(The Epoch Times)—A committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is going to review various aspects of COVID-19 vaccines, including concerns about the persistence of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), according to a new document.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) work group on COVID-19 vaccines will review data on the shots related to their safety, effectiveness, and immunogenicity, according to the Aug. 20 document, which was released by the CDC.
Members also plan to look at gaps in existing knowledge “relating to bio distribution, pharmacokinetics, and persistence of the spike protein, mRNA, and lipid nanoparticles to inform immunization recommendations,” the document states.
Studies have found that the spike protein and mRNA in the vaccines persist for some time. Lipid nanoparticles are used to deliver the mRNA.
Other areas of focus for the group include potential impurities such as contamination by DNA, the impact of repeated booster doses on immune systems, how both COVID-19 vaccines and COVID-19 have affected all-cause deaths and hospitalizations, and serious adverse events potentially caused by the vaccines.
After reviewing the data and consulting with experts at the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration, and outside the government, the group plans on issuing new recommendations regarding the shots.
Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named chair of the work group.
“My goal as the WG [work group] chair is to work with my colleagues at ACIP, the CDC and FDA experts and the external experts to openly study the range of issues and questions outlined in the Terms of Reference, to inform the best science and evidence-based policy recommendations, and having the health and safety of patients front in mind,” Levi told The Epoch Times in an email.
Levi has previously called for halting the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, citing concerns with safety and effectiveness.
Pfizer and Moderna have not responded to requests for comment.
The CDC says on its website that the COVID-19 vaccination “helps protect you from severe illness, hospitalization, and death.” It has acknowledged some side effects, including heart inflammation.
Under orders from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC earlier this year stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccination for healthy children and pregnant women.
Kennedy subsequently removed all members of ACIP and appointed Levi and others to replace them.
The CDC had for years recommended that all people aged 6 months and older receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
The previous advisory panel had been considering recommending the CDC shift to a non-universal recommendation.
ACIP member Dr. Robert Malone, who is serving on the COVID-19 vaccine work group, said on his blog that establishing topics for the group to review was a sign of progress.
“I am sorry it is so slow (and frustrating for all concerned), but we now have the authorization to look deeply into the big questions,” he wrote.
“Hopefully, we will have some answers by the upcoming ACIP general meeting.”
The next ACIP meeting is slated to take place in August or September, according to the committee’s website. Another meeting is due to take place on Oct. 22 and Oct. 23.
ACIP member Dr. James Pagano will also serve on the working group.
Other members of the group have not been disclosed, and Levi declined to name them.
The document says the group “is composed of experts who are appointed based on their professional, scientific, technical, or other expertise.”
CDC employees will no longer be able to serve as members, according to the document, although they can still present to the panel, which meets behind closed doors.
At long last, goodbye “Clot Shot” jabs!!!
Hopefully the Pharma companies will be penalized and fined.
Also looking for immunity waiver to be lifted and made void…
For years I was a vaccine advocate. I reprimanded those who eschewed the flu shot. Then I got the covid 19 vaccine. It made me sick. I denied it was the cause. All my doctors denied it was the cause but had no explanation for the continuing numb and tinglies and I believed them. So 3 months later I got the 2nd dose. This time the numb and tingly feet, hands, nose, teeth, stomach came back tremendously worse and correlated so perfectly with the shot that it was undeniably the cause. I got sicker and sicker. Heart attack a couple months later, then cancer. Today my feet still hurt, my fingers too. The adverse symptoms come back every month or two as if I just had another shot.
Today I wouldn’t take the rabies vaccine if I was bitten by the rabid dog Atticus shot.
If we are waiting for any republican to do something that requires bravery, forget it
they are cowards and will do nothing.
The mrna crap is/was bad. the inventor said so long ago but the republicans let it go on.
Thanks for the laugh…. On day one……. was a bust. Trump has been a huge disappointment. “I’m getting the US out of Syria” that was one of Trump first term jokes. Trump getting the peace prize is another joke and they should never give that prize to a pedo.
correction they should never give the peace prize to a war mongering pedo….