Joseph Hibbeln, a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), said Monday that a vote to axe a recommendation that every newborn get the hepatitis B vaccine “wasn’t based on data.”
“I repeatedly asked for it, and no data of harm was presented. There were speculations, ‘Oh, we need to have future studies of hundreds of thousands of people and we have to examine the possibility of an unknown unknown.’ Well, to me, that’s speculation, and that’s not data,” Hibbeln told CNN’s Pamela Brown on “The Situation Room.”
“So, do you think the decision was based on speculation, then?” Brown asked.
“Well, it certainly wasn’t based on data,” Hibbeln responded, as highlighted by Mediaite.
ACIP voted 8-3 on Friday to exclusively recommend birth doses of the hepatitis B vaccine for infants born to mothers who have tested positive for the virus. Hibbeln was one of the three who voted against the exclusion.
Strange-Style3879 on
Have any decisions out of the CDC this year been based on data?
jcouball on
Not shit.
Although maybe it would be more accurate to say it was made in spite of the copious contradictory data.
ToNoMoCo on
It was based on them wanting kids to get liver cancer
blues111 on
So glad we are using “vibes” instead of scientific data to determine vaccine schedules for infants while doing irreparable harm putting children at risk
bsport48 on
Any one of those morons on the panel itself could’ve told you that…
Accomplished-Run221 on
Data is what we base medical choices on.
FoxyInTheSnow on
I make some decisions solely based on vibes; why should science be any different? I’m tired of science always puttin’ on airs.
DalvinCanCook on
No shit sherlock
AccomplishedBother12 on
Absolutely nothing this administration is doing is based on actual data, and never will be
Ging287 on
Traitorous clowns to the people they’re supposed to be helping. Get the charlatans out of there. At this point just get the janitor, I think they’ll do a better job. He might not know anything, but he’ll say it and he’ll look into it rather than doing nothing off of b*******.
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Joseph Hibbeln, a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), said Monday that a vote to axe a recommendation that every newborn get the hepatitis B vaccine “wasn’t based on data.”
“I repeatedly asked for it, and no data of harm was presented. There were speculations, ‘Oh, we need to have future studies of hundreds of thousands of people and we have to examine the possibility of an unknown unknown.’ Well, to me, that’s speculation, and that’s not data,” Hibbeln told CNN’s Pamela Brown on “The Situation Room.”
“So, do you think the decision was based on speculation, then?” Brown asked.
“Well, it certainly wasn’t based on data,” Hibbeln responded, as highlighted by Mediaite.
ACIP voted 8-3 on Friday to exclusively recommend birth doses of the hepatitis B vaccine for infants born to mothers who have tested positive for the virus. Hibbeln was one of the three who voted against the exclusion.
Have any decisions out of the CDC this year been based on data?
Not shit.
Although maybe it would be more accurate to say it was made in spite of the copious contradictory data.
It was based on them wanting kids to get liver cancer
So glad we are using “vibes” instead of scientific data to determine vaccine schedules for infants while doing irreparable harm putting children at risk
Any one of those morons on the panel itself could’ve told you that…
Data is what we base medical choices on.
I make some decisions solely based on vibes; why should science be any different? I’m tired of science always puttin’ on airs.
No shit sherlock
Absolutely nothing this administration is doing is based on actual data, and never will be
Traitorous clowns to the people they’re supposed to be helping. Get the charlatans out of there. At this point just get the janitor, I think they’ll do a better job. He might not know anything, but he’ll say it and he’ll look into it rather than doing nothing off of b*******.
Oh really?