The assessment of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) could lead to the childhood vaccine schedule being altered.
By Catholics for Catholics
A specialized advice-giving team chosen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is going to take a harder look at vaccines geared toward children, including if a frequently administered one is benign.
According to The Epoch Times, a workgroup of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which counsels the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will examine the well-being of aluminum and other ingredients included in various different vaccines, according to a document, which was dated Oct. 8.
“For example, do either of the two different aluminum adjuvants increase the risk of asthma?” the document states.
The report indicates that aluminum salts are part of at least some vaccines against Hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, pneumococcal disease, meningococcal disease, haemophilus influenzae type b bacterium, human papillomavirus virus, hepatitis A and polio. Since the 1930s they have served as adjuvants, or substances used to boost the immune response in recipients.
Researchers with the CDC and other organizations found a link between receipt of vaccines with aluminum and asthma in young children, according to a 2022 paper. “CDC is not changing vaccine recommendations based on this single study, but further investigation is needed into this potential safety signal,” the agency states on its website. It also adds that “following the recommended vaccine schedule provides children and teens with the best protection from potentially serious diseases.”
After the report was published, Kennedy said the study “hints at one of the catastrophic side effects of childhood jabs—the asthma epidemic.”
President Donald Trump said in a September briefing that parents should take their children to receive vaccines across multiple visits. He also said, “We have already taken out and are in the process of taking that mercury and aluminum.”
According to The Times, Danish researchers said recently in a study that they found no links between aluminum exposure and 50 disorders, although updated supplementary material did indicate a higher risk of Asperger’s syndrome with increased exposure. Kennedy called for the journal that published the study, which he said was “badly flawed,” to retract it—a call that was rejected.
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