WASHINGTON — The future of children’s vaccines was on the agenda at Friday’s meeting of federal vaccine advisers, who are reviewing the childhood schedule.
Informing their discussion: a leader in the effort to limit access to vaccines and raise doubts about their safety and effectiveness, who has petitioned the FDA to remove access to polio and hepatitis B vaccines and represented people with vaccine injury claims.
Aaron Siri, an attorney with ties to health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., led the committee through a sweeping, 76-slide presentation that broadly addresses the childhood vaccine schedule — oscillating from granular details drawn from vaccine safety research to arguments that ignore well-understood facts about the shots.
