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Dr. Sean O'Leary with the American Academy of Pediatrics says that every vaccine on the schedule is vetted.

Now, Kennedy has also enraged the public health community recently by ordering changes to the CDC's website suggesting that vaccines and specifically an ingredient containing aluminum might cause autism.

This is also not supported by scientific consensus, but it's also a topic for this meeting.

And just for folks who might be interested, why is aluminum in vaccines?

Yeah, so it's not the aluminum metal by itself.

These are chemicals that contain aluminum, and they're used to boost the immune system to make the vaccine more effective.

Now, they've been used in vaccines since the 1930s, and they're currently used in more than a dozen of them in very small amounts.

But if these ingredients get banned, as some advocates have pushed for, there are no substitute vaccines without them that are ready to go.

It could take years for replacements to be developed and to be made.

So there is a lot at stake in this meeting.

There is, yeah.

And a lot of people in medicine, public health are going to be watching very closely.

And while doctors groups and some state health departments are making their own independent vaccine recommendations now, this panel still influences what insurance covers.

And with these public meetings, they have a big megaphone to shape what people hear and think about vaccines.

Yeah.

So I've been pre-diabetic for a few years now, like on and off.

And most recently, it's been mostly on.

And I saw that they got approved for overly counteruse last year.

So a few months ago, I decided to try one.

Right, yeah.