ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) Public Comment Deadline Today

Today is the last day to submit a public comment. Here's how to do it.

Sorry for the late note! I found this public comment page as I was reviewing the draft meeting schedule for ACIP that was just published on June 18th, 2025. More about that in another post that I will link here when I finish writing it.

As many of you know the highly vetted, extremely experienced 17 member ACIP panel was fired in complete by RFK Jr. on June 9th and swiftly replaced by a 8 member group (increasing each member’s influence) many of whom have been staunchly against vaccines and have been caught outright lying. ACIP has had a long history of full public disclosure of any an all potential conflicts of interest, the newly appointed advisory panel does not.

Many new ACIP members have not specialized in any relevant area of science or medicine and have only come to prominence as social media serial tweeters that against all evidence were anti-vaccine and anti-COVID vaccine. Persistently posting debunked studies and pushing policy that would have resulted in millions of more deaths as if they were truth and refusing to / unable to (lack of expertise) talk to their audiences about conflicting data reports.

Myself and many social media creators who are highly credentialed in our fields of science and medicine are able to fluently walk our audiences through seemingly conflicting studies and show where/why/how the results are produced, interpret the importance of the results and study design, and describe the direct implications to your health at an individual and population based level. This basic level of scientific fluency is necessary for ACIP decision making, a role that impacts the health of over 340 million people.

Here is how to leave a public comment and below that is the public comment I have submitted for inspiration.

If you would like to speak at the meeting here is a link you can use to sign up to be selected to speak: https://www2.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/acip_publiccomment.asp

To submit a public comment to ACIP

1. Go to: https://www.cdc.gov/acip/meetings/index.html#cdc_toolkit_main_toolkit_cat_2-public-comment

2. Scroll down until you see the “Public comment” header and click on Federal eRulemaking Portal (or just go there directly by clicking on the link provided here)

3. Search for CDC-2025-0024

4. Write and submit your public comment on the upcoming meeting

One thing of note that I did leave out in my pubic comment was that I would like the ACIP committee to explain the reasoning and provide the supporting data as to why they are revisiting approval of already approved vaccines. The public deserves to see the data that supports them re-reviewing vaccines that have been given for decades.

Here is the comment that I have submitted

I would like the new ACIP committee to ensure that they discuss the following items and/or a timeline of written disclosure for the following items:

1. What is the timeline for disclosure of a complete accounting of all financial conflicts of interest, both past and present, for each newly appointed ACIP member. Please also disclose which independent auditing agency that will be hired to confirm that these are their only financial conflicts of interest.

2. Please explain the plan to publish/outline each newly appointed ACIP members expertise and history of expertise in any of the following fields: Virology, Immunology, Epidemiology, Infectious Disease, and/or their Medical Field of Study and if they are actively practicing or licensed Physicians. If they have no qualifications or active practice in any of these scientific areas please disclose an accounting to the taxpaying public as to why and what their specific areas of expertise is such that they are tasked with making broad-sweeping medical decisions for the United States public.

3. Please discuss in this meeting the ethical considerations of not vaccinating children against potentially deadly and disabling disease to ensure that a "control group" can be used to see how sick and how many of them will die if not vaccinated as has been suggested to be the next goals of the current HHS, FDA and NIH directors.

4. Please discuss if the parents of these children be notified that their children are not receiving the protective vaccines OR does this administration plan to blind these studies such that parents of children in the US will not know if they are vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, polio, influenza, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis etc.?

5. Please discuss parental consent and parental education plans if a study that does not allow childhood vaccination is approved.

6. Please provide a detailed explanation as to why the committees under the HHS have failed to select a variant for the fall SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and how this is expected to impact vulnerable and healthy populations that will, without an updated booster shot, be more prone to development of debilitating long COVID.

7. Please detail the committee's criteria for future vaccine approvals. This is of critical public concern given the rapid appointment of many committee members that do not have a history of direct experience or expertise in any relevant scientific fields beyond initial interest starting ~5 years ago. Typically people tasked with such serious and sweeping power to dictate the health access of a large population (~340 million Americans) have decades of relevant experience and expertise in a relevant field of study.