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Also missing are guidelines on #contraception & the diagnosis and prevention of #HIV & sexually transmitted infections, as well as #vaccine info sheets that doctors typically give to patients receiving the shots.

On Sat night, 9 members of a congressionally chartered cmte of #medical experts, the advisory cmte to the #CDC director, wrote a joint letter pressing the agency’s acting dir, Susan Monarez, to explain by Fri why the CDC had stripped its website of the info & to meet w/them asap.

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Sen #ElizabethWarren, Democrat of Massachusetts gets #RFKJr to say he will not take money from the drug industry. He pledges not to. Then she turned to his affiliation with a law firm that is suing Merck over its human papillomavirus #HPV #vaccine. Kennedy has said he is entitled to a 10% fee from that ongoing lawsuit; on his financial disclosure forms he said he would continue to receive those fees as secretary. [see #GiftArticle earlier in 🧵]

#law#USpol#HHS
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#RFKJr sought to pre-empt criticism of his #vaccine views, insisting he is not #AntiVaccine. An extensive review of Kennedy’s public comments by The Washington Post found he repeatedly disparaged #vaccines & falsely linked them to autism. He founded Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group.

#law #USpol #PublicHealth

#GiftArticle:
wapo.st/42zOOkt

The Washington Post · RFK Jr. disparaged vaccines dozens of times in recent years and made baseless claims on raceBy Lauren Weber
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…Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, said #RFKJr’s finances showed “outrageous conflicts of interest that endanger #PublicHealth.”

“This disclosure shows that RFK Jr. made millions off of peddling dangerous #AntiVaccine #conspiracies,” she said in a statement. “Even worse, if he is confirmed, his finances will still be tied to the outcomes of anti-#vaccine lawsuits — even as he’d be tasked with regulating them as #health secretary.”

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The arrangement w/Wisner Baum, which also includes other matters, has earned #RFKJr, one of the nation’s fiercest #vaccine critics, >$2.5M in the past 2 years, acc/to records filed w/federal election ofcls for his presidential run & the agreement, approved by the Office of Govt #Ethics as part of the confirmation process. That sum is far higher than about $200,000, the latest salary figure for the #Health & Human Services secretary….