Search results for tag #vaccines
New feature on next generation Covid vax: Which vaccines are advancing the most?
I highlight 3 in mid- to late-stage trials, with manufacturing partners/plans—including a "universal" Covid vax & a mucosal one—and another 6 vaccines.
Plus more clinical trial results & 10 new preclinical reports.
Now @PLOS
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/04/02/accelerating-development-for-some-nextgen-covid-vaxes-update-no-39/
The Vaccines in America Town Hall meeting is today at 12 PM EDT!
Register now: https://necsi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/LqamRmnjTdSPfNgax2foMw
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Poster with light gray background. Large black headline: “TOWN HALL”. Pink subheading: “Vaccines in America”. Black rounded banner with white text: “THURSDAY APRIL 2 | 12PM EDT/9AM PDT”. Below, black text reads: “Join us for a live Town Hall with Eric Feigl-Ding and Nicholas Bertram as we break down recent changes to U.S. vaccine policy and what they could mean for public health.” At the bottom are two circular headshots. Left: Eric Feigl-Ding. Right: Nicholas Bertram. Their names appear below their photos: “Eric Feigl-Ding” and “Nicholas Bertram”.
"An explosion of reported measles cases in Texas’ federal detention facilities broke through to the public last month, infecting at least four El Paso residents who worked in one of the centers and potentially exposing the highly contagious disease to the wider population, according to emails obtained by The Texas Tribune through record requests."
#PublicHealth #measles #outbreak #vaccines #immunizations #immigration #ICE #DHS #detention
In February 2021, a town in Brazil showed up for a groundbreaking whole-of-town randomized Covid vaccine trial, providing evidence of population effects of mass vaccination in a pandemic.
My latest @PLOS post digs into this exciting precedent, and why it matters so much:
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/03/28/a-unique-pandemic-control-trial/
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety.
This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.
http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #RFKJr #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Vaccines #Data #Science #Research #Model
RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market.
History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Vaccines #Children #History #Science #RFKJr
From the lawyer who beat #RFKJr yesterday: "When rules governing #vaccines change without evidence-based processes, the consequences are not abstract. They show up in pediatric clinics, emergency departments, and #PublicHealth surveillance reports. They show up as preventable infections, outbreaks that ripple through schools and communities, and parents forced to navigate uncertainty about what should be a stable, science-based standard of care."
> Meet the Horrified Grandparents Fighting for #Vaccines. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-horrified-grandparents-fighting-for-vaccines
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
We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming
The US eliminated measles in 2000, but the disease is once again circulating.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/we-study-pandemics-and-the-resurgence-of-measles-is-a-grim-sign-of-whats-coming/#measles #science #syndication #vaccines
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SEMINOLE, TEXAS - FEBRUARY 27: Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. Eighty cases of measles have been reported in Gaines county with one death reported. (Photo by Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images)
"The coronavirus wasn’t the only epidemic to hit the United States in the past decade. Americans are also facing a bizarre epidemic of gullibility and cynicism—gullicism, if you need a portmanteau—that is drawing people into a world of conspiracism and falsehoods, one where facts are drowned out by a cacophony of extremely loud and wrong voices."
#gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid
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"Reliable information is both more available and harder to find than ever—and those who spread misinformation have been rewarded with positions of power, platforms they can exploit to further pollute the information environment. ...
The spread of anti-vax conspiracy theories is just another example of the gullicism that defines our age."
#gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
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RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/116200640492149003
Brought to you by the "My ignorance is as good as your knowledge", "It's a conspiracy to sell vaccine" and "It's God's will" crowds:
Noting that "to be an anti-vaxxer, one must be simultaneously credulous and distrustful—credulous of hucksters, and distrustful about empiricism," Adam Serwer coins the term "gullicist" to describe many Americans of the post-Covid Trump era — entirely skeptical of science, documentation, research, entirely gullible when it comes to hucksters and charlatans peddling nonsense.
#gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism
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This Doctor-Senator Who Backed RFK Jr. Now Faces a Fight for His Job — And His Legacy
A year after Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, warily cast the vote ensuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ascension to Health and Human Services secretary, ...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/bill-cassidy-rfk-jr-confirmation-vaccines-hepatitis-b-hhs-senate-primary-louisiana/#cdc #childrens-health #hhs #louisiana #misinformation #public-health #states #trump-administration #u.s.-congress #vaccines
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This Doctor-Senator Who Backed RFK Jr. Now Faces a Fight for His Job — And His Legacy
"In a recent and timely report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors detailed the case of a 7-year-old boy who died from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a delayed and almost universally fatal neurological complication of measles."
#measles #Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #SouthCarolina #children #healthcare #science
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Can you imagine how devastating it must be to be the developer of vaccines — sometimes called the “godfather of vaccines" — and see what's happening now?
A lovely story about Stanley Plotkin, who deserves many thanks from all of us.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/stanley-plotkin-profile-godfather-of-vaccines-worried/
h/t @HelenBranswell
From NBC News.com: Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted.
News-packed update on nextgen Covid vaccines this month at my @PLOS blog:
- Phase 2 results for a self-amplifying mRNA vaccine from Japan with a phase 3 trial recently closed off
- Preclinical results for an intranasal "universal" vaccine that provided some protection from coronaviruses, H1N1 flu, some bacterial infections, and an asthma allergen
- Opportunities to participate in intranasal vaccine trials in Finland and the US
And much more:
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/03/01/progress-for-universal-vaccine-more-nextgen-covid-vax-news-update-no-38/
One of the oldest and most noxious anti-vaccine talking points, a true Point Refuted a Thousand Times (PRATT), is to disingenuously wonder “Why should you worry about my unvaccinated child if vaccines work so well?” However, now that anti-vaxxers have power and are smelling blood, they are the ones worrying about whether or not strangers are vaccinated. Today the tables have turned, and I am forced to ask “Why should you worry about my vaccinated child if being anti-vaccine works so well?” #PublicHealth #vaccines https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/authoritarianmedicalfreedom/
"People who get measles now may be at increased risk of infection by essentially all other pathogens that they would otherwise be well protected against. After measles, these individuals have to embark on a yearslong and risk-filled recovery of re-infections and exposures to build back up the protective shields they previously had."
~ Michael Mina
"CNN is reporting that the United States has already surpassed 1,100 measles cases this year. As of February 26, the CDC counted 1,136 cases in just the first eight weeks. That is about six times what we would normally see in an entire year. Last year was already the worst in decades with nearly 2,300 cases, the highest total since 1991 and far above anything seen since measles was declared eliminated in 2000."
~ Mary Trump
"Three people died last year, two children in Texas and one adult in New Mexico. All were unvaccinated. About 96 percent of this year’s cases are among people who have not received the recommended MMR vaccine doses. More than 80 percent are children and teenagers. About one in four cases involves children under five.
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said:"
“'That’s in that range of one to three deaths per thousand cases. So can we expect another death? Yes. I think we’re getting there where we can expect another death and it is unconscionable. When more people are choosing not to vaccinate their children, you’re going to see more disease, more suffering, more hospitalization, and more death.'"
"Over coffee at a Starbucks just outside Austin, Texas, Del Bigtree told me he wants his teenage son to catch polio. Measles, too. He’s considered driving his unvaccinated family to South Carolina, which is in the midst of a historic outbreak, so that they can all be exposed. He prefers pertussis—whooping cough—to the pertussis vaccine, which he later described to me as a 'crime against children'.”
~ Tom Bartlett
#vaccines #measles #polio #pertussis #RFKJr #Trump
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/02/del-bigtree-pro-infection-polio-measles/686092/
Vaccination is a subject close to my heart as I have a suppressed immune system and worry about being infected by others which has happened to me with Covid. I live a somewhat sheltered life as a result.
While respecting personal choice, I do wonder if anti-vaxxers also decline all medicines as being “unsafe”?
Quid Pro Quo?
Just to add insult to injury (to the Nazis),
The couple who invented #mRNA #vaccines are #Turkish #immigrants
Truth be told.
#vaccinessavelives #vaccines #antivaxxers #science #medicine #ConspiracyTheories
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Dr. Lucky Tran posted the following:
The “problem” with vaccines?
They so effective at
preventing deaths that they
create generations of people
that question whether disease
was a problem in the first
place because they have
never experienced the horrors
of a world without vaccines.
"Since late January, the schoolboy [Ethan Moran Lopez] has been confined to a hospital bed with measles encephalitis, a complication that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain.
'He's pretty much as if he was paralyzed,' his devastated father, 41, told The Independent in a phone interview from his son’s hospital bedside."
~ Rhian Lubin
"'God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless' [said his mother Kristina].
'And we wouldn't change it any other way,' the mom continued.’ If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have given my son the vaccine.'”
Think for a moment about what this talk about "God" and "God choosing" a seriously ill child whose illness vaccination would have prevented means.
If "God" has "chosen" Ethan, then "God" is also choosing all the other children this mother's own children infect because of the decision she is making on behalf of her children. Every parent choosing to let their children get measles is making other children susceptible to her choice.
And "God" is choosing all of us, since we all bear the cost of expensive hospital treatments for those who need not have been hospitalized if they or their parents had made the responsible decision to vaccinate.
And if these unfortunate human beings end up permanently impaired, as they sometimes do, we all bear the cost of assisting and supporting them.
Wrapping eminently antisocial, eminently selfish, and very stupid decisions in pseudo-religious language doesn't do anything at all to change the fact that these decisions are, in fact, antisocial and selfish, and fueled by stupidity.
measles #children #vaccines #SouthCarolina
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Explosive global measles outbreaks in North America. Mexico has reported more than 2,700 new cases so far this year. 900 new confirmed cases have been identified across the U.S. a fast-growing outbreak in South Carolina that’s the country’s largest since the disease was eliminated more than two decades ago, with hundreds of infections reported to date. Fast-growing outbreak in South Carolina, the country’s largest since the disease was eliminated more than two decades ago, with hundreds of infections reported to date. Dozens of new infections in Canada, with more than 70 cases in Manitoba.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/measles-global-travel-risks-9.7093765
"Kennedy’s ongoing hostility to vaccines isn’t just keeping new products off the market. It’s having a chilling effect across the whole vaccines industry, as the New York Times reported yesterday."
~ The Bulwark
"The motivations behind the crusade against clean energy and the crusade against vaccines are also similar. The conspiracy-theorizing hostility to science and expertise in general that underpins both movements also predisposes people to become right-wing extremists, which means that their movements are now in power."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #science #healthcare #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-kakistocracy-became-a-quackistocracy
"The headline on a 2023 article in The Guardian captured this perfectly: ‘"Everything you’ve been told is a lie": Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline.'
Last but by no means least, in both cases it’s crucial to follow the money."
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #science #healthcare #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EconomicElites #corruption
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"Ws many observers have noted, the Trump administration is a kakistocracy: rule by the worst. A history of personal corruption is no longer a bar to high office — it’s practically a requirement.
Under Trump 47, people who have enriched themselves by peddling medical misinformation are no longer just influencing policymakers. They have become policymakers."
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #science #healthcare #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EconomicElites #corruption
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"RFK’s position as Trump’s chief snake-oil death dealer could affect global development of new vaccines for shingles, herpes, and the Epstein-Barr virus, the latter of which has been linked to some cancers.
The Trump administration is a disaster not just for public health in the US, but worldwide."
~ Noah Berlatsky
How #RFKJr is systematically destroying the market so companies won't make #vaccines. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-what-destroying-the-vaccine-market-looks-like-moderna-flu-prasad-fda?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=87281&post_id=188013293&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=zgs9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
"Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust."
~ NY Times Pitchbot
#Trump #RFKJr #MAGA #vaccines #media #BothSidesism
https://bsky.app/profile/nytpitchbot.bsky.social/post/3mes3zp6yq22f
The only way RFK, jr. makes sense is if the Republicans’ plan is to kill as many of us as possible.
More for them.
#Trumpdemic #BatshitBob #AgentBrainWorm #BobKennedy #HHS #PublicHealth #Vaccines #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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Skeletons dancing from Black Death Bubonic plague history. Caption: The GOP is killing us. Literally.
#Trumpdemic
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RFK Jr. Made Promises in Order To Become Health Secretary. He’s Broken Many of Them.
Before being confirmed to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators he would not cut funding for vaccine researc...
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/zczrv
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/rfk-jr-robert-kennedy-vaccines-broken-promises-senators-cassidy/#autism #childrens-health #health-industry #hhs #misinformation #public-health #trump-administration #vaccines
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!! A vaccine for Enterovirus A71 (which causes hand-foot-mouth disease) proved to be 99% effective in a Phase 3 trial!!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-026-01396-x
"Is there anything less surprising than a measles outbreak at the 'March For Life' rally? They love life! ...
Last year, there were 2,267 cases of measles in the United States — a 30-year-high and slightly more than the 285 cases in 2024 or the 58 from the year before. Now, it’s February of 2026 and there have been 733 cases so far."
~ Robyn Pennacchia
#measles #ProLife #MarchforLife #MAGA #vaccines
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/is-there-anything-less-surprising
"If things keep going at this pace, we’re looking at 6,497 cases this year, the highest rate since the 1989-1991 measles epidemic that led to 55,000 cases and more than 100 deaths."
"That outbreak happened largely due to parents not being able to afford to immunize their kids, which led to Congress creating the Vaccines for Children program, which made vaccines free for all uninsured, underinsured, and Indigenous children.
It worked, and by 1992, there were 2,126. In 1993, there were 312, and so on."
The entire world is watching as Republicans make a mockery of US government.
Top US medical body to review vaccine effectiveness as government ‘abdicates’ responsibility
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/american-medical-assocation-vaccine-review
#Vaccines #AMA #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #AmericanFascistParty #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
@alice May I ask what the three #vaccines were?
I'm a pharmacist, and I've been a radical PRO-vaxer literally since childhood. Louis Pasteur was one of my childhood heroes. So when I got my first dose of #Shingrix a few years ago, and this brutal adjuvanted vaccine made my whole right arm turn red and warm from the injection site in the deltoid all the way down to my wrist, it didn't bother me in the least. Quite the contrary. I thought, "Good! This is exactly the red alert my immune system needs."
I knew that Shingrix was more effective than the old #Zostavax live vaccine against #shingles, which I had also gotten. Not long ago it had been thought impossible for a recombinant vaccine like Shingrix to be more effective than the best available live vaccine, but the rules are rapidly being rewritten by modern #adjuvant technology.
What I was NOT prepared for was the flood of good news about Shingrix from observational research — the exact opposite of #antivaxer paranoid fantasies. I'll be the first to admit that the picture isn't clear yet — science works by theory based on the accumulated totality of observational and experimental evidence, not by overconfident extrapolation from individual studies. But it’s looking as though Shingrix has astonishing benefits above and beyond its basic purpose of preventing shingles. And the benefits may even extend to other modern adjuvanted vaccines.
Vaccination against shingles was expected to provide some protection against #dementia, simply because herpes #zoster, the virus that causes shingles, is a known risk factor for dementia. But observational studies showed statistically that the reduction in new-onset dementia began right away — too quickly for it to be purely the result of suppression of shingles attacks, which are infrequent. And now evidence is starting to appear that suggests that Shingrix may have a general anti-aging effect through some kind of "tuning" of the immune system — as may at least some other adjuvanted vaccines.
How ironic. This is the kind of very general benefit that homeopaths and such tend to claim, dubiously, for their panaceas — and now it looks as though modern biomedical high technology has achieved it for real, without even trying.
Think about that as your immune system on red alert is making you, very temporarily, feel miserable.
Bbbbuttt, RFK's Grok-powered AI will tell you which foods are best for inserting in your rectum!
How RFK Jr.’s “MAHA” Quackery Is Making Flu Season Worse
https://newrepublic.com/article/205954/kennedy-maha-anti-vaccine-flu
#BatshitBob #AgentBrainWorm #BobKennedy #HHS #PublicHealth #Vaccines #RFKisNoKennedy #RFKPredator #RFKGrifter #USPol
“This is likely to discourage industry from investing in future #influenza #vaccines, and makes working with the US FDA uncertain and problematic,” said Dorit Reiss, professor of law at UC Law San Francisco.
“They are refusing to review a new vaccine with a more flexible technology, while creating a real risk we will not have traditional vaccines for next year.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/fda-moderna-flu-vaccine
#FDA
I feel like folks who have common sense just need to state obvious truths like:
Vaccines save lives.
and put that message (and other similar) on repeat. Like - did you know:
Vaccines save lives.
Because, I thought this was obvious, but obviously a lot of people have.. forgotten? Didn't think about it enough? Because:
Vaccines save lives.
Would it work? Would some idiots out there go, huh, maybe
Vaccines save lives.
“the research “shows it is very highly unlikely that COVID-19 vaccines have any meaningful negative effect on fertility or childbirth rates,”
“Researchers were able to analyze medicals records of nearly 60,000 women ages 18 to 45 in one Swedish county because the country’s national health system keeps detailed records of births, deaths, vaccinations, and other key data.”
#VaccinesWork #Vaccines #Covid19 #Pregnancy
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/large-study-finds-covid-19-shots-don-t-affect-fertility
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Person holding a protest sign saying "childhood vaccines cause adulthood"
At least 20 students at Ave Maria University in Florida now have confirmed measles infections.
Florida has the fourth most measles cases so far in 2026, with 21 confirmed. South Carolina has by far the most (540, 920 if you count those still sick from 2025), followed by Utah (48) and Arizona (34), with those three states experiencing ongoing outbreaks that began in 2025.
At least 19 people have been hospitalized in S. Carolina during the current outbreak, with an untold number of patients suffering from measles-related encephalitis
95% are unvaccinated or have an unknown vaccine status
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/campus-measles-outbreak-grows-florida
#measles #vaccines #antivax #rfkjr #publichealth
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Cartoon dr: Your son wasn't Vaccinated and now he has the measles.
Mother: I want a 2nd opinion
Dr: You're an idiot.
#USPol
#Satire
#Vaccines
#Measles
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Cartoon showing two people reading a newspaper, one wearing a baseball hat emblazoned with “NC”.
In the first panel:
"Too many are crossing our border and bringing in diseases!”
“Mexicans?”
The second panel shows newspaper headline:
"MEASLES OUTBREAK!
THOUSANDS OF NEW CASES
Anti-vax resistance”
And the answer to the question, “South Carolinans”
#Federal #Vaccine “Advisers” Take Aim at #Covid Shots
One panelist accused the #FDA of withholding data on potential harms. The advisers also are reviewing research on #vaccines given to pregnant women.
#Trump #law #policy #HealthInsurance #PublicHealth #health #medicine #science #ConspiracyTheories #RFKJr
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/health/vaccines-covid-acip-malone-kennedy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Members of the #federal #vaccine panel chosen by #Health Secy #RFKJr are setting sights on their next targets: the mRNA #Covid shots, & #vaccines offered to pregnant women.
The panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices [#ACIP], already has imposed some limits on access to Covid vaccines & has rescinded recommendations for some routine childhood shots.
#Trump #law #policy #HealthInsurance #PublicHealth #medicine #science #ConspiracyTheories
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
Meanwhile, a study of literally millions of people shows:
"Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 … **and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality**"
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305
#Trump #law #policy #HealthInsurance #PublicHealth #health #vaccines #medicine #science #ConspiracyTheories #RFKJr
#Covid
"We're literally, you know, having a debate over the polio vaccine. Like, I don't know, I didn't realize that there was this hidden pro-polio audience out there in American politics."
~ Stuart Stevens
#Trump #RFKJr #MAGA #MAHA #vaccines #polio
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/how-to-outlast-trump-the-strategy
#politics #vaccines #PublicHealth
'Nearly half of the databases that public health officials at the [CDC] were updating on a monthly basis have been frozen without notice or explanation, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.'
What's fair is fair.
#Measels #Vaccines #antivaxxers #RFKjr
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Kim Jordan posted the following:
If my kid can't bring peanut butter
to school, yours shouldn't be able
to bring preventable diseases.
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.
Text on image:
whn.global
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.
Text on image:
whn.global
“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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Dark graphic with a large yellow headline explaining that vaccination protects people who can’t be vaccinated. White text explains why (pregnancy/immunocompromised) and emphasizes “community immunization,” followed by a concluding statement and the WHN footer.
Text on image:
whn.global
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
Another vaccine approval and more in my latest next generation Covid vax update:
- Self-amplifying mRNA vax Kostaive approved in the UK
- New trial for a mucosal vax on the starting blocks in Finland
- Some results from AstraZeneca phase 1 trial for mRNA vax
- 11 preclinical reports, including 2 for mucosal pancoronavirus vaccines
Sigh... I liked it when measles was eliminated here. 😔
Get vaccinated, people. It's rather essential for those of us that have problems with their immune systems.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the land of dystopia...
NBC News: South Carolina measles outbreak reaches 789 cases, surpassing Texas (Jan 27 2026 10:33am)
Top #CDC #vaccine adviser questions need for #polio shot, other longstanding recommendations. Chair of federal panel stresses need to protect individual #rights over #publichealth - #healthcare #vaccines #children #pandemic #epidemic #medicine #virus #viruses #vaccinations https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/vaccine-policy-adviser-kirk-milhoan-individual-rights-trump-public-health/ #maga #HHS #fda See also Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/health/milhoan-vaccines-optional-polio.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlA.wloD.MCP1vdTBsxSR
Even for the #TrumpAdministration, this is batshit crazy. They really want to Make Polio Great Again.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/vaccine-policy-adviser-kirk-milhoan-individual-rights-trump-public-health/
The withdrawal will hurt the global response to new #outbreaks & will hobble the ability of #US #scientists & #pharmaceutical companies to develop #vaccines & #medicines against new threats, said Lawrence Gostin, a #PublicHealth #law expert at Georgetown University.
The #WHO is the #UnitedNations’ specialized #health agency & is mandated to coordinate the response to global health threats.
Oh, FFS, every high school freshman who paid addition in their first real science class will tell you the underlying foundation of Science, which we named the Scientific Method so there would be no doubt, is following an evidence-based process for understanding the world.
We ask a question, do research, form a testable hypothesis, experiment, gather data, build on past findings and then draw conclusions. Nowhere in there does it say science is based on individual observations. I'm all for challenging previous conclusions but not the "I ignore everything and have my own opinion of what the science is."
How the heck is this guy an MD? Scary that he is a pediatric cardiologist. Who would let a doc that things like this work on their child's heart.
As South Carolina announces that 648 people have been diagnosed with measles (these are only the people who are diagnosed, and state health official say many more people are infected but not diagnosed), Robin Pennacchia writes,
“Tuesday also happened to be the one-year anniversary of the first reported case of measles last January."
#Trump #RFKJr #measles #SouthCarolina #vaccines #CrunchyMoms #MAHA
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/rfk-jr-must-be-so-proud-south-carolina
American Congress!
Excuse my language, but...
When the fuck are you gonna stop #Trump???
What the fuck more needs to happen for you to move your goddamned asses??
Never mind, don't excuse my language, because it's appropriate under the circumstances
#StopTrump #Minnesota #ICE #ReneeNicoleGood #InsurrectionAct #Invasion #Greenland #vaccines #flu #Venezuela #Congress #AmericanFascism
Got Measles?
#Measles #SouthCarolina #BatshitBob #AgentBrainWorm #BobKennedy #HHS #PublicHealth #Vaccines #RFKisNoKennedy #RFKPredator #RFKGrifter #USPol
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Group of zombies. Caption: South Carolina Welcomes You!
RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@HelenBranswell/115929786807742426
mass murderer appointed to subvert public health with #eugenics is asked if mass murdering is a public health for the mass murdering regime that coup’ed itself into power.
#Measles was once common. #Vaccines made it rare. #RFKJr is making it common again. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/south-carolina-measles-outbreak-expands-200-reaches-646-cases
#MAGA #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #Covid19 #Vaccines #antivaxxers #memes #humour
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Why do childhood vaccine recommendations differ across Canada 🇨🇦— and around the world 🌍 ?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/childhood-vaccines-canada-us-9.7049005
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Pourquoi les recommandations pour les vaccinations infantiles diffèrent à travers le Canada 🇨🇦 et à travers le monde 🌍?
// Article en anglais //
Okay, I am a lot more alive today.
If you get the two part Shingles vaccine, make sure you take the next day off, after the second shot. I jinxed myself by saying "Oh, this isn't too bad." For me, the side effects were mild at first: mostly fatigue. It was the next day that it hit, hard. Are you usually aware of all of your bones? Because you will be acutely aware of all of them after the second shot.
Today, the pain is pretty much gone. I just feel rubbery, the opposite of yesterday where I felt like I was made of heavy lumber and somehow had tried to swim the English channel without drowning.
It's still worth it. Shingles is more painful than the side effects of the shot. (If you ever suspect Shingles, you want to get your doc to Rx Valtrex and Neurontin ASAP, before it gets worse.) I've had Shingles twice. It will make you cry.
We don't know exactly how much protection vs. Alzheimer's that Shingrix imparts, but potentially 40%. Why? Because viruses are key and always have been. They are known triggers of many conditions, especially autoimmune, but others, too.
So, get the shots, if you can.
#Children #Vaccines #Health #Death #Graveyard
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
"Without vaccines, many transmissible diseases were once an early death sentence. People are so quick to forget how fortunate we are to have access to them."
Details emerge of #RFKJr's new Tuskegee study. This monster is willing to sacrifice African children to promote his #antivax nonsense. https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-leaked-protocol-of-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1183526&post_id=184624829&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nunx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Stopping transmission takes more than one tool. WHN’s Five Pillars of Prevention show how layered protections—masking, ventilation, distancing, testing, and vaccination—work together to reduce the spread of COVID and other airborne viruses.
Read more: https://whn.global/stop-transmission-with-the-five-pillars-of-protection/
#InfectionPrevention #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #Masking #Vaccines #CleanAir #Influenza #Flu
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Graphic on a dark background with several prevention tools arranged around the edges: two COVID-19 Ag rapid tests, a vaccine vial labeled “COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS VACCINE,” a rectangular HEPA filter, an air purifier, and an N95-style respirator mask. Center text in large pink letters reads: “Protection works best when it’s layered.” The WHN logo “whn.global” appears at the top left. Small text along the bottom reads: “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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Informational graphic on a dark background with the WHN logo “whn.global” at top left. Large pink title reads: “The Five Pillars of Prevention”. Below, white text says: “If one pillar is weak, others can be strengthened. Better masks can offset poor ventilation. More ventilation can reduce reliance on individual masking. Layering creates flexibility without sacrificing safety.” In the center are five labeled pill-shaped boxes stacked vertically: “Masking”, “Ventilation”, “Social distancing”, “Testing”, “Vaccination”. A yellow starburst on the left reads: “Prevention is a system—not a single action.” Bottom italic text reads: “Effective against COVID, flu, RSV, and other airborne threats.”
#SouthCarolina #Measles #preventabledisease #vaccines #vaccination
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Headline: SC’s measles outbreak among worst in country as cases exceed 200
Oh look, among the bottom in the country in something, YET AGAIN!
Our elected leadership, with their anti-science, anti-education stances
are to blame.
This year we need to break free and have a #NewSC!
The CDC has been lapsing on their updates.
As of 2026 January 09
1,240,000 Americans have died from Covid-19
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
What parents should know about the new childhood immunization schedule