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Their wordsIt seems that a political goal was set - to diminish use of the Covid vaccine - and processes were manipulated in order to achieve the desired outcome, while inconvenient scientists, like the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were jettisoned.
Their wordsThere is good reason to fear that this meeting will be more political theater than scientific debate; all of the original vaccine experts on the committee were sacked by Mr. Kennedy three months ago and replaced by a new panel that included several people known for vaccine misinformation and anti-vaccine views.
Their wordsAnd when the hospitalization rates and deaths begin to rise - as they inevitably will - we will communally suffer the painful lesson that politics and incompetence cause far more side effects than any vaccine ever could.
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