Wednesday, March 11, 2026

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

A Guardian review of Levi's record found that more than a dozen experts have criticized research papers he has authored on the topic for being misleading. Some experts also said they believed Levi, who is not a physician or vaccine expert and now heads ACIP's special immunizations work group on the Covid-19 vaccines, approaches the topic with a pre-determined agenda, instead of a spirit of true scientific inquiry. … 

Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis, who served as head of Israel's public health services during the pandemic, and stepped down from that role earlier this year, told the Guardian she could recall reading a draft of a paper Levi wrote in 2021, which suggested a correlation between Israel's vaccination rate and emergency calls received by first responders in Israel that involved cardiac arrest. 

"We took it very seriously at the ministry of health. We invited him to a meeting to thoroughly look at the research," she said. "At the meeting it was clear that he was not familiar with the way the data is collected and potential wrong interpretations. What was more troubling: he didn't seem to care."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/10/rfk-jr-pick-review-covid-vaccines


 

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