Washington D.C. – In line with the Trump administration “downplaying their push to overhaul vaccine policy” amid its extreme unpopularity, late Friday night, Trump Health Secretary RFK Jr. quietly announced yet another concerning anti-vax member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), Angie Farella. After unceremoniously firing all 17 members last year, Kennedy has continued to pack ACIP with anti-science quacks, including its Chairman, who thinks a return of Polio wouldn’t be so bad. Kennedy’s overhauled ACIP has already made dangerous and unfounded recommendations adopted by the Trump CDC, including putting more kids at risk of potentially fatal hepatitis B.
“Secretary Kennedy and Donald Trump may try to hide their anti-vaccine efforts to avoid accountability, but in practice, their latest anti-vaccine moves are only getting more aggressive,” said Kayla Hancock, Director of Protect Our Care’s Public Health Project. “The appointment of Angie Farella to ACIP is the latest step in an escalating Trump-RFK Jr. war against peer-reviewed science. This is someone who pushed patients to risk their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic while advocating to rip the vaccines credited with saving over 2.5 million American lives off the market. Trump’s growing dream team of anti-vax frauds and wellness grifters presents nothing but a nightmare for public health, from more lives endangered by preventable disease to ballooning health costs.”
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ANGIE FARELLA:
- Dr. Angie Farella is a vocal vaccine opponent, advocating to “stop the immunizing” of young mothers and touting efforts to “pull” the COVID-19 vaccines from the market.
- Farella is a member of America’s Frontline Doctors, a fringe group that was a leading promoter of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 – an unproven anti-parasitic drug for animals that led to increased emergency room visits from patients who had taken the drug after receiving misleading information.
- During the height of the pandemic, the group also repeatedly shared misleading claims about COVID-19, including promoting hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment and asserting that masks did not slow its spread.
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