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    Healthy Returns: What to know about RFK Jr.’s five new vaccine panel members

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    By Ashley Capoot

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    Healthy Returns: What to know about RFK Jr.'s five new vaccine panel members

    Kirk Milhoan is a pediatric cardiologist at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Texas. HHS in a release said he “holds a Ph.D. in the mechanisms of myocardial inflammation.” He is a senior fellow at the Independent Medical Alliance, a group formed in 2020 that has been fighting to restrict the use of mRNA Covid vaccines for pregnant women and children and has advocated for unproven Covid treatments. Milhoan’s bio on the group’s website says he is dedicated to treating patients with “vaccine-related cardiovascular toxicity due to the spike protein.” At a 2024 panel on vaccine injuries convened by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican and vocal Covid shot skeptic, Milhoan claimed those vaccines pose more harm than good.

    Hillary Blackburn is a pharmacist and director of medication access and affordability at the Catholic health system, Ascension. She is the daughter-in-law of Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.

    Evelyn Griffin is an obstetrician and gynecologist based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. HHS said “she was among the first robotic-assisted gynecologic surgeons in the U.S. and has led efforts to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality.” According to local reports, she has spoken against Louisiana’s decision to add Covid shots to the school immunization schedule and has testified about adverse reactions from vaccines.

    Raymond Pollak is a transplant surgeon in Illinois. In 1999, Pollak was a whistleblower in a suit against the University of Illinois Hospital alleging that the hospital admitted patients for liver transplants when they were not medically necessary. HHS said he’s published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and been a principal investigator on National Institutes of Health transplant biology grants and numerous drug trials. Pollak’s views on vaccines are unclear.

    Catherine Stein, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. HHS said she has published 115 peer-reviewed articles, and her research has focused on tuberculosis and infectious diseases. Stein has been openly critical of the U.S.’s response to Covid and has downplayed the severity of the pandemic. She told Ohio lawmakers that health officials were inflating Covid death and hospitalization numbers, according to Ohio Capital Journal.

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