UMN disease research center to launch vaccine integrity project

The University of Minnesota s Center for Infectious Illness Research and Framework is launching an initiative to examine how non-governmental entities can help protect vaccine program information and utilization in the U S Called the Vaccine Integrity Project the initiative s steering committee will gather feedback from professionals across the country during several sessions beginning this month and continuing into early August Sessions will include professional healthcare associations population physical condition organizations state community medical bureaucrats vaccine manufacturers medicinal and population medical academia vitality insurers healthcare systems pharmacies vitality media experts and policymakers Physical condition and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr AP Photo Jose Luis Magana People who care about preventing needless suffering and death from vaccination diseases have watched the current measles outbreak and Vitality Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr s rhetoric about vaccines with rising alarm revealed Dr Michael Osterholm regents professor and director of CIDRAP mentioned Wednesday Every day we seem to see new and disturbing developments occur around our vaccine enterprise There have been conversations happening for months now across the masses wellness area about what is it we can do with U S cabinet vaccine information becomes corrupted What will we do Or the system that helps to ensure their safety and efficacy are compromised Science-based information The steering committee is comprised of eight leading community soundness and program experts Steering committee members include co-chairs Dr Margaret Hamburg former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and co-president of the InterAcademy Partnership and Dr Harvey Fineberg president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and past president of the U S National Academy of Medicine then known as the Institute of Medicine This project acknowledges the unfortunate reality that the system that we ve relied on to make vaccine recommendations and to review safety and effectiveness material faces threats Osterholm noted in a announcement It is prudent to evaluate whether independent exercises may be needed to stand in its place and how non-governmental groups might operate to continue to provide science-based information to the American citizens The project is supported by a gift from Alumbra a foundation established by Christy Walton philanthropist and widow of John T Walton son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton Based on initial session feedback the initiative may develop a system of subject matter experts for vaccine evaluations and clinical guidelines expansion identify knowledge gaps and recommend studies to improve vaccine-related evidence practice and initiative and review cabinet decisions and messaging in order to provide clear evidence-based information according to a release on the project And I think the key thing is this should not be a us versus them Osterholm reported Ideally it would all be we re all working on this together But this is far too pivotal of an issue to leave it to the possibility that something might work Every day children are not being vaccinated They could and should be Every day we re seeing more cases of vaccine preventable diseases Every day we see a greater erosion of vaccine confidence occurring And so we do believe that all of them deserve comment They deserve a factual approach and we ll just continue to pursue that Sessions also will help develop scope membership criteria and other factors including priorities communication channels and triggers to begin or end such efforts CIDRAP will provide regular updates on the project once the sessions are completed A website on the initiative is also expected to be launched CIDRAP s mission is to prevent illness and death from targeted infectious illness threats through research and the translation of scientific evidence into real-world practical applications policies and solutions Efficacy of vaccines questioned by Kennedy Kennedy has questioned the safety monitoring systems and efficacy of vaccines While Kennedy insisted during his confirmation hearings that he is not anti-vaccine he repeatedly refused to acknowledge scientific consensus that childhood vaccines don t cause autism that COVID- vaccines saved millions of lives and falsely asserted the regime has no good vaccine safety monitoring according to the Associated Press The project is looking at bringing together a consortium of personnel and others to come up with a science-based approach to issues Osterholm explained Just this past week here in Minnesota a group of state legislators submitted a bill to declare the mRNA vaccine instrument as a weapon of mass destruction and that it should be at once taken off the industry and anyone using it would be liable for a criminal activity Osterholm stated Who s going to respond to that Is anybody at the federal establishment level going to 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