Yesterday, the CDC advisory panel that recommends vaccine policy for Americans voted against recommending access to one safe, effective vaccine for young children. They are planning to take more votes, where they might recommend limiting other childhood vaccines. We’re on the precipice of a public health disaster.
Here’s how we got here: Over the summer, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. purged trusted experts from the advisory panel. In their place, he appointed vaccine critics and proponents of conspiratorial and unproven medical interventions.
And this new anti-vaccine advisory panel is doing exactly what Kennedy wanted all along: They’re paving the way to make it harder for Americans to get the vaccines we need to keep our families, and our communities, safe.
John, this is exactly what you get when you appoint an anti-vax conspiracy theorist to lead our nation’s health policy. We’re facing a critical juncture for public health, and we need to speak out. Will you add your name here to call on the vaccine advisory panel to follow the science and protect Americans’ access to vaccines?
Attacks on vaccination are opening the door for dangerous diseases to return. Measles. Diphtheria. Polio. Generations of Americans experienced first hand the suffering they caused — but thanks to the miracle of vaccination, we have been spared seeing the consequences of those infectious diseases.
Our leaders are supposed to protect this country. That means protecting public health. Instead, our Health Secretary and his anti-vaccine allies are endangering American lives.
We have to unite against this threat to our country. Join Roy Cooper and sign our petition demanding the vaccine panel protect vaccine access >>>
Thank you for taking action,
Team Cooper
