National Vaccine Advisory Committee Meeting Friday 2/26
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National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) Meeting
Public Teleconference
Draft Agenda
Current as of February 15, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010 3 - 5 pm EST
Participants call-in: 1-888-677-1385, Passcode: NVAC
Federal Register Notice (PDF - 48KB)
3:00 pm
Introduction (5 minutes)
Dr. Gus Birkhead (NVAC Chair)
3:05 pm
Report of H1N1 Vaccine Safety Risk Assessment Working Group (VSRAWG)(20 minutes)
Dr. Marie McCormick (NVAC)
Dr. Dan Salmon (NVPO)
3:25 pm
NVAC Recommendation on state and local health department sustainability (25 minutes)
Dr. Gus Birkhead (NVAC Chair)
NVAC Recommendations on the National Vaccine Plan Prioritization in the National Vaccine Plan (45 minutes)
Dr. Gus Birkhead (NVAC Chair)
4:35 pm
Public comment (5 minutes)
4:40 pm
Summary / wrap-up / next steps (5 min)
Dr. Gus Birkhead (NVAC Chair)
4:45 pm
Adjourn
Questions: e-mail: [email protected] or call (202) 690-5566
NVAC Website: http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac/
5 minutes for public comment. Unbelievable.
Posted by: JGH-7447 | February 26, 2010 at 10:02 PM
Jan 12th 2001 closed IOM meeting that McCormick chaired..remember this? All this was said BEFORE the committee had seen anything by way of studies or evidence....
Dr. Marie McCormick, Chairman of the Immunization Safety Review Committee: “[CDC] wants us to declare, well, these things are pretty safe on a population basis.”
Kathleen Stratton, Ph.D., Study Director for the Committee: “We said this before you got here, and I think we said this yesterday, the point of no return, the line we will not cross in public policy is to pull the vaccine, change the schedule…Even recommending research is recommendations for policy. We wouldn’t say compensate, we wouldn’t say pull the vaccine, we wouldn’t say stop the program.”
Dr. McCormick: “We are not ever going to come down that it is a true side effect...”
Posted by: Andrea | February 26, 2010 at 09:34 AM
Wow - 5 whole minutes for public comment! The same amount of time given for the introduction. So glad they are open to hearing from the people MOST affected by this discussion. Sarcasm intended.
Posted by: Jill Fenech | February 26, 2010 at 08:10 AM