{"id":13133,"date":"2025-08-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=13133"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:59:21","slug":"big-pharma-exposed-screenshot-reveals-bankrolling-of-pediatric-group-pushing-covid-shots-for-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=13133","title":{"rendered":"Big Pharma Exposed: Screenshot Reveals Bankrolling of Pediatric Group Pushing COVID Shots for Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">By\u00a0<strong>LifeZette News Staff<\/strong><br><strong><time datetime=\"2025-08-20\">August 20, 2025<\/time><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is facing renewed questions over corporate influence in vaccine recommendations after a screenshot&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/katie-jerkovich\/2025\/08\/19\/pay-to-play-academy-of-pediatrics-posts-info-that-proves-trump-admin-rfk-jr-are-right-about-vaccines-n2193006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surfaced<\/a>&nbsp;showing the organization\u2019s top corporate donors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image, shared Tuesday on X by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., revealed that four of the largest pharmaceutical companies are listed among the academy\u2019s highest-level contributors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The screenshot, which Kennedy said came directly from the AAP\u2019s website, identified Merck, Moderna, Pfizer, and Sanofi as \u201cPresidential Circle\u201d donors\u2014each contributing $50,000 or more annually to the AAP\u2019s \u201cFriends of Children\u2019s Fund.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In return, the companies receive invitations to an exclusive Corporate Summit hosted each summer at AAP\u2019s national headquarters in Itasca, Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy, appointed HHS Secretary under President Donald Trump, noted that these same four companies manufacture nearly every vaccine on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) recommended childhood schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He argued that their financial relationship with AAP raises concerns over whether pediatric vaccine guidance is influenced by corporate sponsorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese four companies make virtually every vaccine on the CDC-recommended childhood vaccine schedule,\u201d Kennedy wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAAP is angry that CDC has eliminated corporate influence in decisions over vaccine recommendations and returned CDC to gold-standard science and evidence-based medicine, laser-focused on children\u2019s health.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0LifeZette News StaffAugust 20, 2025 The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is facing renewed questions over corporate influence in vaccine recommendations after a screenshot&nbsp;surfaced&nbsp;showing the organization\u2019s top corporate donors. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13134,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions\/13134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}