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Good news, folks! mRNA vaccines don't cause "turbo cancers" — first, because those don't exist, and second, because mRNA technology has been studied for decades and large population studies have found no increased cancer risk at all following vaccination. Here's more from @TheConversationUS on how the rapid spread of vaccine misinformation is threatening the development of this potentially transformative technology.
Appointment with my doctor confirmed for tomorrow.
#Vaccination time for #Covid & #Shingles.
(I’ve never had #Chickenpox but I read the Shingles vax is a possible #dementia fix. Maybe? Or it might slow dementia)
Jonathan Cohn reports on grandparents now fighting to protect their grandchildren by urging their parents to have them vaccinated. As he notes, those of us who are older lived through years in which there was no vaccine for illnesses that can now be prevented by vaccination, and we saw the consequences of those illnesses.
#vaccines #vaccination #antivaxxers #children #measles #boomers #GenZ #millennials
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-horrified-grandparents-fighting-for-vaccines
Today in Labor History February 20, 1905: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. There were lots of problems early on with the vaccine. For one, they reused needles, causing the transfer of syphilis from infected to uninfected people. They also had problems with bacterial contamination of the vaccine that made some people sick. On the other hand, because of the global mandatory vaccination program, the disease was eradicated in 1977, the only human disease to be completely wiped out. Keep in mind that as recently as the mid-1950s, over 2 million people were dying annually, worldwide, from the disease.
With respect to personal freedom, the Court ruled in Jacobson that individual liberty is not absolute and is subject to the state’s use of police power. Consequently, Jacobson has been invoked in other Supreme Court cases to justify police power. The ruling led to a mobilization of the anti-vaccination movement and the creation of the Anti-Vaccination League of America. The Jacobson ruling was later invoked to support the eugenicist forced sterilization of people with intellectual disabilities (Buck v Bell, 1927); the federal partial abortion ban (Gonzales v Carhart, 2007); drug testing of students (Veronica School District v Acton, 1995); and, most recently, COVID mitigation mandates, like face masks and stay-at-home orders.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #smallpox #vaccination #publichealth #vaccinemandates #liberty #freedom #SCOTUS #publichealth #antivax
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Victorian anti-vax cartoon, showing a man in a white wig, with long nose, vaccinating a very upset man in a white white, with flushed cheeks and nose and red blotches on his face.
As if to prove the World Health Organisation right, there is now a growing cluster of measles infections in Enfield in London - vaccine scepticism has been growing in London for years & now the level of vaccination is low enough to see an outbreak like this.
Its a classic effect of medical misinformation, with parents' mistaken anxiety about the children's wellbeing, now putting their children at risk from the return of measles.
"The so-called 'March for Life' has given us one more gift of irony following its 2026 convening: a measles outbreak in Washington, D.C.! The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the 'March for Life' rally, and other parts of D.C. were confirmed measles exposure sites as of February 7."
~ Mary Ann Montgomery
#measles #ProLife #children #vaccination #MarchforLife
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https://theoverreachmonitor.substack.com/p/overreach-weekly-enough-playing-god
"People can protect themselves from the highly contagious virus with the MMR vaccine, which provides 97% protection. The vaccine is first administered around 12-15 months of age, making babies extremely vulnerable to measles. So, an outbreak at the 'March for Life' suggests that many attendees were not vaccinated."
"How can you be 'pro-life' while endangering public health, especially for infants and children? Much like the false statistics they often reference, the math is not adding up."
Researchers identified that specific cross-reactive #antibodies acquired from seasonal #influenza exposure or #vaccination target the conserved "stem" region of the avian influenza A (#H5N1 ) virus, providing a baseline level of protection against the disease.
#Virology #Immunology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/vir02102601.html
Several of the panelists have said — contrary to scientific consensus — that they believe the #Covid shots are dangerous & should be taken off the market.
In an interview with The NYT, Dr. Robert Malone, one of the panelists, claimed that the #FDA was “hiding” data on the risks of Covid #vaccination & had refused to share it despite multiple requests.
#Trump #law #policy #HealthInsurance #PublicHealth #health #vaccines #medicine #science #ConspiracyTheories #RFKJr
#Vaccination is good, part 968,442. Would someone please tell #RFKJr? https://www.vox.com/health/477761/shingles-vaccine-shot-dementia-anti-aging
Measles cases are rising in South Carolina — but medical professionals say the MMR vaccine is available right now and remains the strongest protection. Protect yourself, and help protect the people around you who can’t be vaccinated.
#Measles #MeaslesOutbreak #PublicHealth #VaccinesSaveLives #Vaccines #Vaccination #VaccinesWork
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Photo of a healthcare worker vaccinating a child while a woman holds the child on her lap. Over the image is a large yellow headline about measles vaccination in South Carolina, plus a smaller white subheadline and the WHN footer.
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South Carolina medical professionals say the measles vaccine is available right now— and they want the community to use it.
Health leaders say vaccine hesitancy is still a major issue — and they’re working to understand why some people remain unvaccinated as cases keep rising.
The World Health Network is a network devoted to global compassion—working together to inspire collective action through science for a safer, healthier world.
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Dark graphic with a large yellow quote recommending measles vaccination, attributed to a South Carolina pharmacist. Smaller white text explains South Carolina Department of Public Health MMR guidance. A partially visible vaccine vial appears in the lower right.
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“The vaccine is available right now and I recommend that as many people that can get the vaccine that are, have no proof of immunity, should get the vaccine.”
– Pharmacist Prital Mehta at Prime Family Pharmacy in Rock Hill
The South Carolina Department of Public Health recommends that children receive their first and second doses between ages 1 and 17, while adults should be vaccinated based on their age, needs, and profession. Doctors typically advise giving the first dose at 12–15 months, followed by a second dose at 4–6 years old.
(On vial, partially visible): MMR / Measles Mumps / Rubella / Vaccine / 20 ml / RX 0…
The World Health Network is a network devoted to global compassion—working together to inspire collective action through science for a safer, healthier world.
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Getting vaccinated helps protect people who can’t get vaccinated.
Some individuals can’t safely receive the MMR vaccine, including pregnant people and/or immunocompromised people. That’s why doctors emphasize community immunization: when more people are protected, it reduces spread and helps shield vulnerable people from being exposed.
Public health officials say vaccination is the best tool to prevent the outbreak from spreading further.
The World Health Network is a network devoted to global compassion—working together to inspire collective action through science for a safer, healthier world.
Oh, no!
CNN video of the visits by two Congresspeople to the facility showed the Congressmen sharing info from the #Dilley child psychologists that "many" of the children at the facility were "sleeping a lot." The facility psycholgist attributed it to depression.
But video of the five-year-old #LiamRamos -- taken while he was still being held at the facility-- showed a child who was not merely sleeping, but was nearly unconscious. He was non-responsive, either due to being drugged or feverish.
FYI: A common symptom of #Measles -- a symptom which happens prior to any skin rash-- is usually days of fever, excessive sleep, and general lethargy. (I'm old enough to remember the Measles.)
Today, that tired-eyed five-year-old was on a plane and taken back to #Minnesota .
I'm very glad he's gone home, but I would bet good money that entire plane was exposed to Measles.
#Vaccination #Vaccines #DilleyTexas #DilleyDetentionFacility #MeaslesOutbreak
Nice, measles risk level map for the US. Shows where people are undervaccinated.
https://abcotvdata.github.io/us-vaccination-map/
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Map showing the Us and vaccination rates
From June 2025:
I don't trust large language model (#LLM) AIs: They're trained to sound plausible without regard for accuracy, ie, generate bullshit.
If you can handle that "spicy" description, please read this essay by @researchfairy, describing how LLMs can be used to deliberately weaponize #SystematicReview articles. Want a topic review that will completely plausibly support your controversial viewpoint? Say, you want to support raw milk or decry #vaccination ?
#COVID #covid19 #longcovid #pandemic #maskup #flu #fluseason #vaccines #vaccination #publichealth #science
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Facebook post from Sharon Astyk:
Reading parenting groups (which I do to get a sense of what people who don't bury themselves in this stuff think) has a very medieval feel right now.
1/3 of posts are about illness, and here are some things people are recommending for flu/covid/rsv (most of them have no idea what they have and no intention of finding out.)
- Onion poultice on feet
- Ivermectin
- Ice in your socks
- For God's sake don't ask any doctor
- Don't take any vaccines
- Essential oils
Don't get me wrong, I think it is incredibly gross to criticize people for using traditional treatments in a society where serious diseases like covid and flu usually get nothing in the way of supportive assistance, and I use herbal remedies. But the sheer number of people who are sick who are absolutely sure that onions on their feet will fix their "cold" seems...weird and archaic.
Also in the same group, many women describing long covid symptoms (exhaustion, brain fog, POTS, etc...) as purely hormonal and wondering why their estrogen isn't working.
#PamBondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified #Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases
Dr. #KirkMoore had been on trial for five days, accused of falsifying #COVID19 #vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses.
The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty on charges
US AG Pam Bondi had ordered #Utah prosecutors to drop all charges, abruptly ending his 2.5 year court battle.
https://www.propublica.org/article/pam-bondi-fake-covid-vaccine-cards-kirk-moore
Judd Legum reports that 111 people in South Carolina now have measles, with 254 in quarantine, including 43 children. Infections are accelerating. ␁
Measles were declared eliminated from the US in 2000. Vaccination now would protect people, since vaccination within 72 hours of exposure prevents infection.
But RFKJr's response to the situation in South Carolina: total sielnce.
Total silence as he tries to inject doubt about the efficacy of vaccines by spreading lies about them and says that it's very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person and cod liver oil is the best way to treat measles….
RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/115714727662725770
NEWSFLASH: #Vaccination is good.
The U.S. CDC's vaccine advisory committee has voted to remove the universal recommendation for hepatitis B vaccine at birth. @Independent explains more about the transmission and seriousness of the virus and the rationale behind the universal recommendation.
#Health #Science #Medicine #Vaccination #HepatitisB #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration
#Massachusetts to Bobby Brainworm: Screw you, we're going to keep recommending all newborns get a life-saving #vaccination
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/massachusetts-bobby-brainworm-screw-you-were-going-keep-recommending
#KirkMilhoan, a pediatric cardiologist & critic of #COVID #vaccination who recently took over as chair of the influential vaccine panel, said members meeting Thursday & Friday are broadly scrutinizing #vaccines recommended for #children. The wide-ranging discussions on the timing of vaccines & ingredients could signal major changes to how children in the #US are vaccinated [& paid for], marking the latest flash point in an accelerating reshaping of #immunization policy under #RFKJr.
Today in Labor History November 30, 1803: The Balmis Expedition left Spain to vaccinate millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines. The mission lasted from 1803 to 1806. The Spanish brought smallpox to the Americas, decimating the indigenous populations. Edward Jenner pioneered the vaccine in 1798. Variolation had already been in use for centuries in Africa, China and India, but was less safe and effective. At the time of the Balmis Expedition, about 400,000 Europeans died each year from smallpox, which is caused by the Variola virus. And it was the cause of one-third of all cases of blindness in Europe. In the 1770s, a smallpox epidemic wiped out 30% of the Indigenous peoples of the Puget Sound region. And overall, some historians estimate that smallpox wiped out over 90% of all indigenous people of the Americas, in one of the largest genocides in history.
Balmis brought 22 orphaned boys on the expedition, whom he infected with cowpox, to use as carriers of the disease. Infection with live cowpox, which was much milder than smallpox, gave lifelong immunity to the deadlier disease. In Cuba, he picked up three enslaved girls to use as additional carriers.
The Balmis expedition was both the first international vaccination program ever and the first international public health campaign. It was certainly not the last. The campaign to wipe out smallpox was ultimately successful in 1980, when the disease was declared eradicated. The WHO smallpox eradication program cost hundreds of millions of dollars and involved hundreds of thousands of people to reach the most remote villages in the world. The U.S. was the largest contributor to the program, but has recouped that investment every 26 days since in terms of money no longer spent on smallpox vaccinations and in the costs of incidence.
The last known case of smallpox was in a journalist from the UK, who most likely contracted the virus from a local research facility. Since then, it has become impossible to contract the virus naturally, since there is no longer any virus circulating in any human population, the first and only human virus to reach this status. For this reason, they stopped giving the smallpox vaccine to people, since the chances of dying from the disease are now 0%, which is lower than the extremely low risk of dying from the vaccine. It is also the reason the WHO recommended destroying all remaining laboratory stocks of the virus (i.e., to prevent a lab leak and the reintroduction of the deadly virus). All known supplies were, in fact, destroyed, except for two remaining stockpiles: one in the USSR (now Russia) and one in the CDC in the U.S. The WHO also bans the genetic engineering of the Variola virus. However, in 2002, researchers at NIH have synthesized Vaccinia virus, a close relative of Variola. In 2016, researcher synthesized horsepox, which had previously been extinct.
As with the covid vaccine, there was intense resistance to early smallpox vaccination programs. And as with vaccine resistance today, much of it was based on ignorance and conspiracy theories. The idea of scoring the flesh and introducing lymph from an infected animal seemed unsanitary. Some felt it was against “god’s will” since it was combining animal with human. Others were skeptical of its efficacy, believing the disease was caused by decay in the atmosphere, rather than germs that one could be immunized against. Or they simply were ignorant of how immunity worked and couldn’t understand how the immune system could be trained to block germs from making them sick. And there were those who opposed compulsory vaccination as a violation of their privacy rights. Anti-vaccination leagues grew in the UK and U.S. in the 1800s following compulsory smallpox vaccination laws. However, unlike Covid and Influenza, vaccination against Variola conferred nearly 100% lifelong immunity to the deadly disease, preventing both illness and death, as well as the spread of the disease.
#vaccine #vaccination #publichealth #genocide #indigenous #smallpox #spain #colonialism #slavery #exploitation #consent #who #cdc #covid
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An 1802 cartoon by James Gillray of the early controversy surrounding Edward Jenner's vaccination procedure, showing his cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine causing cattle to emerge from patients. By James Gillray - Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-3147 (color film copy transparency), archival TIFF version (4 MB), converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2.4.5, image quality 88., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2289666
The director of the #FDA’s #vaccine division said in a memo to agency staff on Friday that a review had found that at least 10 children had died “after & because of” getting a #Covid #vaccination.
Dr. Vinay Prasad, the director, suggested in the memo that the deaths were related to myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle.
#PublicHealth #Health #vaccines #science #medicine #policy #law #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #USpol
Dr. #RalphAbraham was appointed as #Louisiana’s surgeon general in 2024.
At the #CDC, Abraham will be the highest ranked official with a medical degree. The agency does not have a permanent director & the acting director, Jim O’Neill, is a former biotech exec.
As a top #health official, Abraham halted the state health dept’s mass #vaccination campaigns.
#CDC #HHS #PublicHealth #Health #vaccines #science #medicine #policy #law #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics
…Under his “leadership”, #Louisiana’s #health dept waited 2 months! to alert residents about a #WhoopingCough #outbreak in the state that had caused 2 #deaths. Health depts typically quickly alert the public about outbreaks & set up mass #vaccination campaigns.
Dr. Nirav Shah, the #CDC’s principal deputy director for 2 yrs before resigning this year, called Dr. #RalphAbraham “#unqualified” for the post & said when he learned that he had been appointed, “My jaw hit the ground.”
Once, #CDC was respected the world over as a leading #medical body.
Not any longer.
What will happen when a worse #pandemic than #COVID19 inevitably occurs?
I feel so sad about what the #US has become now, and it's getting worse.
"Breaking News: The CDC quietly appointed Dr. Ralph Lee #Abraham, who has been critical of #vaccines, as its second in command. During the #Covid pandemic, he promoted discredited treatments like #ivermectin and, as #Louisiana’s #surgeon general, halted the state’s mass #vaccination campaign."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/health/cdc-ralph-lee-abraham-vaccines.html
Paging #BillCassidy
#CDC Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of #Vaccines as Second in Command
During the #Covid19 #pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted #discredited treatments like ivermectin &, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, HALTED the state’s mass #vaccination campaign.
#PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #law #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #SocialCleansing #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/health/cdc-ralph-lee-abraham-vaccines.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
"Rates of #pertussis, also known as #WhoopingCough, are surging in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country.
"The outbreaks are fueled by falling #vaccination rates, fading immunity, and delays in public health tracking systems, according to interviews with state and federal health officials."
#RFKJr must be so proud. https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/publichealth/118629
Screw McBrainWorm's CDC - we've got the #Boston Public Health Commission
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/screw-mcbrainworms-cdc-weve-got-boston-public-health-commission
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Boston Public Health Commission: For reliable, trustworthy information on vaccines, DO NOT VISIT CDC.GOV
Rather than get mired in the thought-terminating arguments around political parties or political factions, though, I think we'd do well to reflect on what sorts of other ways of thinking feed into this one: the measured life; standardized testing; the internet of things (sensors); tracking apps of various kinds; electronic health records; data science as a profession and Big Data generally; predictive modeling; generative AI and other optimization-oriented or productivity-promising technology. All of these function to render life as an object of knowledge in one way or another. All of them trace their origins through eugenics and the patterns of thought that led to it, and all of them threaten to enable and enhance further eugenic thinking. This is not to say these things are always all bad; this is meant to be a reflection on what exactly they're for.
Why read the number of steps your FitBit told you you took today, unless there were some sense in which you want your future self to be better than your present self? It's not an accident that this is called "physical fitness", "fitness" being the Darwinian concept describing which organisms should survive. Why subject children to standardized testing unless there were some belief it made them better students? To what end tends to be left out. Why adopt a technology meant to improve productivity, unless you're of the belief that improvement (optimization) were even possible?
Generally speaking, if one is able to bring oneself to believe that a human being is made better by a data-informed technical intervention, isn't one playing the same game as these anti-autism anti-vaxxers, just with different terminology? If your answer to this provocation is that your data is better than theirs or that you're more aligned with reality than they are--some variation of "the science is on our side"--you've ceded the territory: this is more of the same optimization logic that brought us to this point to begin with. I think we have no choice but to do better than this.
That's my reflection anyway.
#USPol #autism #vaccination #vaccines #antivax #eugenics #BigData #AI #PredictiveModeling #DataScience #science