Rfk Jr To Require All New Vaccines To Undergo Placebo Testing

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is requiring each caller vaccines to acquisition placebo-controlled tests successful a argumentation alteration nan agency described arsenic a "radical departure from past practices."

"Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, each caller vaccines will acquisition information testing successful placebo-controlled tests anterior to licensure — a extremist departure from past practices," an HHS spokesperson said to Fox News Digital connected Thursday.

HHS suggested that childhood-recommended vaccines listed nether nan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, for instance, should beryllium tested.

"Except for nan COVID vaccine, nary of nan vaccines connected nan CDC’s puerility recommended schedule was tested against an inert placebo, meaning we cognize very small astir nan existent consequence profiles of these products," nan HHS spokesperson said.

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RFK Jr. is requiring each caller vaccines to acquisition placebo-controlled trials. (Nicole Hester / The Tennessean / USA Today Network)

Placebo testing, which involves volunteers receiving dummy injections specified arsenic saline shots, is already a communal believe for caller pathogens. Updated versions of proven protective immunizations, however, often do not acquisition caller placebo tests and are alternatively tested against existing vaccines.

Some health experts person raised concerns astir conducting placebo trials, arguing that specified tests could expose group to illnesses that different could person been prevented.

"Vaccine proceedings creation tin raise challenging ethical questions, particularly regarding nan usage of placebo controls erstwhile an useful vaccine exists," a 2014 World Health Organization report published connected nan National Institutes of Health's website says.

The risks of utilizing a placebo power whitethorn beryllium ethically justified moreover erstwhile an useful vaccine exists if nan proceedings is "in settings wherever vaccine supplies are limited, wherever vaccines stay investigational and/or wherever nationalist wellness recommendations for usage of these vaccines person not been made," according to an article from nan European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, besides connected nan NIH website, citing a proceedings from a pharmaceutical company.

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A man receives his first dose of nan Pfizer vaccine connected Aug. 25, 2021. (Jon Austria/The Coloradoan / USA Today Network)

HHS besides claimed that nan CDC has not been monitoring vaccine complications adequately, and criticized its existent surveillance system.

"The CDC’s erstwhile believe of suppressing accusation astir vaccine injuries has severely eroded spot successful our nationalist wellness agencies," nan agency said. 

"The CDC’s ain investigation has shown that nan post-licensure surveillance system, VAERS, captures less than 1% of vaccine injuries," nan HHS spokesperson said. "It’s a strategy that was designed to fail. The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) — intended arsenic a backup to VAERS — is virtually unusable for superior research. Both systems person go templates of regulatory malpractice."

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is seen successful Washington, D.C., connected July 21, 2007. (Saul Leob/AFP)

Kennedy, who has many times said vaccines are not adequately tested for safety, is calling for greater transparency successful its testing and support process.

"Secretary Kennedy’s HHS has pledged extremist transparency to nan American public," nan spokesperson said. "This intends being honorable and straightforward astir what we cognize — and what we don’t cognize — astir aesculapian products, including vaccines."

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"HHS is now building surveillance systems that will accurately measurement vaccine risks arsenic good arsenic benefits — because existent subject demands some transparency and accountability," nan spokesperson added.