On June 9th of this year, RFK Jr. dismissed all 17 members of the CDC's Vaccine Advisory Committee.

Specifically, this committee was called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

However, it's more commonly known by its acronym, ACIP, ASIP. And it's basically the CDC's

vaccine expert panel. They're the ones who are responsible

for studying vaccine effects as well as side effects of both the vaccines that are currently

in development as well as the vaccines that are already on the market. ASIP is also the committee

that advises the CDC as a whole on which groups of people should receive which vaccines.

And so, as just one example of many, ASIP is the committee which decides which vaccines

should be recommended to be placed on the childhood vaccine schedule.

They also determine which vaccines insurance companies must cover.

And although the CDC as a whole has the final say,

the recommendations that come out of ASIP are almost always followed,

like 99% of the time.

In the vast majority of cases, which I want to say 100%, but probably 99%,

whatever this committee decides on does get implemented by the CDC as a whole. Now, in terms

of the members of this committee, most of them, they were practicing doctors and or experts at

major universities. And the way we worked on a day-to-day basis is that each member of the committee

was assigned to a four-year term, and basically they broke it down

into different working groups with each working group being dedicated to a certain illness.

So you had a working group for COVID-19, HPV, influenza, monkeypox, and so on.

In fact, here's how the CDC describes ASIP's work on their own official YouTube channel.

These committee members know a lot about vaccines,

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