To RFK Jr.’s hand-picked group of ACIP Committee members that are working hard to undermine vaccine policy in the United States, we can add Dr. Angie Farella.
And apparently, she is going to fit right in!
Introducing Angie Farella – RFK Jr.’s Latest Addition to ACIP
Let’s start with her advice to encourage kids to out of their way to be around their elderly family members at the peak of the COVID pandemic.
Why didn’t she think kids were a threat?
She thinks children are buffers!
“…we knew then and I kept saying do not separate children from adults children are the buffer. Why are children buffers? Well, because they catch every virus on the planet. Corona virus – different strains that are not COVID-19 inferred immunity. So if you had a little kid who had a bunch of colds, I would tell them go hug on Grandma and Granddad cause you know what, you’re actually protecting them.”
Angie Farella on the Dr. Mollie James show
Well, what’s wrong with Angie Farella’s thinking?
Mostly it is that while many types of seasonal human coronaviruses do commonly cause colds in kids, these non-COVID coronaviruses don’t make you immune to developing COVID!
There is no inferred immunity.
What else?
This, and her other interviews, provide great insight into how Angie Farella thinks and practices medicine.
Far from the critical thinking skills that are necessary for someone on the ACIP Committee (well, pre-RFK JR.’s ACIP Committee), it is evident that she just tries whatever comes to mind, even if there is no good evidence that it will work.
For example, early in the COVID pandemic, as a pediatrician (well, a functional, integrative, holistic pediatrician), she started treating adult patients with anti-viral flu medications. Why? She figured that since flu and COVID were both viruses, then Tamiflu, Xofluza, and amantadine should work to treat it too. And she was wrong. Well, she thinks they worked, but later studies showed they actually didn’t.
“Hydroxychloroquine came down the pike. I had quite a few of my patients, like grandparents, on HCQ, and so I was like great, if you know if someone gets sick in the house, share your HCQ with them just temporarily if you can’t get them in to see me.”
Angie Farella on the Dr. Mollie James show
I guess we know why she was investigated by the Texas Medical Board now…
Also, the idea of a pediatrician treating thousands of adult patients via telemed is highly unusual. The telemed rules were enabled during COVID so that providers could still safely ‘see’ their own patients, not to be abused by these kinds of folks pushing non-approved treatments to patients that they had never examined in person.
There’s more…
When the first COVID patient she treated, an adult, had signs and symptoms of myocarditis, Dr. Angie Farella’s advice to her was to ‘go outside, go take a little walk, not a big deal…’
And she didn’t think wearing PPE was necessary when she was around COVID patients, because she had a good immune system.
Tragically, that kind of cavalier attitude got a lot of people killed.
And there’s more…
Here attitudes on vaccines?
She doesn’t give kids a vaccine until it has been licensed for at least five years and she only uses vaccines that are preservative free.
And she thinks this helps explain why she doesn’t diagnose many autistic kids in her practice.
“I think the preservatives in some of the vaccines really do play a role.”
Angie Farella on the Dr. Mollie James show
The problem with this thinking?
Except for a small number of flu shots, vaccines don’t have preservatives anymore. And most of the flu shots kids get are preservative free.
What does she think about measles?
Coming from Texas, where two kids died with measles last year, you would think she would have a good understand of measles, right?
“Look at the measles reporting. The measles reporting is flat out ridiculous in Texas. When I say ridiculous, I mean ridiculous, because they’re trying to say that back in 2020 there was a zero incidence of measles, and I just looked it up on our US statistics and it wasn’t zero. It’s not been zero since 2020. There has been cases tens tens to in 2020 because how many cases were in the United States in 2020? I’m just let’s just throw that out there any idea over 1200 cases of measles in the United States in 2020. Did we hear of any measles cases in the United States? So this is what drives me cuckoo kachu right. Because even less than five years ago we had 1200 cases of measles in the United States and people were isolated they were isolated. There were lockdowns. How did 1200 people get measles?”
Angie Farella on the Dr. Mollie James show
Nope.
Can you spot what’s wrong with Farella’s thinking about the 2020 measles outbreaks? They happened in 2019…
She kinda of missed that they happened well before the COVID pandemic, with most of the cases centered in New York in an outbreak that ended in July 2019!
And yes, most of us heard about these cases. 2019 was a record breaking year. In 2019 we had the largest single outbreak since the endemic spread of measles was eliminated in 2000 and the most cases in a single year since 1992. Records that were quickly broken…
In 2020, there were just 13 cases of measles in the United States, thanks to all of those lockdowns.
She’s still not done…
Apparently, she wants to bring back tetanus!
I guess she doesn’t understand that the incidence of tetanus is so low because most people are either vaccinated and protected or they get a tetanus shot after a dirty wound!
Angie Farella has also:
- downplayed COVID infections in kids, despite the simple fact that nearly 1,900 children died with COVID during the pandemic and about 200,000 were hospitalized!
- said that immunity from the MMR isn’t life-long because some people have negative titers after they are vaccinated, not understanding the concept of the anamnestic response
- says that kids, including school age kids, developed ‘social autism’ because they had to wear masks during COVID and who now “can not survive person to person, face to face interactions.”
- wanted to get COVID, so that she could get it over with…
- compares natural immunity from a COVID infection to the natural immunity from a chickenpox infection, even though we know you can get infections like COVID and flu over and over again
- continuously complains about doctors closing down, even though as essential workers, doctors never did close down in Texas (I was there and we stayed open continuously during the pandemic!)
- said testing for COVID wasn’t necessary because “when you’re a physician, 90% of what you do is take a history, take those symptoms, match them together in your brain, remember we have a brain, and you use your you use your clinical acumen to get as close to what you think is going on, and then you start treating – I mean this is this is just medicine 101.” – of course, results will vary depending on your clinical acumen!
- was against COVID vaccines before they even came out
- called for COVID vaccines to be recalled after they came out
- says COVID vaccines do not work and are neither safe nor effective
- said that COVID patients should be treated with vitamin D, zinc, and other non-standard drugs
- said that we could ‘crush the pandemic’ by treating patients, ‘not by vaccinating.’
- started the Doctors Fight for Freedom organization after getting in trouble with the Texas Medical Board
- posted that the RSV vaccine “has always been an utter failure”, three months after it was first licensed in 2023, reposting that it has killed 4,000 newborns!
- promotes the idea of turbo cancer and it’s treatment with ivermectin
Again, Angie Farella fits in great with RFK Jr.’s new ACIP Committee.
That’s not a great flex though…
More on Angie Farella
- It’s still always about the grift—and the grifters
- Hydroxychloroquine: The Black Knight of treatments for COVID-19
- Physicians who promote COVID-19 and antivaccine misinformation should lose their medical license
- ICN says 115,000 healthcare worker deaths from COVID-19 exposes collective failure of leaders to protect global workforce
- 3607 US healthcare worker deaths
- Excess Mortality Among US Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- AAP, other medical groups file motion to block CDC’s new immunization schedule
- RFK Jr.’s Flawed Justifications for ‘Clean Sweep’ of CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel
Last Updated on March 4, 2026
You must be logged in to post a comment.