"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.'
A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."
Dr. Paul Offit from last week's Roundtable on Vaccines:
"The problem is not only that we've largely eliminated these diseases...we've eliminated the memory of these diseases. Parents are now more scared of the safety of vaccines, real or imagined, then the diseases they prevent."
Childhood vaccine rates in the USA have been dropping since 2020.
If vaccines caused autism shouldn’t we also see a drop in autism?
In 1962 author Roald Dahl's oldest child Olivia was infected with measles.
Days later she died from encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.
This was one year before the first measles vaccine.
In 1986 he wrote a heartfelt letter to parents about the importance of vaccines.
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While the science world may look dark right now that only means we have to work harder to turn on the light.
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate.
"MMR coverage is particularly low in Gaines County, where nearly 1 in 5 incoming kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year did not get the vaccine."
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RFK, Jr. looks like a deer in headlights when confronted by his own previous statements on vaccines & AIDS.
This man isn’t qualified.
RFK, Jr. has spent the last 20 years speaking out against vaccines.
But he claims he's not anti-vax.
Is he right?
Watch THE TRUTH ABOUT RFK JR.
This morning RFK, Jr. passed through the Finance Committee all but clearing the way for his confirmation as head of HHS.
This is a dark day for America.
For those who claim RFK, Jr. is pro-vaccine can you show me one time in the last 20 years where he recommended a vaccine for a healthy child?
More bad news for the "vaccines are killing millions" crowd!
Researchers in Norway conducted a study examining all-cause mortality between 2021-2023 from the population, over 4.6 million people.
In all age groups, the rate of death was lowest among those who were fully vaccinated.
The book "Cause Unknown" was published by RFK, Jr.'s anti-vaccine group in 2022.
It argues that COVID-19 vaccines caused sudden deaths.
On the cover the tragic death of 12-year-old Braden Fahey is shown.
There's just one problem.
Braden Fahey was never vaccinated for COVID-19.
The measles outbreak in Texas has doubled to 48 cases.
"All of the cases are in unvaccinated people or those who have unknown vaccination status. Most cases are in children 5 to 17 years old.
Among the 48 cases, 13 have been hospitalized."
In 2 weeks anti-vaxxers will have to immediately cease all attacks on the CDC, NIH, FDA, HHS & public health for at least 4 years.
According to my calculations this eliminates 95% of their arguments.
If we don't see improved health outcomes or if things get worse it's now on them.
In 1985 in Africa 25 vaxxed children were compared with 25 unvaxxed for 5 years.
In the vaxxed group one got mild measles while 4 had suspected whooping cough.
Among the unvaxxed 11 got measles leading to 2 deaths & an unvaxxed child died of tetanus.
This is why we don't do these studies anymore.
In 2011 researchers In England did something that had never been done before.
They compared rates of autism in children to adults.
They concluded that the rates were similar.
If the reported rise in autism was actually real this would not be possible.
"Vaccines have allowed us to live longer.
The only reason frankly that we now question them is because at some level vaccines have been a victim of their own success."
Watch Dr. Paul Offit in VIRULENT: THE VACCINE WAR this weekend!
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A tragic death from measles in Texas today.
The school-aged child who was not vaccinated was hospitalized in Lubbock last week.
This was a preventable death.
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🚨 Another vaccine myth goes DOWN!
A new JAMA study compared prevalence of sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes in the 3 years before & after the COVID-19 pandemic.
They found no difference.
Myocarditis was the cause of SCD in 3 cases before & 4 cases during the pandemic.