People rally outside of CDC headquarters during vaccine meeting

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(25 Jun 2025)
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Atlanta - 25 June 2025
1. Various of the CDC Alumni and Friends Rally Against ACIP Changes group rallying outside of the CDC headquarters during the ACIP meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tony Fiore, former CDC worker:
"This disbanding of the previous ACIP was just really reckless and I don't think it was done with any forethought. Replacing them with people who describe themselves as vaccine skeptics just answering questions are really hurting and sowing distrust in the American public about the effectiveness and the safety of these really effective public health interventions."
3. Various of the CDC Alumni and Friends Rally Against ACIP Changes group rallying outside of the CDC headquarters during the ACIP meeting
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Stephen Hadler, former CDC worker:
"The theme is is to protect or reinstate ACIP as it's meant to be as a committee of experts who can work together and build consensus and not just necessarily be there to do the bidding of people in Washington who do not share the opinion that vaccines are a universal good."
5. Various of the CDC Alumni and Friends Rally Against ACIP Changes group rallying outside of the CDC headquarters during the ACIP meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tony Fiore, former CDC worker:
"Seeing this this sort of an asset of public health being threatened like this has just been very difficult."
7. Various of the CDC Alumni and Friends Rally Against ACIP Changes group rallying outside of the CDC headquarters during the ACIP meeting
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tony Fiore, former CDC worker:
"The advisory committee on immunization practices is meeting today for the first time since the committee was reconstituted. I guess it's been about two weeks now, the entire existing committee of 17 highly qualified experienced people, some of who had been on the committee for years, two or three years at least, and they were all let go, fired, I think is the way that Secretary Kennedy described it."
9. Various of the CDC Alumni and Friends Rally Against ACIP Changes group rallying outside of the CDC headquarters during the ACIP meeting
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Stephen Hadler, former CDC worker:
"All of them have major impact on, or previously did, on diseases in children that most people don't see anymore. And it's great. It's unfortunate that people don't understand how much good the vaccines have done over so many years."
11. Various of the CDC Alumni and Friends Rally Against ACIP Changes group rallying outside of the CDC headquarters during the ACIP meeting

STORYLINE:
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers met for the first time on Wednesday.

While the group met at the CDC headquarters, a group rallied outside in support of the CDC and the former ACIP members.

"This disbanding of the previous ACIP was just really reckless and I don't think it was done with any forethought," said Dr. Tony Fiore, a former CDC employee.

As the group rallied on the sidewalk with bells and drums, passing cars joined in honking.

"The theme is is to protect or reinstate ACIP as it's meant to be as a committee of experts who can work together and build consensus and not just necessarily be there to do the bidding of people in Washington who do not share the opinion that vaccines are a universal good," said Dr. Stephen Hadler, a former CDC employee.

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