My personal reflections on the COVID part of last ACIP meeting:
The ACIP voted recommendations for the COVID vaccines capture the principles of personalized, modern, and ethical medicine, that is based on nuanced individual risk-benefit assessment.
It is evident that most of the public and vast majority of healthcare workers (90%) do not buy into the narrative of 'safe and effective' COVID vaccines that should be taken by everyone each year! They showed it by their actions, not following the CDC past recommendations!
The discussions during the ACIP meetings were robust, comprehensive, and rigorous. It was the first time ACIP has discussed critical risks and uncertainties like immune response to repeated boosting, bio-distribution, pharmacokinetics, and potential impurities, as well as the lack of reliable data to assess the benefits of repeated boosting.
Most importantly, this was the first time vaccine injuries and vaccine injured were acknowledged as a problem that must be addressed!
The ACIP members heard from some of the COVID Immunization workgroup members, who are top notch scholars in their respective areas. It was also the first time, where ACIP had meaningful scientific debates including hearing from the minority opinion in the workgroup.
This is how science is supposed to work, and how trust is built.