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Exciting news! We’re launching a new resource for advocates, lawmakers, partners, and members of the media: the Vaccine Policy Atlas.
This tool shows how state laws are tied to recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
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"Viruses and bacteria that were under control are being set free on our most vulnerable. It may take 1 or 2 years for the tragic consequences to become clear, but this is like asking farmers in North Dakota to grow pineapples. It won't work and can't end well."
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“As it turns out, children are dying and in some cases in Louisiana from measles and pertussis and as a doc who saw people die from hepatitis A and hepatitis B of course I understand the importance of those vaccines. I don't want any child dying from something that's so preventable,” Cassidy said.
"Kennedy's decision will harm and kill children, like all of his anti-vaccination decisions will," virologist James Alwine, PhD, a member of the coordinating committee of Defend Public Health, said in a statement. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social
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Every accusation is a confession (or...intent): MAHA’s new Tuskegee experiment: the new quietly, with no process, approved clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau that will unnecessarily expose babies to hepatitis B. sciencebasedmedicine.org/every-accusa... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org @gorskon.bsky.social
A thing that serves me well: ALWAYS take very seriously anything @kkjetelina.bsky.social says; she's 1 of the most trusted epidemiologists
If FDA thinks risks>benefits, she says, "transparency about their data & reasoning is essential. Closed-door analyses won’t cut it. Americans deserves better.”
The nearly 80-year-old law that could hamper RFK Jr.’s drive to remake vaccine schedule
Legal experts say Kennedy needs to follow established legal procedures to prevent any policy changes from being dismissed by a judge.
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Vaccination rates are plummeting across the country, as part of a larger, troubling trend of growing vaccine hesitancy that is fueling a resurgence of preventable diseases, an NBC News and Stanford University investigation found.
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Dr. Hoeg FDA re language: agreed with Dr. Levi that not protecting young babies from Hepatitis B, that causes liver disease and cancer, is a positive development. Burden of proof: don't know benefits outweigh harms? (experts disagree).
Dr. Hibbeln - language saying first dose at two month - no science presented or discussed about the issue of before or after two months of age. Unconscionable.
Dr. Levi at least admits he does not know the full impact of vaccines, but clearly imagines that because babies are not fully developed they're bad for them.
Note that experts do understand vaccines and babies' developments, even if it's not Dr. Levi's areas.
Dr. Levi alleges assumption is that vaccines are risk free. That's not true; the experts that made the decision rejected by the non-expert #ACIP looked at actual risk, not imaginary ones.
This should be a real risk/benefit balance, which wasn't done here.
ACIP day two (Video here): www.youtube.com/live/kUgXRUp...
Note: ACIP changed the language again now, on the floor, compared to the site.
SCDM for negative, and they still recommend - which they do not have authority - blood draws for subsequent doses. All kinds of bad.
Following #ACIP - apparently, ACIP combined the immunization schedule and hepatitis B workgroups - a change not reflected in the ACIP workgroup list, and it was chaired by Dr. Vicki Pebsworth, a director in an anti-vaccine organization, the National Vaccine Information Center.
Dr. Sandra Fryhofer from the AMA emphatically points out the awful consequences of HepB, and says “we have a duty to protect these little babies”.
She also correctly points out that the U.S. healthcare system is not equipped to test everyone who comes into contact with infants for HepB.
Jason Goldman- calling out the lack of credentials and experience of this committee
This is the self-proclaimed CDC critic who is currently presenting. He is not a scientist or doctor. His only credentials for presenting at ACIP is being crazy enough to hang with RFK.
www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-...
This is why ensuring families have access to the HepB birth dose is essential and spreading falsehoods to scare families away from this vaccine is so dangerous.
Thank you to the ACIP liaisons for standing up for American's health!
We appreciate you!!
Protect the people you love. Your flu vaccination not only protects you, it also protects infants, grandparents, and those with chronic conditions.
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Here is an alternative website you can use to locate vaccines
vaccinefinder.org
🧵 1/3 Anyone else notice that Vaccines.gov the federal vaccine locator is just… broken?
And honestly, would any of us be shocked if it never comes back, given that HHS took it over from CDC this summer?
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Vaccines.gov CDC The functionality of this website may be impacted while it is being updated. Find a pharmacy near you. Enter 5-digit ZIP code 10001 Search Please enter a valid 5-digit ZIP Code
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
