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A community member did most of the legwork on finding the data for this report. We would like to credit her, but she is concerned about retaliatory job loss. The email exchanges following were provided by Elizabeth Hart (see more information at the end of the article).<\/em><\/p>\n PLEASE SHARE THIS ARTICLE WITH YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES AND WIDELY ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND TAG THEM.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n STATNEWS recently\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0the news that the CDC\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP<\/a>), has filled recently vacated seats:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it is filling eight vacancies, including the chairmanship, on an important advisory panel on vaccine policy that was down to less than half of its normal roster for months.<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s still not clear why so many positions were left unfilled on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. STAT reported on\u00a0the vacancies<\/a>, which had flummoxed public health experts in the country, last week.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n We had previously found that\u00a0every single member<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0of the committee, except the member representing the Department of Defense, had serious conflicts of interest with vaccine manufacturers.<\/p>\n ACIP is responsible for making \u201crecommendations\u201d for additions to the CDC\u2019s already packed schedule of pediatric vaccines. In the past, they have approved vaccines with no discussion of safety until after the vote, and the pattern of behavior and operations of the committee appears to be that \u201ccompetitors\u201d in the vaccine market recommend each others\u2019 vaccines to help open markets for the vaccines they have in the queue.<\/p>\n Cozy.<\/p>\n The STATNews article listed four persons who were scheduled to be added to the ACIP roster. So we looked into their history of payments from vaccine manufacturers.<\/p>\n These are the results.<\/p>\n