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Worth also mentioning: they went out of their way to not give the full length of time for the comment period, essentially pretending that there were technical issues that delayed the meeting announcement.
#Bullshit. Fucking lies.
#covid #vaccines #RepublicanLies #conservativelies #conservatives #antivax #antivaxx #fda #uspol #vaccines #vaccineaccess #lies
@luckytran https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/114541689658662058
Nearly HALF of all children in the U.S. died by the age of 5 in the early 1800s. By the early 2000s, it was less than 1%.
What changed?
Scientific progress! Vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurization, chlorinated water, and the data to support regulations that would keep adulterants, pollutants and Germs out of the food and water supplies.
Now all of that is changing, thanks largely to the anti-science agenda of Trump and RFK Jr., as well as some trends that began before their tenure.
TB, which killed nearly 1 in 7 people in the U.S., is now relatively rare, thanks to antibiotics and screening. Though it's also making a comeback, with some multi-drug resistant strains. The WHO estimates that drug resistant super bugs could kill 10 million people a year by 2050 if urgent action isn't taken, something that is much less likely to happen in the US, with the slashing of science and research funding under Trump. However the problem precedes both Trump and RFK, stemming from years of overuse and misuse of antibiotics, primarily in animal agriculture, but also due to doctors misprescribing them for viral infections and due to patients not completing their course of treatment.
Smallpox, which killed 80% of all children it infected, no longer exists, thanks to vaccines. However, measles was gone, too, until antivax hysteria over the past 20 years caused many parents to forego vaccinations for their kids. Consequently, we're now seeing an uptick in measles, mumps, rubella and pertussis. As well as polio in many parts of the world.
Pasteurization kills many germs that spread through milk, including diphtheria, typhoid, E coli, salmonella, listeria, etc. It also kills bird flu. But many Americans, including RFKJr., keep pushing the false notion that raw milk is safer and healthier. Pasteurization, named for the scientist Louis Pasteur (who, incidently, had dyslexia and dysgraphia), is believed to have saved millions of lives, not only by keeping milk free of deadly pathogens, but also by extending its shelf life, thus providing greater access to this nutrient-rich food for children.
Federal regulations and monitoring have reduced the amount of adulterants, toxins and pollutants in the food and water supply, significantly reducing mortality. In the 1800s, tens of thousands died from cholera in the US, including Presidents Polk & Taylor, due mostly to fecal contamination of the water supply. Though water-chlorination is not currently under attack by RFK, he is calling for an end to fluoridation, which has helped keep millions of low income kids from getting cavities and losing their teeth. And RFK has been bragging about swimming with his grandkids in contaminated rivers, as if to condition us to embrace further deregulation and attacks on public health.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-all-time-child-mortality-rate/
"Their approach to immunization policy is less extreme, more engaged with evidence, and more academic than Kennedy’s. And precisely because these officials’ perspectives carry a sheen of legitimacy that most of the secretary’s usual allies lack, they could be more effective than Kennedy at undermining America’s protections against disease."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/05/hhs-anti-vax/682831/
Oh hey... Found a guy...
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It's not just the US.
1400 measles cases, 100 hospitalizations, just in Ontario, Canada, overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated.
https://macleans.ca/society/health/measles-is-just-the-start/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Testifying before the Senate, #RFKJr doubles down on #antivax nonsense. #PublicHealthMalpractice
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/rfk-testify-congress-hhs-layoffs-measles-outbreak
"The extreme anti-vax movement is now tiptoeing around the heart of gov-ernment. The people who say their freedoms were denied during the pandemic want to deny a basic freedom to all Albertans - the right to be vaccinated."
Wisdom: avoiding disease-ridden Alberta this summer
Integrity: boycotting the fascist separatists attacking Canadians
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/calgary-herald/20240810/281522231384482
This administration will go down in history one which so despised the people it was elected to govern that it put the worst possible people in charge of agencies meant to benefit the population!
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Kennedy, the nation’s top health official and longtime vaccine skeptic, is responding to the growing measles threat by undermining vaccines and promoting bogus cures and “quack doctors.” Kennedy’s been especially busy lately as he:
Promoted unproven measles treatments, including Vitamin A and antibiotics;
Updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention treatment guidance to include those treatments;
Encouraged parents to “do their own research”—aka questionable internet searches;
Changed long-standing vaccine testing policy;
Falsely claimed vaccines aren’t safety tested—they are;
Repeated disinformation about MMR vaccine ingredients; and
Argued measles is getting too much attention.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-measles
But unvaccinated infected children are welcome in schools, locker rooms, hospitals, old folks homes, etc, with not even whispers of misfeasance.
!["Were he granted exclusive possession and
ownership of Charlie and followed through with
his anti-vaccine approach to Charlie's care,
this nonfeasance/misfeasance could cause
illness or death not only to Charlie, but to
animals and humans which come into contact
with him," Demong wrote.
"It is not only in Charlie's best interest, but it
alleviates the potential concern that [his]
approach to dog care might create serious
health hazards to other animals and to people
who encounter him."](https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/501/648/918/010/702/original/b225af153b4ba1f1.jpeg "\"Were he granted exclusive possession and
ownership of Charlie and followed through with
his anti-vaccine approach to Charlie's care,
this nonfeasance/misfeasance could cause
illness or death not only to Charlie, but to
animals and humans which come into contact
with him,\" Demong wrote.
\"It is not only in Charlie's best interest, but it
alleviates the potential concern that [his]
approach to dog care might create serious
health hazards to other animals and to people
who encounter him.\"")
Mental illness apparently can be broadcast. Might the same be true for therapy?
# # #
"...
Even before her nomination, some anti-vax influencers had grown suspicious of Means and her brother, Calley, a wellness entrepreneur now working with H.H.S. They saw the pair as sketchy parvenus who were diverting their movement’s attention from vaccines to food, perhaps at the behest of shadowy outside forces. After the Means siblings appeared ...
..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/casey-means-maha.html
#AntiVax #Psychoanalysis
Karen out here #antivax but she on that Gardasil
Iltapaskisto uutisoi, että sosiaali- ja terveysvaliokunta on kutsunut hallituspuolueiden esityksestä kuultavaksi tunnettuja antivaxxereita kertomaan näkemyksensä WHO:n terveyssäännöstön muutoksista. Kokoomuksen valiokuntaan kuuluvat lääkärikansanedustajat kieltäytyvät kommentoimasta ja sen sijaan kritisoivat opposiota siitä, että valiokunnan asioita on vuodettu medialle. Syvällä uidaan nyt.
Doom Scrolling Deluxe
As bad as the first Trump presidency was, it didn't come close to the amount of death caused by Bush Jr, with his war on terror, which brought him within the top 10 deadliest regimes in history.
But Trump 2.0 is set to demolish the horrific records of Stalin, Mao and Hitler. Consider that his slashing of USAID funding, alone, could cause 500,000 deaths, just in Africa, and just from loss of HIV medication. At least a million kids could starve to death from loss of food aid.
The gutting of NOAA could result in hundreds of thousands of more deaths. And how many will die because of vaccine hysteria, or the lack of available vaccines, or the re-emergence of deadly plagues like measles, polio, all thanks to RFK Jr's anti scientific policies? Or all the cancer patients whose lives will be shortened due to inavailability of new medications because of the slashed science funding?
And this doesn't even take into account the deaths from current and future wars that the US actively supports through military aid and political cover. The ongoing genocide in Gaza. Yemen. Sudan. Possible nuclear war between India and Pakistan, both heavily armed by the US.
If you've got the stomach, read the following article and play: Which Cabinet Secretary Will Kill The Most People?
https://www.splinter.com/which-cabinet-secretary-will-kill-the-most-people
Vaccine trust is shifting. Now Republicans are increasingly trusting the government on vaccines, while democrats are trending in the opposite direction.
Alarmingly, barely half of Americans are confident in the safety of the covid vax, which maybe doesn't matter since a new one might not be available in time for next fall's surge, thanks to RFK Jr's anti scientific new rules requiring placebo controlled testing of already tested and safe vaccines that have been optimized for current strains.
And, of course, this increasing distrust of the covid vaccine can be directly linked to RFKJr's misinformation and policies, like his false claims that the covid vaccine was not sufficiently tested, and that it requires additional, unethical placebo- controlled testing.
