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For example, insurance companies typically don’t cover shots that aren’t recommended by ACIP. An ACIP recommendation is also the basis on which the federal Vaccines for Children Program pays for vaccines for minors whose families can’t afford them. That program covers vaccine costs for about half of U.S. children.
Former Merck consultant and dismissed ACIP member Dr. Helen Chu was quoted in a recent op-ed in MedPage Today as calling on physicians to “turn away” from ACIP’s vaccine recommendations. She received thousands of dollars from Merck in the year before her ACIP appointment.
Merck is the manufacturer of multiple major childhood vaccines, including the Gardasil HPV vaccine; the MMRII for measles, mumps and rubella; a chicken pox vaccine and several others.
