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This trade publication's coverage of the second day of the September 2025 ACIP meeting highlights some of the dubious data considered by the committee and quotes DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs calling the presentations "smoke and mirrors, designed to generate fear of COVID19 vaccines."

Inside Health Policy recaps a chaotic week at the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meetings, with Defend Public Health Coordinating Committee Members Beth Jacobs and Jim Alwine weighing in on the potential impacts of the committee's votes.

The LA Times describes the 9/19/25 ACIP meeting as "a contentious discussion that at times referenced discredited theories, low-quality data and desperate pleas from physicians and patients to rely upon sound science," quoting DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs on the utter lack of qualifications of Retsef Levi, who led the discussion.

In this story covering day 1 of September's ACIP meeting, DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs calls out ACIP's failure to post information in advance, saying, “Red flags are immediately up, because as a scientist, when you do your work, you’re presenting it. You’re making it public. The fact that they have not posted these materials is very suggestive that they are going to attempt to ambush the public.”

In this episode of the Infectious Dose podcast, sociologist–organizer Jon Shaffer, Ph.D., a member of DPH's Coordinating Committee explains why organizing—not just evidence—wins concrete, local public-health protections, and how Defend Public Health is training state teams to do exactly that.

Santa Cruz physician and Defend Public Health member Jeoffry B. Gordon warns that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine restrictions threaten public health, especially amid a growing U.S. measles outbreak. Kennedy’s limits on COVID-19 vaccine licensing exclude healthy children, pregnant women and many front-line workers, creating confusion and reduced access. He urges readers to get COVID-19 vaccines and to support California SB 144.

In this nationally syndicated column, DPH members Donna Gaffney and Teri Mills write, "We are grandparents. We are passionate, committed, and yes, radical. Make no mistake about what we stand for. In the 1960s and 1970s, we marched for civil rights, fought and protested wars, and demanded justice. Today, we march again. This time it’s personal: We are defending our grandchildren’s right to health, their right to vaccines."

Defend Public Health members Dr. James Alwine and Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs thank Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs for making COVID19 vaccines more accessible, and suggest that the state join the West Coast Health Alliance along with California, Hawaii, Washington and Oregon to safeguard the health of Arizonans.

Due to new restrictions imposed by HHS Secretary Kennedy, increasing numbers of Americans find they must travel out of state to get a COVID-19 vaccination. DPH Coordinating Committee member James Alwine tells Mother Jones, “Blue states are going to have to step up and make their own rules and allow people to get vaccinations at the pharmacies."