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 trials successful a argumentation alteration the bureau described arsenic a "radical departure from past practices."

"Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, each caller vaccines volition acquisition information investigating successful placebo-controlled trials 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 the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, for instance, should beryllium tested.

"Except for the COVID vaccine, nary of the vaccines connected the CDC’s puerility recommended docket was tested against an inert placebo, meaning we cognize precise small astir the existent hazard profiles of these products," the 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 signifier for caller pathogens. Updated versions of proven protective immunizations, however, often bash not acquisition caller placebo trials and are alternatively tested against existing vaccines.

Some wellness experts person raised concerns astir conducting placebo trials, arguing that specified tests could exposure radical to illnesses that different could person been prevented.

"Vaccine proceedings plan tin rise challenging ethical questions, particularly regarding the usage of placebo controls erstwhile an efficacious vaccine exists," a 2014 World Health Organization study published connected the National Institutes of Health's website says.

The risks of utilizing a placebo power whitethorn beryllium ethically justified adjacent erstwhile an efficacious vaccine exists if the 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 nonfiction from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, besides connected the NIH website, citing a proceedings from a pharmaceutical company.

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A antheral receives his archetypal dose of the Pfizer vaccine connected Aug. 25, 2021. (Jon Austria/The Coloradoan / USA Today Network)

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

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

"The CDC’s ain probe has shown that the post-licensure surveillance system, VAERS, captures less than 1% of vaccine injuries," the 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 gathering is seen successful Washington, D.C., connected July 21, 2007. (Saul Leob/AFP)

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

"Secretary Kennedy’s HHS has pledged extremist transparency to the American public," the spokesperson said. "This means 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 present gathering surveillance systems that volition accurately measurement vaccine risks arsenic good arsenic benefits — due to the fact that existent subject demands some transparency and accountability," the spokesperson added.