RFK Jr’s pick to review Covid vaccines authored misleading research, experts say

HHS calls MIT professor ‘more than qualified’ for advisory panel and calls ‘attacks’ on him ‘politically motivated’ The MIT professor who has been appointed by Robert F Kennedy Jr to review the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has failed to meet basic scientific standards in his own research on the topic, according to more than a dozen scientists and public health experts. Retsef Levi, an operations management professor, is a member of the US health department’s vaccine advisory committee (ACIP), which is meeting later this month and – many experts fear – could seek to roll back recommendations on who should receive Covid-19 vaccines. Levi, who holds Israeli and American citizenship, has claimed that Covid-19 vaccines are the “most failing medical product in the history of medical products”, despite a body of research that has shown they are safe and effective. A modeling study published in 2022 in the prestigious medical journal the Lancet estimated that Covid-19 vaccines saved nearly 20 million lives in the first year they were available. He holds a coveted seat on the ACIP, which was once considered the “international gold standard for vaccine decision-makingâ