointees, many of whom have seemingly major conflicts of interest because of ties to large pharmaceutical corporations and histories of donating to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>ACIP, an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has a history of rubber-stamping everything it comes across, with some members even voting in favor of major changes like recommending that children ages 5 to 11 receive a coronavirus &ldquo;vaccine&rdquo; booster shot without any data to support that intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Other members have taken consulting fees and related payments from Big Pharma, donated to far-left Democrats, and appear to look uncritically at any item regarding vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today we are prioritizing the restoration of public trust above any specific pro- or anti-vaccine agenda,&rdquo;&nbsp;Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/press-room\/hhs-restore-public-trust-vaccines-acip.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>. &ldquo;The public must know that unbiased science &mdash; evaluated through a transparent process and insulated from conflicts of interest &mdash; guides the recommendations of our health agencies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;ACIP&rsquo;s new members will prioritize public health and evidence-based medicine. The Committee will no longer function as a rubber stamp for industry profit-taking agendas. The entire world once looked to American health regulators for guidance, inspiration, scientific impartiality, and unimpeachable integrity. Public trust has eroded. Only through radical transparency and gold standard science, will we earn it back.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>HHS plans to rebuild the advisory committee from scratch.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Helen K. Talbot, MD, MPH<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Talbot, who became chair on March 5, 2024 (and served on the committee from 2018 to 2023), voted in favor of recommending that Americans between the ages of 18 and 64 receive a third <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hes-as-unifying-as-a-table-saw-greg-gutfeld-says-bidens-keeping-antibody-treatment-from-florida-for-political-reasons\/\" title=\"\u2018He\u2019s As Unifying As A Table Saw\u2019: Greg Gutfeld Says Biden\u2019s Keeping Antibody Treatment From Florida For Political Reasons\">coronavirus vaccine booster<\/a> from Pfizer despite one of her colleagues at the time, Dr. Paul Offit, saying that &ldquo;there was not much data about booster shots,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/09\/23\/covid19-vaccine-boosters-cdc-acip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to STAT News.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the lack of data during the 2021 vote, Talbot urged ACIP members to vote in favor of the recommendation,  yet said that boosting vaccinated people was like &ldquo;putting lipstick on frogs,&rdquo; adding, &ldquo;This is not going to solve the pandemic.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>By 2023, Talbot voted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/infectious-disease\/20230912\/cdc-recommends-updated-covid19-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recommend<\/a> updated coronavirus vaccines to those aged six months and older.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, while a voting member of ACIP, Talbot received <a href=\"https:\/\/openpaymentsdata.cms.gov\/physician\/59189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consulting fees<\/a> from Sanofi Pasteur, a French pharmaceutical division specializing in vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Before Monday&rsquo;s actions, Talbot&rsquo;s term was supposed to end in June 2025.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Charlotte A. Moser, MS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Moser is perhaps the most openly tyrannical of the committee members.<\/p>\n<p>She is co-director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children&rsquo;s Hospital of Philadelphia and developed a program called Parents Possessing, Accessing, and Communicating Knowledge (PACK), which comes with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chop.edu\/parents-pack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free application<\/a> to &ldquo;access to accurate vaccine info wherever and whenever you need it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, a feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chop.edu\/parents-pack\/parents-pack-newsletter\/what-we-know-and-how-we-feel-can-you-recognize-difference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> from PACK went through an exercise in what was true or false about vaccines based on &ldquo;knowledge (<em>what we know<\/em>), feelings (<em>what we feel<\/em>) and misinformation.&rdquo; The newsletter claimed that not giving a newborn the Hepatitis B vaccine was based on &ldquo;feelings,&rdquo; and that giving the vaccine was &ldquo;based on science.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Moser wrote an article with Offit <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.aap.org\/pediatrics\/article-abstract\/123\/1\/e164\/71978\/The-Problem-With-Dr-Bob-s-Alternative-Vaccine?redirectedFrom=fulltext?autologincheck=redirected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticizing<\/a> a vaccine approach from Dr. Robert Sears that encouraged parents to space out giving vaccines to their children.<\/p>\n<p>She co-authored another <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26479572\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> claiming there are high costs to society from those who do not want to be vaccinated, calling the decision &ldquo;negligent.&rdquo; The article examined &ldquo;legal tools for imposing costs&rdquo; like a &ldquo;coercive mechanism&rdquo; through &ldquo;the use of criminal law,&rdquo; concluding that the &ldquo;possibility of imposing costs through criminal law liability is a subject that deserves its own treatment&rdquo; in future studies.<\/p>\n<p>She and the other authors also advocated imposing vaccine mandates for accessing &ldquo;parks, pools and water parks, government buildings, theaters, sporting venues, shopping centers, and other public accommodations.&rdquo; Additionally, they discussed allowing the non-vaccinated to be sued in civil court and favored implementing &ldquo;a no-fault approach that seeks to force every person who opts out to internalize the cost of the failure to vaccinate so that the one who incurs the cost is the one who bears it&rdquo; through the use of a tax, fee, an increase in premium or other cost. <\/p>\n<p>The paper likewise explored the idea of modifying Obamacare to increase premiums on unvaccinated and billing unvaccinated persons known to have caused a disease outbreak, and explicitly recommended the creation of a &ldquo;mechanism for recouping the costs of outbreak caused by non-vaccinating.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Moser&rsquo;s term was set to expire in June of 2028.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Edwin Jose Asturias, MD<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>From 2017 through 2023 &mdash; the latest data available on the OpenPaymentsData.CMS.gov website &mdash; Asturias <a href=\"https:\/\/openpaymentsdata.cms.gov\/physician\/571056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received<\/a> tens of thousands in consulting fees and reimbursements for travel and lodging expenses and food and beverage costs from Merck, Pfizer, and Sanofi, all three of which are major pharmaceutical companies and vaccine manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>In his most lucrative year, 2019, Asturias gained a total of $23,313.34 in consulting and related payments, receiving $14,942.97 from Pfizer and $8,341.38 from Merck.<\/p>\n<p>Asturias&rsquo;s term was set to expire in June 2028.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Noel T. Brewer, PhD<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Brewer is also well connected to Big Pharma, having <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC5192091\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received grants<\/a> and\/or served on paid boards at Pfizer, Merck, and GSK, a British pharmaceutical company formerly known as GlaxoSmithKline, according to personal disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>Brewer is also a Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=noel+brewer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">donor<\/a>, having given $1,000 to Joe Biden and $200 to North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, who narrowly lost to Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Brewer&rsquo;s term was set to expire in June 2028.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Oliver Brooks, MD, FAAP<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In 2022, Brooks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/why-america-doesnt-trust-cdc-opinion-1713145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted to recommend<\/a> that children aged 5 to 11 receive coronavirus vaccine booster shots despite there being no data on outcomes. The committee granted approval largely on the basis of a small Pfizer study of 140 children showing simply that their antibody levels had increased &mdash; something &ldquo;known to be transitory.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Brooks has <a href=\"https:\/\/openpaymentsdata.cms.gov\/physician\/227046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received<\/a> tens of thousands in consulting fees and related payments, primarily from Sanofi Pasteur, from 2017 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The ACIP member has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=Oliver+Brooks+&amp;cycle=&amp;state=CA&amp;zip=&amp;employ=&amp;occupation=&amp;jurisdiction=&amp;cand=&amp;type=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long history<\/a> of giving money to far-left Democrats, including current Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass when she was running for U.S. Congress. He also donated to Kamala Harris when she was running for Senate and far-left Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks&rsquo;s term was set to expire in June 2025.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Lin H. Chen, MD, FACP, FASTMH, FISTM<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Before her appointment to ACIP by Biden in 2024, Chen <a href=\"https:\/\/openpaymentsdata.cms.gov\/physician\/1026770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received thousands<\/a> in payments from Merck, Sanofi Pasteur, and French vaccine company Valneva from 2017 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Moderna has also <a href=\"https:\/\/openpaymentsdata.cms.gov\/hospital\/220002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">given<\/a> Mount Auburn Hospital nearly $250,000 during Chen&rsquo;s tenure as director of its Travel Medicine Center.<\/p>\n<p>Her term was set to expire in June 2028.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Helen Y. Chu, MD, MPH, FIDSA<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>While conducting a study on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-surgeon-general-calling-for-censorship-yet-again\/\" title=\"U.S. Surgeon General Calling for Censorship Yet Again\">coronavirus vaccine efficacy<\/a>, Chu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2024.11.01.24316597v2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disclosed<\/a> &ldquo;receiving personal fees from AbbVie, Vindico, Ellume, Medscape, Merck, Clinical Care Options, Cataylst Medical Education, Vir, Pfizer, and Prime Education.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In addition she has received &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/wmc.wa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/public\/slides\/LongCOVID_Slides.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">research support<\/a> from Gates Ventures, NIH, CDC, Gates Foundation, DARPA, Sanofi-Pasteur, Cepheid and serves on advisory boards for Abbvie, Merck, Pfizer, Ellume, and the Gates Foundation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She also <a href=\"https:\/\/openpaymentsdata.cms.gov\/physician\/760992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received thousands<\/a> in consulting fees from Merck and Abbvie from 2019 to 2023 and <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalrepository.unm.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1652&amp;context=peds_pubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has been <\/a>a &ldquo;co-investigator on studies funded by Pfizer, Novavax, and GSK.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Sybil Cineas, MD, FAAP, FACP<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In 2022, Cineas voted to recommend Moderna&rsquo;s coronavirus vaccine booster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/11\/health\/moderna-bivalent-transparency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">without having<\/a> the company&rsquo;s full data on the shot.<\/p>\n<p>Cineas has also taken multiple steps to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology, including signing an <a href=\"https:\/\/fordr-dennar.medium.com\/faculty-leadership-letter-of-support-for-dr-princess-dennar-eb9bf9cf90ea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">open letter<\/a> claiming the medical profession has a &ldquo;pervasive culture of White Supremacy.&rdquo; The letter also stated that &ldquo;we have thus lost our confidence in the ability of current systems and power structures to support and protect trainees and faculty other than those who identify as White cis-gender men.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Serving as a professor at Brown University&rsquo;s Warren Alpert Medical School, Cineas helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acgme.org\/globalassets\/pdfs\/aec\/2024acgmeannualeducationalconferenceabstracts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">creat<\/a> a &ldquo;two-year program for medical residents&rdquo; that had &ldquo;didactic sessions using art to teach skills of observation, communication, and bias,&rdquo; noting in the conclusions section that &ldquo;open-ended survey questions are undergoing qualitative analysis and have thus far noted themes, including: how to embrace ambiguity; recognizing\/acknowledging our implicit biases; intentionality in word choice; and how to practice mindfulness.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Further stressing her DEI bona fides, Cineas <a href=\"https:\/\/diversity.biomed.brown.edu\/about\/people-contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">serves<\/a> on an advisory council to Brown&rsquo;s Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Cineas&rsquo;s term was set to expire in June 2025.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Denise J. Jamieson, MD, MPH<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Jamieson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/delivering-care\/public-health\/denise-jamieson-md-mph-covid-19-vaccines-during-pregnancy#:~:text=That%20particular%20one.-,Dr.,vaccine%20are%20safe%20and%20effective.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> as early as the spring of 2021 that vaccines were &ldquo;safe and effective&rdquo; for pregnant women, despite the fact that Pfizer&rsquo;s own data showed <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/09\/8-bombshell-findings-in-floridas-grand-jury-report-on-big-pharmas-covid-shots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">serious risk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/18\/kansas-ag-sues-pfizer-for-falsely-representing-and-suppressing-the-truth-about-its-covid-jab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for pregnant women<\/a>. Jamieson also used the term &ldquo;pregnant persons,&rdquo; a far-left term implying that men can become pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, she is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), which is not only a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/28\/american-college-of-ob-gyns-bans-pro-life-doctors-from-conference-after-they-show-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >major pro-abortion advocacy organization<\/a><\/a>, but was also reportedly paid $11 million by the CDC to promote coronavirus vaccines as &ldquo;safe and effective&rdquo; for pregnant women. Jamieson was a member of ACOG&rsquo;s Practice Advisory on COVID-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, while Jamieson was a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/national-academy-of-medicine\/summary?topnumcycle=2024&amp;contribcycle=2024&amp;lobcycle=2024&amp;outspendcycle=2024&amp;id=D000092009&amp;toprecipcycle=2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">donated<\/a> $150,000 to the Democratic National Committee, over $6,000 to Biden, and thousands to other candidates.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>George Kuchel, MD, CM, FRCP, AGSF, FGSA, FAAAS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Kuchel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/news\/local\/ct-doctor-discusses-vaccines-to-fight-rsv\/3035527\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> that the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine was &ldquo;transformational&rdquo; and that there was &ldquo;no evidence of any kind that vaccines having a negative effect on fetuses or children in that context&rdquo; before the FDA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/vaccines-blood-biologics\/safety-availability-biologics\/fda-requires-guillain-barre-syndrome-gbs-warning-prescribing-information-rsv-vaccines-abrysvo-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">required<\/a> the addition of a warning label because some recipients developed Guillain-Barr&eacute; syndrome (GBS).<\/p>\n<p>Kuchel also received more than $1,000 from Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company (most well known for Ozempic,&nbsp;Rybelsus,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Wegovy), as well as thousands from Janssen Global Services, a subsidiary of Johnson &amp; Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>His term was set to expire in June of 2028.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Jamie Loehr, MD, FAAFP<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Loehr wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32718440\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paper<\/a> stating that &ldquo;structural changes, such as removing personal and religious exemptions for vaccines required for attending school, are effective tools in increasing vaccination rates.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aafp.org\/pubs\/afp\/issues\/2016\/0715\/p94.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote separately<\/a> citing positively the American Academy of Family Physicians&rsquo; position opposing vaccine exemptions, encouraging doctors to pressure for vaccinations and to &ldquo;fight another day&rdquo; if &ldquo;despite all your best efforts, a small percentage of patients will refuse one or more vaccines.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The article essentially advocates for every child to receive every single vaccine on the schedule no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2025 ACIP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biopharmadive.com\/news\/cdc-acip-meeting-covid-vaccine-measles\/745451\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meeting<\/a>, Loehr said he favors a risk-based change to the coronavirus vaccine recommendation (that they should be favored for some groups and not others), but stated he was worried that it might send the wrong message, claiming, &ldquo;COVID-19 is still a fairly dangerous disease and very, very common.&nbsp;We&rsquo;re not talking about 10 cases of mpox [monkeypox].&nbsp;We&rsquo;re talking about thousands of hospitalizations and deaths.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His term was set to expire in June 2025.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Karyn Lyons, MS, RN<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Lyons was serving as the Immunization Section Chief at the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), when the organization successfully got Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., to sign an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.illinois.gov\/government\/executive-orders\/executive-order.executive-order-number-20.2021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive order<\/a> requiring all individuals over the age of two to wear face masks, including those already vaccinated. It also required all health care workers, school teachers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-state-pension-system-loses-money-due-to-ftx-bankruptcy\/\" title=\"Missouri State Pension System Loses Money Due to FTX Bankruptcy\">higher education staff<\/a>, and students to receive the coronavirus vaccine or undergo regular testing.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado, MD<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Prior to her appointment by the Biden administration, Maldonado &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/acip\/disclosures\/by-member.html#:~:text=ACIP%20members%20are%20required%20to,the%20work%20of%20the%20ACIP.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">served<\/a> as Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) for Pfizer meningococcal vaccine trials and as a site [principal investigator] for Pfizer pediatric COVID-19 and maternal RSV vaccines and AstraZenaca varicella zoster vaccine trials.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Between 2017 and 2023, she <a href=\"https:\/\/openpaymentsdata.cms.gov\/physician\/112408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received<\/a> thousands in consulting fees from Pfizer and Merck.<\/p>\n<p>She has also <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/facultydevelopment\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">served<\/a> as Stanford&rsquo;s senior associate dean of Faculty Development and Diversity since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Her term was set to expire in June 2027.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Robert Schechter, MD, MSc<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Schechter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/programs\/cid\/dcdc\/cdph%20document%20library\/covid-19\/meetingsummary113020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">urged<\/a> California to &ldquo;prioritiz[e] who receives the vaccine first through a racial equity lens,&rdquo; noting that &ldquo;we have the opportunity to center BIPOC in the decision making process&rdquo; in the coronavirus vaccine rollout. &ldquo;Our agricultural workers are predominantly Latinx,&rdquo; Schechter added. &ldquo;They are also tripled and quadrupled up in their living quarters.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>His term was set to expire in June 2027.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Albert C. Shaw, MD, PhD, FIDSA<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Shaw is a member of the Yale <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/internal-medicine\/infdis\/dei\/id2ea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Infectious Disease Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism Committee<\/a>. He was also involved in implementing curriculum at the university&rsquo;s medical school that primarily <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37078888\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">focused<\/a> on &ldquo;integrating Infectious Disease Diversity, Equity, and Antiracism (ID2EA) into ID educational training.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to being appointed by the Biden administration, he received thousands from GSK and Boehringer Ingelheim.<\/p>\n<p>His term was set to expire in June 2027.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Mini Kamboj, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Kamboj supported a 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mini_kamboj\/status\/1385972576384651264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">petition<\/a> advocating that the United States pay for free coronavirus vaccines to India.<\/p>\n<p>Her term was set to expire in June 2028.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Jane R. Zucker, MD, MSc, FIDSA<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Zucker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immunizationmanagers.org\/about-aim\/leadership-staff\/legacy-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">listed<\/a> New York City&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/10\/heck-no-andrew-cuomo-you-dont-get-to-pull-the-cancel-culture-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disastrous<\/a> Covid-19 response as one of her &ldquo;greatest accomplishments.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Breccan F. Thies is a correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. 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