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Mongoose
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Another win for Americans.
Now maybe we won’t have 3X the infant mortality rate of the developed countries.
View: https://x.com/seckennedy/status/2008323206923329762?s=46&t=PfGBft52CF1a98VsjZzilw
Now maybe we won’t have 3X the infant mortality rate of the developed countries.
View: https://x.com/seckennedy/status/2008323206923329762?s=46&t=PfGBft52CF1a98VsjZzilw
PJF
Well-Known Member
Such simple common sense. Lefties will hate it...
Red
Well-Known Member
How about we take an honest look at what’s going on with RFK Jr. and his potential impact on the health of Americans and others.
apnews.com
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — a move that leading medical groups said would undermine protections against a half-dozen diseases.
The change is effective immediately, meaning that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will now recommend that all children get vaccinated against 11 diseases. What’s no longer broadly recommended is protection against flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis or RSV. Instead, protections against those diseases are only recommended for certain groups deemed high risk, or when doctors recommend them in what’s called “shared decision-making.”
Trump administration officials said the overhaul, a move long sought by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., won’t result in families who want the vaccines losing access to them, and said insurance will continue to pay. But medical experts said the decision creates confusion for parents and could increase preventable diseases.
Medical experts said Monday’s changes without what they said was public discussion or a transparent review of the data would put children at risk.
“Abandoning recommendations for vaccines that prevent influenza, hepatitis and rotavirus, and changing the recommendation for HPV without a public process to weigh the risks and benefits, will lead to more hospitalizations and preventable deaths among American children,” said Michael Osterholm of the Vaccine Integrity Project, based at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics said countries carefully consider vaccine recommendations based on levels of disease in their populations and their health systems.
“You can’t just copy and paste public health and that’s what they seem to be doing here,” said O’Leary. “Literally children’s health and children’s lives are at stake.”
www.nbcnews.com
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday announced an unprecedented overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule that recommends fewer shots to all children.
Under the change — effective immediately — the vaccine schedule will more closely resemble Denmark’s, recommending all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18 previously on the schedule.
Senior Health and Human Services Department officials said the changes are meant to restore trust in public health that spilled over from the Covid pandemic.
“The loss of trust during the pandemic not only affected the COVID-19 vaccine uptake. It also contributed to less adherence to the full CDC childhood immunization schedule, with lower rates of consensus vaccines such as measles, rubella, pertussis, and polio,” reads the scientific assessment the agency based its decision on.
The assessment said “there is a need for more and better science” on vaccines — though the new schedule doesn’t say there are specific vaccines children should not get.
Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a professor of global health and infectious diseases at Stanford University, said there was an “incredible lack of transparency” behind the new schedule.
“There are no data, no papers, no discussions at all that are cited in this quote-unquote exhaustive search. So we have no idea who made these decisions and why they were made now,” she said.
Dr. Jake Scott, an infectious diseases specialist at Stanford Medicine, said the change could have a dramatic effect on vaccine uptake.
“It’s really the most significant weakening of childhood vaccine recommendations, I would say, in modern American history,” he said.
In practice, however, not much will change for parents who want their children to continue to get all of the vaccines previously recommended. Insurance will continue to cover the shots.
“The best-case scenario is that nothing will change,” said Dr. David Margolius, the director of public health for the city of Cleveland. “The worst-case scenario is that this causes more confusion, more distrust, lower vaccination rates, and then just this trend of political parties and ideologies determining which vaccines people should get.”
There’s no “rigor or reason” to reduce the number of shots just because another country did it, Margolius said. “It just doesn’t make sense.”
Dr. Helen Chu, an infectious disease professor at the University of Washington, said in an email: “The abrupt change to the entire US childhood vaccine schedule is alarming, unnecessary, and will endanger the health of children in the United States.”
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RFK Jr is a clown, and a very dangerous clown:
truthout.org
The Department of Health and Human Services has cut millions in dollars in grants from a leading children’s health association after the group criticized Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s unscientific policies.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) was informed this week that the Trump administration was terminating seven grants awarded by federal agencies, The Washington Post first reported, jeopardizing initiatives on topics such as infant death prevention.
“The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families in communities across the United States,” said Mark Del Monte, AAP CEO and executive vice president, in a statement to the Washington Post.
“This vital work spanned multiple child health priorities, including reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, mental health, adolescent health, supporting children with birth defects, early identification of autism, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, among other topics,” Del Monte told the Post.
The group said it is considering legal action to challenge the cuts.
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One million children will die before reaching kindergarten age, due to this decision by RFK Jr.:
www.vox.com
Primarily through vaccines, which account for about 40 percent of the global drop in infant mortality over the last 50 years, representing 150 million lives saved. Once babies get extremely sick, it’s incredibly hard to get adequate care for them anywhere in the world, but we’ve largely prevented them from getting sick in the first place. Vaccines eradicated smallpox and dramatically reduced infant deaths from measles, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and tetanus. And vaccines not only make babies likelier to survive infancy but also make them healthier for the rest of their lives.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., unfortunately, disagrees.
President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services (HHS), a noted vaccine skeptic who reportedly does not really believe the scientific consensus that disease is caused by germs, recently announcedthe US will pull out of Gavi, an international alliance of governments and private funders (mainly the Gates Foundation) that works to ensure lifesaving vaccinations reach every child worldwide. His grounds? He thinks Gavi doesn’t worry enough about vaccine safety (he does not seem to acknowledge any safety concerns associated with the alternative — dying horribly from measles or tuberculosis).
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Federal mRNA funding cut is “the worst public health decision ever” made:
www.pbs.org
Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine development. MRNA technology was central in the battle against COVID and can be developed more quickly than traditional vaccines. Geoff Bennett discussed the implications with Dr. Michael Osterholm.
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For any good MAHA might have done with what, food dyes, it is actually just another example of the rejection of scientific expertise and medical science expertise, in 21st century America, MAHA is an attack on human knowledge!!! What the hey are we doing to ourselves. Will Kennedy bring back leeches and bleeding patients? The dumbing down of America continues apace under Trump and RFK Jr.
US cuts the number of vaccines recommended for every child, a move slammed by physicians
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — leaving other immunizations, such as flu shots, open to families to choose but without clear guidance.
apnews.com
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — a move that leading medical groups said would undermine protections against a half-dozen diseases.
The change is effective immediately, meaning that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will now recommend that all children get vaccinated against 11 diseases. What’s no longer broadly recommended is protection against flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis or RSV. Instead, protections against those diseases are only recommended for certain groups deemed high risk, or when doctors recommend them in what’s called “shared decision-making.”
Trump administration officials said the overhaul, a move long sought by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., won’t result in families who want the vaccines losing access to them, and said insurance will continue to pay. But medical experts said the decision creates confusion for parents and could increase preventable diseases.
Medical experts said Monday’s changes without what they said was public discussion or a transparent review of the data would put children at risk.
“Abandoning recommendations for vaccines that prevent influenza, hepatitis and rotavirus, and changing the recommendation for HPV without a public process to weigh the risks and benefits, will lead to more hospitalizations and preventable deaths among American children,” said Michael Osterholm of the Vaccine Integrity Project, based at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics said countries carefully consider vaccine recommendations based on levels of disease in their populations and their health systems.
“You can’t just copy and paste public health and that’s what they seem to be doing here,” said O’Leary. “Literally children’s health and children’s lives are at stake.”
RFK Jr. overhauls childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark's in unprecedented move
The new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18, including Covid, previously on the schedule.
www.nbcnews.com
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday announced an unprecedented overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule that recommends fewer shots to all children.
Under the change — effective immediately — the vaccine schedule will more closely resemble Denmark’s, recommending all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18 previously on the schedule.
Senior Health and Human Services Department officials said the changes are meant to restore trust in public health that spilled over from the Covid pandemic.
“The loss of trust during the pandemic not only affected the COVID-19 vaccine uptake. It also contributed to less adherence to the full CDC childhood immunization schedule, with lower rates of consensus vaccines such as measles, rubella, pertussis, and polio,” reads the scientific assessment the agency based its decision on.
The assessment said “there is a need for more and better science” on vaccines — though the new schedule doesn’t say there are specific vaccines children should not get.
Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a professor of global health and infectious diseases at Stanford University, said there was an “incredible lack of transparency” behind the new schedule.
“There are no data, no papers, no discussions at all that are cited in this quote-unquote exhaustive search. So we have no idea who made these decisions and why they were made now,” she said.
Dr. Jake Scott, an infectious diseases specialist at Stanford Medicine, said the change could have a dramatic effect on vaccine uptake.
“It’s really the most significant weakening of childhood vaccine recommendations, I would say, in modern American history,” he said.
In practice, however, not much will change for parents who want their children to continue to get all of the vaccines previously recommended. Insurance will continue to cover the shots.
“The best-case scenario is that nothing will change,” said Dr. David Margolius, the director of public health for the city of Cleveland. “The worst-case scenario is that this causes more confusion, more distrust, lower vaccination rates, and then just this trend of political parties and ideologies determining which vaccines people should get.”
There’s no “rigor or reason” to reduce the number of shots just because another country did it, Margolius said. “It just doesn’t make sense.”
Dr. Helen Chu, an infectious disease professor at the University of Washington, said in an email: “The abrupt change to the entire US childhood vaccine schedule is alarming, unnecessary, and will endanger the health of children in the United States.”
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RFK Jr is a clown, and a very dangerous clown:
HHS Cuts Children’s Health Grants After Pediatric Association Criticizes RFK Jr.
An internal HHS official flagged “identity-based language,” referencing a line discussing “racism and poverty.”…
truthout.org
The Department of Health and Human Services has cut millions in dollars in grants from a leading children’s health association after the group criticized Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s unscientific policies.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) was informed this week that the Trump administration was terminating seven grants awarded by federal agencies, The Washington Post first reported, jeopardizing initiatives on topics such as infant death prevention.
“The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families in communities across the United States,” said Mark Del Monte, AAP CEO and executive vice president, in a statement to the Washington Post.
“This vital work spanned multiple child health priorities, including reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, mental health, adolescent health, supporting children with birth defects, early identification of autism, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, among other topics,” Del Monte told the Post.
The group said it is considering legal action to challenge the cuts.
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One million children will die before reaching kindergarten age, due to this decision by RFK Jr.:
A million kids won’t live to kindergarten because of this disastrous decision
The world’s war on child death was going well. Then RFK Jr. came along.
www.vox.com
Primarily through vaccines, which account for about 40 percent of the global drop in infant mortality over the last 50 years, representing 150 million lives saved. Once babies get extremely sick, it’s incredibly hard to get adequate care for them anywhere in the world, but we’ve largely prevented them from getting sick in the first place. Vaccines eradicated smallpox and dramatically reduced infant deaths from measles, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and tetanus. And vaccines not only make babies likelier to survive infancy but also make them healthier for the rest of their lives.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., unfortunately, disagrees.
President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services (HHS), a noted vaccine skeptic who reportedly does not really believe the scientific consensus that disease is caused by germs, recently announcedthe US will pull out of Gavi, an international alliance of governments and private funders (mainly the Gates Foundation) that works to ensure lifesaving vaccinations reach every child worldwide. His grounds? He thinks Gavi doesn’t worry enough about vaccine safety (he does not seem to acknowledge any safety concerns associated with the alternative — dying horribly from measles or tuberculosis).
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Federal mRNA funding cut is “the worst public health decision ever” made:
Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says
Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine development. MRNA technology was central in the battle against COVID and can be developed more quickly...
www.pbs.org
Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine development. MRNA technology was central in the battle against COVID and can be developed more quickly than traditional vaccines. Geoff Bennett discussed the implications with Dr. Michael Osterholm.
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For any good MAHA might have done with what, food dyes, it is actually just another example of the rejection of scientific expertise and medical science expertise, in 21st century America, MAHA is an attack on human knowledge!!! What the hey are we doing to ourselves. Will Kennedy bring back leeches and bleeding patients? The dumbing down of America continues apace under Trump and RFK Jr.
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Mongoose
Well-Known Member
most other health experts in every other developed country in the world that also have better health outcomes than americans would disagree. Its pretty simple I didnt need 50 paragraphs to lay it out.How about we take an honest look at what’s going on with RFK Jr. and his potential impact on the health of Americans and others.
US cuts the number of vaccines recommended for every child, a move slammed by physicians
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — leaving other immunizations, such as flu shots, open to families to choose but without clear guidance.
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — a move that leading medical groups said would undermine protections against a half-dozen diseases.
The change is effective immediately, meaning that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will now recommend that all children get vaccinated against 11 diseases. What’s no longer broadly recommended is protection against flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis or RSV. Instead, protections against those diseases are only recommended for certain groups deemed high risk, or when doctors recommend them in what’s called “shared decision-making.”
Trump administration officials said the overhaul, a move long sought by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., won’t result in families who want the vaccines losing access to them, and said insurance will continue to pay. But medical experts said the decision creates confusion for parents and could increase preventable diseases.
Medical experts said Monday’s changes without what they said was public discussion or a transparent review of the data would put children at risk.
“Abandoning recommendations for vaccines that prevent influenza, hepatitis and rotavirus, and changing the recommendation for HPV without a public process to weigh the risks and benefits, will lead to more hospitalizations and preventable deaths among American children,” said Michael Osterholm of the Vaccine Integrity Project, based at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics said countries carefully consider vaccine recommendations based on levels of disease in their populations and their health systems.
“You can’t just copy and paste public health and that’s what they seem to be doing here,” said O’Leary. “Literally children’s health and children’s lives are at stake.”
RFK Jr. overhauls childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark's in unprecedented move
The new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18, including Covid, previously on the schedule.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday announced an unprecedented overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule that recommends fewer shots to all children.
Under the change — effective immediately — the vaccine schedule will more closely resemble Denmark’s, recommending all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18 previously on the schedule.
Senior Health and Human Services Department officials said the changes are meant to restore trust in public health that spilled over from the Covid pandemic.
“The loss of trust during the pandemic not only affected the COVID-19 vaccine uptake. It also contributed to less adherence to the full CDC childhood immunization schedule, with lower rates of consensus vaccines such as measles, rubella, pertussis, and polio,” reads the scientific assessment the agency based its decision on.
The assessment said “there is a need for more and better science” on vaccines — though the new schedule doesn’t say there are specific vaccines children should not get.
Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a professor of global health and infectious diseases at Stanford University, said there was an “incredible lack of transparency” behind the new schedule.
“There are no data, no papers, no discussions at all that are cited in this quote-unquote exhaustive search. So we have no idea who made these decisions and why they were made now,” she said.
Dr. Jake Scott, an infectious diseases specialist at Stanford Medicine, said the change could have a dramatic effect on vaccine uptake.
“It’s really the most significant weakening of childhood vaccine recommendations, I would say, in modern American history,” he said.
In practice, however, not much will change for parents who want their children to continue to get all of the vaccines previously recommended. Insurance will continue to cover the shots.
“The best-case scenario is that nothing will change,” said Dr. David Margolius, the director of public health for the city of Cleveland. “The worst-case scenario is that this causes more confusion, more distrust, lower vaccination rates, and then just this trend of political parties and ideologies determining which vaccines people should get.”
There’s no “rigor or reason” to reduce the number of shots just because another country did it, Margolius said. “It just doesn’t make sense.”
Dr. Helen Chu, an infectious disease professor at the University of Washington, said in an email: “The abrupt change to the entire US childhood vaccine schedule is alarming, unnecessary, and will endanger the health of children in the United States.”
———————————————————
RFK Jr is a clown, and a very dangerous clown:
HHS Cuts Children’s Health Grants After Pediatric Association Criticizes RFK Jr.
An internal HHS official flagged “identity-based language,” referencing a line discussing “racism and poverty.”…
The Department of Health and Human Services has cut millions in dollars in grants from a leading children’s health association after the group criticized Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s unscientific policies.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) was informed this week that the Trump administration was terminating seven grants awarded by federal agencies, The Washington Post first reported, jeopardizing initiatives on topics such as infant death prevention.
“The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families in communities across the United States,” said Mark Del Monte, AAP CEO and executive vice president, in a statement to the Washington Post.
“This vital work spanned multiple child health priorities, including reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, mental health, adolescent health, supporting children with birth defects, early identification of autism, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, among other topics,” Del Monte told the Post.
The group said it is considering legal action to challenge the cuts.
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One million children will die before reaching kindergarten age, due to this decision by RFK Jr.:
A million kids won’t live to kindergarten because of this disastrous decision
The world’s war on child death was going well. Then RFK Jr. came along.
Primarily through vaccines, which account for about 40 percent of the global drop in infant mortality over the last 50 years, representing 150 million lives saved. Once babies get extremely sick, it’s incredibly hard to get adequate care for them anywhere in the world, but we’ve largely prevented them from getting sick in the first place. Vaccines eradicated smallpox and dramatically reduced infant deaths from measles, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and tetanus. And vaccines not only make babies likelier to survive infancy but also make them healthier for the rest of their lives.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., unfortunately, disagrees.
President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services (HHS), a noted vaccine skeptic who reportedly does not really believe the scientific consensus that disease is caused by germs, recently announcedthe US will pull out of Gavi, an international alliance of governments and private funders (mainly the Gates Foundation) that works to ensure lifesaving vaccinations reach every child worldwide. His grounds? He thinks Gavi doesn’t worry enough about vaccine safety (he does not seem to acknowledge any safety concerns associated with the alternative — dying horribly from measles or tuberculosis).
—————————————————————————
Federal mRNA funding cut is “the worst public health decision ever” made:
Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says
Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine development. MRNA technology was central in the battle against COVID and can be developed more quickly...
Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine development. MRNA technology was central in the battle against COVID and can be developed more quickly than traditional vaccines. Geoff Bennett discussed the implications with Dr. Michael Osterholm.
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For any good MAHA might have done with what, food dyes, it is actually just another example of the rejection of scientific expertise and medical science expertise, in 21st century America, MAHA is an attack on human knowledge!!! What the hey are we doing to ourselves. Will Kennedy bring back leeches and bleeding patients? The dumbing down of America continues apace under Trump and RFK Jr.
Mongoose
Well-Known Member
If we have such great and amazing healthcare and health outcomes are where you want them why are you idiots crying for universal healthcare like the rest of the developed world? Democrats are too ****ing stupid to understand their own stupidity.How about we take an honest look at what’s going on with RFK Jr. and his potential impact on the health of Americans and others.
US cuts the number of vaccines recommended for every child, a move slammed by physicians
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — leaving other immunizations, such as flu shots, open to families to choose but without clear guidance.
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — a move that leading medical groups said would undermine protections against a half-dozen diseases.
The change is effective immediately, meaning that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will now recommend that all children get vaccinated against 11 diseases. What’s no longer broadly recommended is protection against flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis or RSV. Instead, protections against those diseases are only recommended for certain groups deemed high risk, or when doctors recommend them in what’s called “shared decision-making.”
Trump administration officials said the overhaul, a move long sought by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., won’t result in families who want the vaccines losing access to them, and said insurance will continue to pay. But medical experts said the decision creates confusion for parents and could increase preventable diseases.
Medical experts said Monday’s changes without what they said was public discussion or a transparent review of the data would put children at risk.
“Abandoning recommendations for vaccines that prevent influenza, hepatitis and rotavirus, and changing the recommendation for HPV without a public process to weigh the risks and benefits, will lead to more hospitalizations and preventable deaths among American children,” said Michael Osterholm of the Vaccine Integrity Project, based at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics said countries carefully consider vaccine recommendations based on levels of disease in their populations and their health systems.
“You can’t just copy and paste public health and that’s what they seem to be doing here,” said O’Leary. “Literally children’s health and children’s lives are at stake.”
RFK Jr. overhauls childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark's in unprecedented move
The new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18, including Covid, previously on the schedule.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday announced an unprecedented overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule that recommends fewer shots to all children.
Under the change — effective immediately — the vaccine schedule will more closely resemble Denmark’s, recommending all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18 previously on the schedule.
Senior Health and Human Services Department officials said the changes are meant to restore trust in public health that spilled over from the Covid pandemic.
“The loss of trust during the pandemic not only affected the COVID-19 vaccine uptake. It also contributed to less adherence to the full CDC childhood immunization schedule, with lower rates of consensus vaccines such as measles, rubella, pertussis, and polio,” reads the scientific assessment the agency based its decision on.
The assessment said “there is a need for more and better science” on vaccines — though the new schedule doesn’t say there are specific vaccines children should not get.
Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a professor of global health and infectious diseases at Stanford University, said there was an “incredible lack of transparency” behind the new schedule.
“There are no data, no papers, no discussions at all that are cited in this quote-unquote exhaustive search. So we have no idea who made these decisions and why they were made now,” she said.
Dr. Jake Scott, an infectious diseases specialist at Stanford Medicine, said the change could have a dramatic effect on vaccine uptake.
“It’s really the most significant weakening of childhood vaccine recommendations, I would say, in modern American history,” he said.
In practice, however, not much will change for parents who want their children to continue to get all of the vaccines previously recommended. Insurance will continue to cover the shots.
“The best-case scenario is that nothing will change,” said Dr. David Margolius, the director of public health for the city of Cleveland. “The worst-case scenario is that this causes more confusion, more distrust, lower vaccination rates, and then just this trend of political parties and ideologies determining which vaccines people should get.”
There’s no “rigor or reason” to reduce the number of shots just because another country did it, Margolius said. “It just doesn’t make sense.”
Dr. Helen Chu, an infectious disease professor at the University of Washington, said in an email: “The abrupt change to the entire US childhood vaccine schedule is alarming, unnecessary, and will endanger the health of children in the United States.”
———————————————————
RFK Jr is a clown, and a very dangerous clown:
HHS Cuts Children’s Health Grants After Pediatric Association Criticizes RFK Jr.
An internal HHS official flagged “identity-based language,” referencing a line discussing “racism and poverty.”…
The Department of Health and Human Services has cut millions in dollars in grants from a leading children’s health association after the group criticized Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s unscientific policies.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) was informed this week that the Trump administration was terminating seven grants awarded by federal agencies, The Washington Post first reported, jeopardizing initiatives on topics such as infant death prevention.
“The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families in communities across the United States,” said Mark Del Monte, AAP CEO and executive vice president, in a statement to the Washington Post.
“This vital work spanned multiple child health priorities, including reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, mental health, adolescent health, supporting children with birth defects, early identification of autism, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, among other topics,” Del Monte told the Post.
The group said it is considering legal action to challenge the cuts.
———————————————————————————————
One million children will die before reaching kindergarten age, due to this decision by RFK Jr.:
A million kids won’t live to kindergarten because of this disastrous decision
The world’s war on child death was going well. Then RFK Jr. came along.
Primarily through vaccines, which account for about 40 percent of the global drop in infant mortality over the last 50 years, representing 150 million lives saved. Once babies get extremely sick, it’s incredibly hard to get adequate care for them anywhere in the world, but we’ve largely prevented them from getting sick in the first place. Vaccines eradicated smallpox and dramatically reduced infant deaths from measles, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and tetanus. And vaccines not only make babies likelier to survive infancy but also make them healthier for the rest of their lives.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., unfortunately, disagrees.
President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services (HHS), a noted vaccine skeptic who reportedly does not really believe the scientific consensus that disease is caused by germs, recently announcedthe US will pull out of Gavi, an international alliance of governments and private funders (mainly the Gates Foundation) that works to ensure lifesaving vaccinations reach every child worldwide. His grounds? He thinks Gavi doesn’t worry enough about vaccine safety (he does not seem to acknowledge any safety concerns associated with the alternative — dying horribly from measles or tuberculosis).
—————————————————————————
Federal mRNA funding cut is “the worst public health decision ever” made:
Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says
Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine development. MRNA technology was central in the battle against COVID and can be developed more quickly...
Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine development. MRNA technology was central in the battle against COVID and can be developed more quickly than traditional vaccines. Geoff Bennett discussed the implications with Dr. Michael Osterholm.
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For any good MAHA might have done with what, food dyes, it is actually just another example of the rejection of scientific expertise and medical science expertise, in 21st century America, MAHA is an attack on human knowledge!!! What the hey are we doing to ourselves. Will Kennedy bring back leeches and bleeding patients? The dumbing down of America continues apace under Trump and RFK Jr.
Red
Well-Known Member
@Mongoose: “If we have such great and amazing healthcare and health outcomes are where you want them why are you idiots crying for universal healthcare like the rest of the developed world? Democrats are too ****ing stupid to understand their own stupidity.”
I believe avoiding financial hardship is the motivation behind the desire for universal healthcare. The above quote is notably stupid, even by your always remarkable standards of stupidity.
I believe avoiding financial hardship is the motivation behind the desire for universal healthcare. The above quote is notably stupid, even by your always remarkable standards of stupidity.
Mongoose
Well-Known Member
lol - ya that makes sense if you're a moron. Democrats want more affordable bad healthcare- "we want more affordable worse outcomes" compared to the rest of the developed world. "Our bad healthcare is too expensive, we need cheaper bad healthcare". That all we care about as democrats because we are ****ing brain dead cultists that cant think on our own.
It's red-tarded