{"id":9829,"date":"2025-07-02T15:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9829"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:50:52","slug":"in-surprise-move-rfk-jr-s-vaccine-committee-votes-to-recommend-rsv-shot-for-infants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/02\/in-surprise-move-rfk-jr-s-vaccine-committee-votes-to-recommend-rsv-shot-for-infants\/","title":{"rendered":"In surprise move, RFK Jr.&#8217;s vaccine committee votes to recommend RSV shot for infants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/06\/26\/rfk-jr-acip-vote-rsv-shot-babies\/84366939007\/\">USA Today<\/a> In their first vote since appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/06\/25\/rfk-acip-cdc-childhood-vaccines\/84352648007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"the eight members of a vaccine committee, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the eight members of a vaccine committee<\/a>&nbsp;voted to recommend a shot that protects infants against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clesrovimab, a monoclonal antibody created by pharmaceutical giant Merck, is recommended for use in infants younger than 8 months born during or entering their first RSV season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin Kulldorff, who led the meeting June 26, recently served as an expert witness for plaintiffs who accused Merck of concealing the risks of Gardasil, a vaccine used to prevent cancer from human papillomavirus, or HPV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/06\/26\/rfk-jr-acip-thimerosal-vaccine\/84368450007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"eight new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eight new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices<\/a>&nbsp;met for the first time June 25.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/06\/09\/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccine-advisory-panel-fired\/84121858007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Kennedy fired all 17 original members of the committee, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kennedy fired all 17 original members of the committee<\/a>&nbsp;on June 9 and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/06\/24\/rfk-jr-bill-cassidy-vaccine-committee-firings\/84331953007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"appointed its new members, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appointed its new members<\/a>&nbsp;a few days later. Given the inclusion of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/health-wellness\/2025\/04\/07\/rfk-jr-measles-vaccine-backlash\/82972685007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"vaccine skeptics, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vaccine skeptics<\/a>, the approval comes as a surprise to close watchers of the panel.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today In their first vote since appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary&nbsp;Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,&nbsp;the eight members of a vaccine committee&nbsp;voted to recommend a shot that protects infants against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Clesrovimab, a monoclonal antibody created by pharmaceutical giant Merck, is recommended for use in infants younger than 8 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9830,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions\/9830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}