Thread by @MaryanneDemasi

💥BREAKING: ACIP launches sweeping Covid-19 vaccine review under Retsef Levi
Billions of Covid vaccine doses were rolled out on assurances they were safe and effective. Now, ACIP’s new Covid immunisation working group is asking the questions regulators never did. 👇👇

@RetsefL @FLSurgeonGen @TheChiefNerd @newstart_2024 @Jikkyleaks

MIT professor @RetsefL has been an outspoken voice on the @CDCgov's vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) since @SecKennedy's dramatic overhaul in June.

Levi has pressed CDC officials on uncomfortable questions, challenging the narrow surveillance windows used to track harms and insisting that delayed effects could not simply be ruled out.

He also raised concerns about the safety of RSV monoclonal antibodies after clinical trials showed a clear imbalance in infant deaths.

Now, @RetsefL has been appointed chair of the @CDCgov's new Covid-19 vaccine working group, and with today’s release of its Terms of Reference, the scale of his task has come into sharp focus.

Under the guidance of Levi and his colleagues, the ACIP working group now has a mandate unlike anything the committee has ever undertaken.

For the first time, federal advisers will investigate the unresolved issues that have dogged the vaccines since their rushed rollout in late 2020.

The new working group, involving @RWMaloneMD, will assess everything from DNA contamination in the products, to the persistence of spike protein & mRNA in the body, from immune class switching following repeated boosting to safety in pregnancy, cardiovascular risks, and long-term disability, the list of questions is as sweeping as it is sensitive.
blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/breaking-aci…

The stakes could not be higher. Covid-19 vaccines remain one of the most divisive issues in medicine, and the CDC’s credibility has been battered by accusations of selective data presentation.

Only this week, experts accused the agency of obscuring seizure risks from RSV monoclonal antibodies by slicing the data into subgroups that hid a statistically significant signal. blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/exclusive-di…

The creation of a Covid-19 working group will be more than bureaucratic housekeeping—it is a test of whether ACIP can restore the public’s trust by confronting uncomfortable truths.

How this will play out is uncertain? See my exclusive interview with chair, @RetsefL 👇
@VigilantFoxblog.maryannedemasi.com/p/breaking-aci…

Will the new working group gather research & assess long-term harms of the Covid-19 vaccines?

@React19org @BrianneDressen

Are the Covid-19 vaccines safe in pregnancy?

What will you be seeking to investigate the issue of DNA contamination in the covid-19 injections?

@Kevin_McKernan @DJSpeicher @JesslovesMJK
@Double_Christ

Would you consider Covid-19 injections to be "gene therapies" ?

@JesslovesMJK @Kevin_McKernan @RWMaloneMD

For years, critics who raised concerns about DNA contamination, biodistribution, immune imprinting, or reproductive safety were dismissed as “alarmists” and spreaders of “misinformation.” Now, the @CDCgov own advisory body has committed to revisiting each of those questions in detail.

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