This fucking idiot is going to wipe out mankind. And womenkind.
RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/health/kennedy-bird-flu.html
The deletions began shortly after #Trump took office. #CDC web pages on #vaccines, #HIV prevention, & #ReproductiveHealth went missing. Findings on #BirdFlu transmission vanished minutes after they appeared. The #Census Bureau’s public repository went offline, then returned w/o certain directories of geographic info. The #DOJ expunged the #Jan6th #insurrection from its site, & whitehouse.gov took down an explainer page about the #Constitution.
#DigitalBookBurning
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge
How about some promising Covid-vaccine-related news? It's all early on, but it's still nice to see — and maybe buried amidst all the other news.
Nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on WashU technology to enter U.S. clinical trials
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/nasal-covid-19-vaccine-based-on-washu-technology-to-enter-u-s-clinical-trials/
Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants
https://news.utexas.edu/2024/09/03/newly-discovered-antibody-protects-against-all-covid-19-variants/
(Of course, who knows what will happen with any vaccine work and/or availability given this administration.)
In 1 decade, Texas went from having high vaccination rates to low rates
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/experts-vaccines-texas-measles
Making America Sicker and More Ignorant Again
The NIH just cut research grants on dozens of studies, many already in progress, on vaccine hesitancy and strategies to increase vaccine uptake.
Meanwhile, RFKJr's CDC is resurrecting the long disproven link began vaccines and autism and calling for new studies on this already scientifically resolved non issue.
And at the same time, RFKJr is telling people to take snake oil, I mean codfish oil, and antibiotics, to combat measles, though neither of which has any efficacy for that disease.
“The goal is to cast vaccines into the shadows. That has deadly consequences.”
Legislators are bent on dismantling our vaccine safety net even as this deadly disease sees a frightening resurgence in our state. https://www.texasobserver.org/measles-outbreak-anti-vax-legislation/
"*On March 9, a case was confirmed in the Maryland/metro D.C. area.
Measles is more contagious than many of the diseases we take far more seriously in the media and halls of Congress.
Measles infection can result in severe and sometimes permanent complications including pneumonia, lung damage, brain damage, and death."
#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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"According to the Centers for Disease Control, as of March 6, 2025, a total of 222 measles cases have been reported by twelve U.S. jurisdictions in just the first 65 days of 2025.
The current outbreaks are in:
Alaska
California
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York City
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Texas
Washington state"
~ Amelia Mavis Christnot
#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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https://auntiemavis.substack.com/p/measles-dangers-immunity-vaccination-testing
"Kennedy is a quack, and a dangerous one. These ideas are only the tip of the iceberg. Regardless of what he says for public consumption, he is an anti-vaxxer. So are his 'experts.' They ignore the reality that any vaccine can only be effective with mass administration. Voluntary vaccination won’t cut it. He knows that.
This perversion of science will cost many thousands of lives, perhaps more."
~ Mark Mansour
"He cheered on questionable treatments like cod liver oil, and said that local doctors had achieved 'almost miraculous and instantaneous' recoveries with steroids or antibiotics."
Note that shifting blame for contracting measles to lack of good diet and exercise blames victims in a particularly nasty way that makes invidious insinuations about social class and income. RFKJr. and his kind are models of good health?
#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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"[RFKJr] issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one. He suggested that measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research. He asserted that natural immunity to measles, gained through infection, somehow also protected against cancer and heart disease, a claim not supported by research."
~ Teddy Rosenbluth
#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html
#RFKJr, the new secretary of NIH’s parent agency, the #HHS, has disparaged #vaccines for years. Last week, the #CDC, another part of HHS, was asked by the #Trump admin to launch a study into a possible connection between #vaccines & autism, despite repeated research that shows no link between the two.
The #NIH will cancel or cut back dozens of grants for #research on why some people are reluctant to be vaccinated & how to increase acceptance of #vaccines, acc/to an internal email obtained by WaPo on Mon.
The email, titled “required terminations - 3/10/25,” shows that on Mon morning, the agency “received a new list...of awards that need to be terminated, today. It has been determined they do not align w/NIH funding priorities related to vaccine hesitancy &/or uptake.”
National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
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Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Promising: "Cornell University researchers have developed a new vaccine platform designed to offer stronger, longer-lasting protection against both COVID & influenza while providing broader immunity against various flu strains.
A study published in Science Advances found that vaccinated mice showed no visible signs of illness & exhibited no cellular damage in their tissues."
#USPol #Health #Vaccines #Covid #Influenza
https://scitechdaily.com/game-changing-vaccine-offers-long-lasting-protection-against-covid-19-flu/
I feel deja vu like we did this before...
CDC is apparently going to look for link between vaccines and autism because apparently that is the important thing, not curing cancer or saving lives. It's just going to lead to eugenics because when you set out to try to prove something you believe, you'll construct a link. This is exactly how eugenics works. It is not scientific in the least. (https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/)
The #CDC’s move comes amid one of the largest #measles outbreaks the US has seen in the past decade, with >150 cases & 2 deaths in #Texas & #NewMexico. The outbreak has been fueled by declining #vaccination rates in parts of the #UnitedStates where parents have been falsely persuaded that such shots do more harm than good.
A PSA:
If you are RURAL in the USA and interested in getting up to date with vaccines:
Make sure to CALL THE PHARMACY before you schedule.
If you want am MMR vaccine (Measles/mumps/rubella) PLEASE START SCHEDULING NOW.
My local pharmacies do not carry MMR.
Even some doctors' offices do NOT carry MMR. You'll probably have to go to a pediatric clinic and wait a MONTH because they are busy.
Please start scheduling your MMR shot/series NOW.
