Today and tomorrow’s ACIP meeting
Ugh
I have been promised the quality of CHD’s livestream will be much better tomorrow. Here is the link for the 8am-1 pm (but it might run late) ACIP meeting tomorrow.
Today was one of the worst meetings in memory, even more sanitized information than usual, unbelievable assertions, no meaningful data provided that one could use to make independent assessments of any of the truly incredible claims of safety. Terrible video which kept jumping between slides and presenters, making it impossible to scrutinize the slides in real time. Best data to show efficacy (like RSV deaths in infants before and after the RSV vaccine was approved and nirsevimab was approved—for the whole country (CDC has this), or even data utilizing the entirety of the VSD, were of course MIA. Methods were brushed over so they were difficult to criticize in a granular way. Was this all planned to make it impossible to find kernels of truth? Probably.
CDC has always been the queen of the data cherrypickers.
Presenters simply read from their briefing books, and blew off every meaningful question. I wonder if the new ACIP members have any idea what they have waded into? Will they be snookered or not? They have not seen earlier meetings and so they don’t know what is being hidden from them, I suspect.
I found it unbelievable that almost no mention was made of the new monoclonal for newborns, and yet the committee is supposed to vote on rolling it out. WTF?
Here is the link for tomorrow. Once you get there, you have to click the “Live Blog” button to see what I am writing.
I think RFK may need to essentially shut down the CDC if this is what they are going to do with their billions for epidemiology.