The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just dismissed every voting member from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group made up entirely of Biden appointees, many of whom have seemingly major conflicts of interest because of ties to large pharmaceutical corporations and histories of donating to Democrats.

ACIP, an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has a history of rubber-stamping everything it comes across, with some members even voting in favor of major changes like recommending that children ages 5 to 11 receive a coronavirus “vaccine” booster shot without any data to support that intervention.

Other members have taken consulting fees and related payments from Big Pharma, donated to far-left Democrats, and appear to look uncritically at any item regarding vaccines.

“Today we are prioritizing the restoration of public trust above any specific pro- or anti-vaccine agenda,” Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a press release. “The public must know that unbiased science — evaluated through a transparent process and insulated from conflicts of interest — guides the recommendations of our health agencies.”

“A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science,” he continued. “ACIP’s new members will prioritize public health and evidence-based medicine. The Committee will no longer function as a rubber stamp for industry profit-taking agendas. The entire world once looked to American health regulators for guidance, inspiration, scientific impartiality, and unimpeachable integrity. Public trust has eroded. Only through radical transparency and gold standard science, will we earn it back.”

HHS plans to rebuild the advisory committee from scratch.

Helen K. Talbot, MD, MPH

Talbot, who became chair on March 5, 2024 (and served on the committee from 2018 to 2023), voted in favor of recommending that Americans between the ages of 18 and 64 receive a third coronavirus vaccine booster from Pfizer despite one of her colleagues at the time, Dr. Paul Offit, saying that “there was not much data about booster shots,” according to STAT News.

In spite of the lack of data during the 2021 vote, Talbot urged ACIP members to vote in favor of the recommendation, yet said that boosting vaccinated people was like “putting lipstick on frogs,” adding, “This is not going to solve the pandemic.”

By 2023, Talbot voted to recommend updated coronavirus vaccines to those aged six months and older.

In 2019, while a voting member of ACIP, Talbot received consulting fees from Sanofi Pasteur, a French pharmaceutical division specializing in vaccines.

Before Monday’s actions, Talbot’s term was supposed to end in June 2025.

Charlotte A. Moser, MS

Moser is perhaps the most openly tyrannical of the committee members.

She is co-director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and developed a program called Parents Possessing, Accessing, and Communicating Knowledge (PACK), which comes with a free application to “access to accurate vaccine info wherever and whenever you need it.”

However, a feature article from PACK went through an exercise in what was true or false about vaccines based on “knowledge (what we know), feelings (what we feel) and misinformation.” The newsletter claimed that not giving a newborn the Hepatitis B vaccine was based on “feelings,” and that giving the vaccine was “based on science.”

Moser wrote an article with Offit criticizing a vaccine approach from Dr. Robert Sears that encouraged parents to space out giving vaccines to their children.

She co-authored another article claiming there are high costs to society from those who do not want to be vaccinated, calling the decision “negligent.” The article examined “legal tools for imposing costs” like a “coercive mechanism” through “the use of criminal law,” concluding that the “possibility of imposing costs through criminal law liability is a subject that deserves its own treatment” in future studies.

She and the other authors also advocated imposing vaccine mandates for accessing “parks, pools and water parks, government buildings, theaters, sporting venues, shopping centers, and other public accommodations.” Additionally, they discussed allowing the non-vaccinated to be sued in civil court and favored implementing “a no-fault approach that seeks to force every person who opts out to internalize the cost of the failure to vaccinate so that the one who incurs the cost is the one who bears it” through the use of a tax, fee, an increase in premium or other cost.

The paper likewise explored the idea of modifying Obamacare to increase premiums on unvaccinated and billing unvaccinated persons known to have caused a disease outbreak, and explicitly recommended the creation of a “mechanism for recouping the costs of outbreak caused by non-vaccinating.”

Moser’s term was set to expire in June of 2028.

Edwin Jose Asturias, MD

From 2017 through 2023 — the latest data available on the OpenPaymentsData.CMS.gov website — Asturias received tens of thousands in consulting fees and reimbursements for travel and lodging expenses and food and beverage costs from Merck, Pfizer, and Sanofi, all three of which are major pharmaceutical companies and vaccine manufacturers.

In his most lucrative year, 2019, Asturias gained a total of $23,313.34 in consulting and related payments, receiving $14,942.97 from Pfizer and $8,341.38 from Merck.

Asturias’s term was set to expire in June 2028.

Noel T. Brewer, PhD

Brewer is also well connected to Big Pharma, having received grants and/or served on paid boards at Pfizer, Merck, and GSK, a British pharmaceutical company formerly known as GlaxoSmithKline, according to personal disclosures.

Brewer is also a Democrat donor, having given $1,000 to Joe Biden and $200 to North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, who narrowly lost to Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., in 2020.

Brewer’s term was set to expire in June 2028.

Oliver Brooks, MD, FAAP

In 2022, Brooks voted to recommend that children aged 5 to 11 receive coronavirus vaccine booster shots despite there being no data on outcomes. The committee granted approval largely on the basis of a small Pfizer study of 140 children showing simply that their antibody levels had increased — something “known to be transitory.”

Brooks has received tens of thousands in consulting fees and related payments, primarily from Sanofi Pasteur, from 2017 to 2023.

The ACIP member has a long history of giving money to far-left Democrats, including current Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass when she was running for U.S. Congress. He also donated to Kamala Harris when she was running for Senate and far-left Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga.

Brooks’s term was set to expire in June 2025.

Lin H. Chen, MD, FACP, FASTMH, FISTM

Before her appointment to ACIP by Biden in 2024, Chen received thousands in payments from Merck, Sanofi Pasteur, and French vaccine company Valneva from 2017 to 2023.

Moderna has also given Mount Auburn Hospital nearly $250,000 during Chen’s tenure as director of its Travel Medicine Center.

Her term was set to expire in June 2028.

Helen Y. Chu, MD, MPH, FIDSA

While conducting a study on coronavirus vaccine efficacy, Chu disclosed “receiving personal fees from AbbVie, Vindico, Ellume, Medscape, Merck, Clinical Care Options, Cataylst Medical Education, Vir, Pfizer, and Prime Education.”

In addition she has received “research support from Gates Ventures, NIH, CDC, Gates Foundation, DARPA, Sanofi-Pasteur, Cepheid and serves on advisory boards for Abbvie, Merck, Pfizer, Ellume, and the Gates Foundation.”

She also received thousands in consulting fees from Merck and Abbvie from 2019 to 2023 and has been a “co-investigator on studies funded by Pfizer, Novavax, and GSK.”

Sybil Cineas, MD, FAAP, FACP

In 2022, Cineas voted to recommend Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine booster without having the company’s full data on the shot.

Cineas has also taken multiple steps to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology, including signing an open letter claiming the medical profession has a “pervasive culture of White Supremacy.” The letter also stated that “we have thus lost our confidence in the ability of current systems and power structures to support and protect trainees and faculty other than those who identify as White cis-gender men.”

Serving as a professor at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School, Cineas helped creat a “two-year program for medical residents” that had “didactic sessions using art to teach skills of observation, communication, and bias,” noting in the conclusions section that “open-ended survey questions are undergoing qualitative analysis and have thus far noted themes, including: how to embrace ambiguity; recognizing/acknowledging our implicit biases; intentionality in word choice; and how to practice mindfulness.”

Further stressing her DEI bona fides, Cineas serves on an advisory council to Brown’s Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

Cineas’s term was set to expire in June 2025.

Denise J. Jamieson, MD, MPH

Jamieson claimed as early as the spring of 2021 that vaccines were “safe and effective” for pregnant women, despite the fact that Pfizer’s own data showed serious risk for pregnant women. Jamieson also used the term “pregnant persons,” a far-left term implying that men can become pregnant.

Likewise, she is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), which is not only a major pro-abortion advocacy organization, but was also reportedly paid $11 million by the CDC to promote coronavirus vaccines as “safe and effective” for pregnant women. Jamieson was a member of ACOG’s Practice Advisory on COVID-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy.

In 2020, while Jamieson was a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the group donated $150,000 to the Democratic National Committee, over $6,000 to Biden, and thousands to other candidates.

George Kuchel, MD, CM, FRCP, AGSF, FGSA, FAAAS

Kuchel claimed that the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine was “transformational” and that there was “no evidence of any kind that vaccines having a negative effect on fetuses or children in that context” before the FDA required the addition of a warning label because some recipients developed Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).

Kuchel also received more than $1,000 from Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company (most well known for Ozempic, Rybelsus, and Wegovy), as well as thousands from Janssen Global Services, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

His term was set to expire in June of 2028.

Jamie Loehr, MD, FAAFP

Loehr wrote a paper stating that “structural changes, such as removing personal and religious exemptions for vaccines required for attending school, are effective tools in increasing vaccination rates.”

He also wrote separately citing positively the American Academy of Family Physicians’ position opposing vaccine exemptions, encouraging doctors to pressure for vaccinations and to “fight another day” if “despite all your best efforts, a small percentage of patients will refuse one or more vaccines.”

The article essentially advocates for every child to receive every single vaccine on the schedule no matter what.

In a 2025 ACIP meeting, Loehr said he favors a risk-based change to the coronavirus vaccine recommendation (that they should be favored for some groups and not others), but stated he was worried that it might send the wrong message, claiming, “COVID-19 is still a fairly dangerous disease and very, very common. We’re not talking about 10 cases of mpox [monkeypox]. We’re talking about thousands of hospitalizations and deaths.” 

His term was set to expire in June 2025.

Karyn Lyons, MS, RN

Lyons was serving as the Immunization Section Chief at the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), when the organization successfully got Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., to sign an executive order requiring all individuals over the age of two to wear face masks, including those already vaccinated. It also required all health care workers, school teachers, higher education staff, and students to receive the coronavirus vaccine or undergo regular testing.

Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado, MD

Prior to her appointment by the Biden administration, Maldonado “served as Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) for Pfizer meningococcal vaccine trials and as a site [principal investigator] for Pfizer pediatric COVID-19 and maternal RSV vaccines and AstraZenaca varicella zoster vaccine trials.”

Between 2017 and 2023, she received thousands in consulting fees from Pfizer and Merck.

She has also served as Stanford’s senior associate dean of Faculty Development and Diversity since 2014.

Her term was set to expire in June 2027.

Robert Schechter, MD, MSc

Schechter urged California to “prioritiz[e] who receives the vaccine first through a racial equity lens,” noting that “we have the opportunity to center BIPOC in the decision making process” in the coronavirus vaccine rollout. “Our agricultural workers are predominantly Latinx,” Schechter added. “They are also tripled and quadrupled up in their living quarters.”

His term was set to expire in June 2027.

Albert C. Shaw, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Shaw is a member of the Yale Infectious Disease Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism Committee. He was also involved in implementing curriculum at the university’s medical school that primarily focused on “integrating Infectious Disease Diversity, Equity, and Antiracism (ID2EA) into ID educational training.”

Prior to being appointed by the Biden administration, he received thousands from GSK and Boehringer Ingelheim.

His term was set to expire in June 2027.

Mini Kamboj, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA

Kamboj supported a 2021 petition advocating that the United States pay for free coronavirus vaccines to India.

Her term was set to expire in June 2028.

Jane R. Zucker, MD, MSc, FIDSA

Zucker listed New York City’s disastrous Covid-19 response as one of her “greatest accomplishments.”