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Epidemiologist fired from Harvard after refusing COVID shot named to CDC vaccine panel
College Fix ^ | June 16, 2025 | Jennifer Kabbany

Posted on 06/16/2025 9:53:06 PM PDT by george76

World-renowned infectious-disease epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff — who was fired from Harvard Medical School last year after refusing the COVID vaccine — just got a new gig.

Kulldorff has been named a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices.

Kulldorff, who had refused the COVID vaccine because of his infection-acquired immunity, lost his appointment at a Harvard-affiliated hospital in the early days of the COVID era, and in March of 2024 was officially terminated as a med school faculty member.

Since the COVID lockdowns began five years ago, Kulldorff argued that tactics such as social distancing, masking children, vaccines after infections, and other extreme measures were not the best course of action to fight the virus.

He co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for sensible tactics that would allow the globe to reach “herd immunity” and has been signed by nearly 1 million scientists worldwide.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in announcing the new members of the panel last week on X, wrote that his selections signify a “major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines.”

Kennedy wrote he retired the 17 current members of the committee and is repopulating ACIP with eight new members “committed to evidence-based medicine, gold-standard science, and common sense.”

“They have each committed to demanding definitive safety and efficacy data before making any new vaccine recommendations. The committee will review safety and efficacy data for the current schedule as well,” Kennedy stated.

MassLive reported that in 2021, “Kulldorff posted on X that ‘thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should.'”

“COVID vaccines are important for older high-risk people and their care-takers,” he wrote. “Those with prior natural infection do not need it. Nor children.”

According to the New York Times, after Kennedy’s announcement, some infectious disease and vaccine experts accused the health secretary of going back on his pledge not to pick so-called anti-vaxxers.

“When Mr. Kennedy fired the entire committee, known as the A.C.I.P., he cited financial conflicts of interest and said a clean sweep was necessary to restore public trust in vaccination,” the Times reported.

As for Harvard’s role in the controversy, writing in City Journal last year, Kulldorff argued that Harvard turned its back on him, open debate, and medical freedom.

“The beauty of our immune system is that those who recover from an infection are protected if and when they are re-exposed. This has been known since the Athenian Plague of 430 BC—but it is no longer known at Harvard,” he wrote.

“Three prominent Harvard faculty coauthored the now infamous ‘consensus’ memorandum in The Lancet, questioning the existence of Covid-acquired immunity. By continuing to mandate the vaccine for students with a prior Covid infection, Harvard is de facto denying 2,500 years of science.”

Kennedy, in announcing Kulldorff, noted he is a biostatistician and “a leading expert in vaccine safety and infectious disease surveillance.”

“… Dr. Kulldorff developed widely used tools such as SaTScan and TreeScan for detecting disease outbreaks and vaccine adverse events. His expertise includes statistical methods for public health surveillance, immunization safety, and infectious disease epidemiology. He has also been an influential voice in public health policy, advocating for evidence-based approaches to pandemic response.”


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1 posted on 06/16/2025 9:53:06 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76
According to the New York Times

Walter Duranty.

2 posted on 06/16/2025 10:07:54 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: george76; All

Another reason for Trump to cut funding


3 posted on 06/16/2025 10:26:58 PM PDT by Words Matter
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To: kiryandil; Jane Long; lightman; mewzilla; metmom; ransomnote; Grampa Dave; grey_whiskers; ...

Natural immunity known, at least, since the Athenian Plague in 430 BC..

World-renowned epidemiologist fired from Harvard after refusing the vaxx.. Martin Kulldorff

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4224854/posts


4 posted on 06/16/2025 10:30:30 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

safe AND effective


5 posted on 06/16/2025 10:48:48 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: george76

He should have sued Harvard.


6 posted on 06/17/2025 12:54:31 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
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To: george76

Not getting the so called “vaccine” is a Badge of Intelligence and Courage from unrelenting badgering from goverment and ill-informed family members.


7 posted on 06/17/2025 4:30:18 AM PDT by wetgundog
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To: wetgundog

“Not getting the so called “vaccine” is a Badge of Intelligence and Courage from unrelenting badgering from goverment and ill-informed family members.”

Doing so cost us relationships with more that one family member.

We are okay with it.

L


8 posted on 06/17/2025 4:38:00 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: wetgundog

....from unrelenting badgering from goverment and ill-informed family members.
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And don’t forget employers who hung that out there as a “do this or don’t come in tomorrow....”


9 posted on 06/17/2025 4:50:09 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: george76
I recall when Kennedy was introduced by PDJT at a rally for the first time but I've wondered what came about before that as far as who contacted who first and how that conversation went... “hey, I got this idea I'd like you to consider...” However it shaped up, the appointment by Kennedy may well shape up to be the most consequential of any as far as long term impact.
10 posted on 06/17/2025 4:55:26 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: george76
“The beauty of our immune system is that those who recover from an infection are protected if and when they are re-exposed. This has been known since the Athenian Plague of 430 BC”

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM:
So why are some people getting Covid multiple times?

Ummm, could it be that the “test” for Covid is not a true test and they just have the flu? Or maybe Covid, like the common flu changes so fast that it’s different each time, and a vaccine isn’t going to stop it, just like the flu “vaccine” can’t insure you won’t get the flu next year?
ASKING FOR A FRIEND.

11 posted on 06/17/2025 4:55:27 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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