Study shows how toxic RFK Jr.’s change to measles vaccine is for US toddlers
摘要
一项研究显示，美国卫生部长肯尼迪任命的顾问委员会在缺乏新数据与明确理由的情况下，投票取消对麻疹、腮腺炎、风疹和水痘联合疫苗（MMRV）的联邦推荐。独立研究分析指出，该决定未采用标准评估框架，忽视了对儿童实际影响的全面考量，导致私人保险不再强制覆盖该疫苗，且低收入家庭儿童依赖的联邦疫苗计划也将无法提供此疫苗，对弱势幼儿群体造成显著危害。
With no new data or clear reasoning, a panel of advisors hand-selected by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted last September to strip federal recommendations for a combination shot against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chickenpox). An analysis published today by independent researchers does the work the advisors neglected to do before the vote and, in turn, shows how harmful the decision is to vulnerable US toddlers.
The decision last fall followed clumsy discussion by Kennedy's dubiously qualified advisors, who make up the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most noticeably, their unprompted review of the MMRV vaccine did not include a standard decision-making framework ACIP has historically used to comprehensively evaluate what the change would mean for US children in practice—including basic questions, such as which children would be affected.
Still, the decision meant that private health insurance providers would no longer be required to cover the vaccine, called MMRV. It also meant the shot would no longer be available through a federal program that provides vaccines to about half of American children, mostly from low-income families.
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