🚨ACIP launches sweeping Covid vaccine review under MIT’s Retsef Levi.
Billions of doses were rolled out under assurances they were safe and effective.
Now—for the first time—federal advisers will probe the questions regulators ignored.
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In a new interview with Maryanne Demasi, Levi laid out the agenda for ACIP’s new Covid working group.
He said the review will cover DNA contamination, spike protein persistence, immune class switching, pregnancy safety, cardiovascular risks, and long-term disability.
He explained that the vaccines don’t just stay in the arm and clear quickly.
People may produce very different amounts of spike protein, and evidence suggests it can persist more than 700 days.
Levi says ACIP must leave no stone unturned and rebuild trust by being honest about what we know—and what we don’t.
Obama ended the Presidential Fitness Test to spare kids from failure and embarrassment.
RFK Jr. says that’s a mistake—those experiences are essential for growth.
“Competition is part of life.”
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RFK Jr. joined Martha MacCallum to discuss bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test.
His uncle JFK originally championed the program to promote youth fitness nationwide.
“About a month before my uncle took the oath of office he was signaling to the country that physical fitness of Americans was going to be one of the primary priorities of his administration.”
“He watched what was happening, there was all kinds of studies that had come out at the time that showed that we were falling behind Europeans in terms of our physical fitness.”
“My uncle and my father believed strongly that American democracy and the taming of the American wilderness and the achievements of our country were related both to the physical strength and the moral strength of Americans.”
“We had this kind of beef jerky toughness.”
“So he launched the Presidential Council on Physical Fitness.”
“I was 10 years old at the time they launched it and I grew up with it in school.”
“We had to do push-ups, sit-ups, shuttle runs, one-mile run, and a bunch of other activities.”