RFK, Jr. adds two vaccine and antidepressant rejectionists to U.S. vaccine advisory panel 

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed two new members to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee who have challenged broad medical consensus on vaccines and antidepressants in pregnancy.

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The newest appointees are Dr. Adam Urato, who specializes in maternal-fetal medicine … and Dr. Kimberly Biss, who … has held various leadership positions at an Orlando-area hospital.

Biss has been a vocal skeptic of Covid vaccines. In 2023, she told the GOP-led House subcommittee on Covid vaccines that some patients in her practice had faced irregularities with their menstrual cycles after receiving the shots that were so severe she’d had to perform surgeries and hysterectomies.

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Urato, meanwhile, has also questioned the safety of vaccines administered during pregnancy — including for flu, RSV and Covid — as well as the use of antidepressants among pregnant women. He has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to add a warning to a class of antidepressants known as serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, stating that they cause pregnancy complications and alter fetal brain development.

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