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RFK Jr.'s vaccine moves put new focus on patchwork of state school standards (Lexi Lonas Cochran/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5677527-rfk-jr-kennedy-cdc-vaccines/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p31#a260109p31

The CDC just sidelined these childhood vaccines. Here's what they prevent. (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-childhood-vaccines-heres-what-they-prevent/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p55#a260107p55

‘She has no expertise’:
the US medical community girds for Tracy Beth HŸeg’s tenure at the FDA
The Danish American who doubted Covid shots is meant to lead drug regulation – but has focused on vaccines
So far in public appearances, she has continued to focus on vaccines
– typically the purview of Vinay Prasad,
director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)
– rather than drug regulation.
HŸeg’s predecessors reportedly clash…

Opinion | Former FDA commissioner: Vaccines prevent long-term effects of viruses - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/lC9UZ

No, @…, emphasizing the safety of vaccines is not a strawman. For everlasting fuck’s sake.
Come back to planet Earth, where:
- scare-mongering about vaccines is running rampant,
- right-wing propaganda is intentionally fueling that fear for profiteering and political gain,
- parents are very clearly afraid of the vaccines themselves right now,
- diseases like measles are making a return because of that fear, and
- people are dying as a result.
Your post is a non-sequitur. Whatever stick you have up your butt about lockdowns or whatever this post was about, please keep that stick in your butt and out of vaccine safety discussions. https://mastodon.online/@dennmans/115631732594437886

Trofim Lysenko likes this message
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/rfk-jr-s-new-cdc-deputy-director-prefers-natural-immunity-over-vaccines/

A surprise benefit of mRNA vaccines could be better treatments for cancer, extending lives without the side effects of chemo? Yay for good news! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/12/covid-mrna-vaccines-cancer-patien…

After promising to be "more accountable" than Walter Cronkite, Tony Dokoupil didn't challenge Pete Hegseth in an interview or cite sources in another segment (Daniel D'Addario/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/columns/tony-dokoupil-cbs-even…

Tony Dokoupil CBS Evening News Debut: A Tough Night for New Anchor
Tony Dokoupil tripped up over transitions and bulldozed a health expert over vaccines

I'm disappointed to learn today that my name twin Scott Miller, founder of Apogee Games, is an idiotic antivaxxer.
Please let me reassure you that despite having the same first and last name, I am very pro vaccine.
#AntiVaxxer #ScottMiller

Get your shots, people.
https://wapo.st/4osPgsh

Fewer people are being vaccinated against respiratory diseases:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-flu-vaccines/fewer-people-are-being-vaccinated-against-respiratory-diseases

Federal Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/health/vaccines-covid-acip-malone-kennedy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p116#a260206p116

An April 2025 study published in the prominent journal Nature found tantalizing evidence that the herpes zoster – or #shingles – #vaccine
👍could lower the risk of #dementia in the general population by as much as 20%❗️
A …

Vaccines hold tantalizing promise in the fight against dementia
A prominent Nature study and related research raise the possibility that vaccines may have a broader role in experimental therapeutics outside the realm of infectious diseases.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
The Vaccines:
🎵 Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)
#TheVaccines
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Here's Noah Wyle telling you that vaccines are fucking safe in in a clip for NBC's "ER" 20 years ago.
#vaccines #noahwyle #er

Got my yearly vaccines today. I definitely hurt but better than getting the actual thing.

RFK Jr. Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/nwBfA

Trump administration sparks midterm vaccine war (Caitlin Owens/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/06/trump-administration-rfk-midterms-vaccines-kids
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p27#a260106p27

Until trials can prove a negative, we can't really use science to suggest anything about the effectiveness of medicine or the causes of disease.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/rfk-jr-s-loathesome-edits-cdc-websit…

RFK Jr.’s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism
The site previously correctly noted that studies have repeatedly found no link.

Over two days of questioning
during his Senate confirmation hearings last year,
Robert F Kennedy Jr repeated the same answer.
He said the closely scrutinized trip he took to Samoa in 2019,
which came ahead of a devastating measles outbreak,
had “nothing to do with vaccines”.
Documents obtained by the Guardian and the Associated Press undermine that testimony.
Emails sent by staff at the US embassy and the United Nations provide, for the first time, …

RFK Jr. may have perjured himself with key vaccines claim: newly revealed emails - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-2675105066/

New malaria drug hits 97% cure rate. Now we need to pay for it. | Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/470060/malaria-drug-resistance-global-health-usaid-foreign-aid-vaccine

The end of malaria
A major trial shows the drug GanLum cures 97% of malaria cases. Combined with new vaccines, we could end the disease—if funding cuts don’t stop us first.

I'm listening to the audiobook of *Vaccines: Are They Worth a Shot* by Andrea Grignolio. The book is ... fine, but the translation from Italian was either by a non-fluent speaker or a bad AI. The wrong word or phrase is often used, and it's jarring. For instance, the narrator says "exasperate" for "exacerbate," and "... attributed this cause to the deaths ..." when English would say, "... attributed the deaths to this cause ..."

Vaccines: Are they Worth a Shot?
This book reveals common misconceptions in the debate over vaccinations and sheds new light on their safety and importance.

Vaccinating newborns against hepatitis B saves lives. Why might a CDC panel stop recommending it? Why indeed!?
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/vaccinating-newborns-against-hepatitis-b-saves-lives-why-might-cdc-panel-stop

US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-babies-hepatitis-b-10f8db54beb38c5cd39a94f8a3657752
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p46#a251205p46

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
The Vaccines:
🎵 Minimal Affection
#NowPlaying #TheVaccines
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MoEjHgtxcUk3UlpCQM6zl

What it means that the FDA claims Covid vaccines caused child deaths | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fda-without-evidence-vaccine-child-deaths-b2879406.html

"An AuDHD person is someone who doesn't vaccinate enough people"
Because autism causes vaccines, and AuDHD is a hyperactive deficit of autism

When I see The Pitt flashbacks to the mentor dying of COVID, I think about my Auntie Baby (RIP) in the Philippines dying of COVID in spring of 2020. She had the best care money could buy there (USA trained doctors and equipment courtesy of my wealthy cousin) but no anti-virals and no vaccines.

RFK has a weird voice not because of flu vaccines (as he claims) but because he used to be a junkie
https://crookedtimber.org/2026/01/24/a-very-short-post-about-heroin-voice/#more-54832

Inside Kennedy's Methodical Quest to Shake Up America's Vaccine System (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/rfk-vaccines-hhs-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p27#a251204p27

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website
to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism,
he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.
His comments provide clarity into who directed the CDC’s website change,
after many current and former staffers at the agency were surprised to see new published guidance on Wednesday
that defies …

RFK Jr. says he personally directed CDC’s new guidance on vaccines and autism
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.

FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations: Trying to ensure that nobody gets immunized. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/fda-official-proposes-impossible-standards-vaccine-testing-could-curtail-access

CDC Pares List of Recommended Childhood Vaccines (Sabrina Siddiqui/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/cdc-childhood-vaccine-schedule-changes-7f7bd45c?st=TuZrJW
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p21#a260106p21

Stanford Scientists Discover Why mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines Can Cause Myocarditis
https://scitechdaily.com/stanford-scientists-discover-why-mrna-based-covid-19-vaccines-can-cause-myocarditis/

Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change #America

Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change
If you've been following recent debates about health, you've been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs—but much less about one of the greatest threats to global public health: climate change.

I love Deerhoof’s Actually, You Can not just as a great, fun album but as a time capsule from an optimistic moment. In late 2021, we seemed to be emerging from the shadows of Trump and Covid-19—who’d have thought the Four Seasons presser and the vaccines, respectively, didn't end them? The music bottles up joyful, radical imaginings of a better world that were in the air since the George Floyd rebellion, not yet extinguished by the reactionary “crime” panic to come.

As US officials move to restrict vaccines
-- including the shots to prevent respiratory syncytial virus ( #RSV )
-- more evidence is emerging to confirm how dramatically the jabs reduce hospitalizations.
Announced last week as part of new restrictions on one-third of all routine childhood vaccines,
❌RSV shots are now recommended only for high-risk babies, instead of all infants.
The…

Trump says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security....
Other national security matters:
- immigrants who are not white
- tariffs on products coming into the USA
- elimination of ObamaCare
- stopping all vaccines that save lives
- unlimited supply of KFC on Air Force 1
https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-ballroom-national-security-de9756118bbfca8f40af9cf89db6af5b

F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children's Deaths to Covid Vaccines (Christina Jewett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/health/fda-children-deaths-covid-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.408.pKyQ.ZEbwCNQQbpzE&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p1#a251129p1

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,”
Twelve former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Vinay Prasad, the head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
pose “a threat to evidence-based vaccine policy and public h…

Inside the FDA’s Vaccine Uproar - KFF Health News
An internal email claiming covid vaccines killed children triggered a formal response from a dozen past FDA commissioners. The email, sent by the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, outlines a framework that could have significant impact on the nation’s vaccine policies.

"Vaccine panel chair says polio, measles, and other shots should be optional"
I want to quote the dumbest thing he said, but I can't decide which of the many dumb things he said is actually the dumbest.
#NYT #USA #vaccines #health #children #polio #measles

Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.'s Second in Command (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/health/cdc-ralph-lee-abraham-vaccines.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p96#a251125p96

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The Vaccines:
🎵 If You Wanna
#TheVaccines
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Flu cases are rising with a strain that makes older people sicker m
The CDC estimates there have been at least 4.6 million flu-related illnesses,
at least 49,000 hospitalizations
and 1,900 deaths this season,
which started in late September and may run through March or April.

The wrinkle is a new strain of flu which is a version of H3N2, a type of influenza A, that’s quickly become the most common one in the U.S.
The H3N2 strain is typically associated wi…

Flu cases are rising with a strain that makes older people sicker
Flu season is ramping up in the U.S., marked by a new strain that could make vaccines less effective. Covid cases remain down.

How RFK Jr. upended the public health system (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/30/rfk-jr-hhs-secretary-vaccines/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY3MDcwODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY4NDUzMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjcwNzA4MDAsImp0aSI6Ijk0NzE0OTY2LTI1YWUtNDNkMi1iYjljLTc3NjEwMTYzMjczOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvMjAyNS8xMi8zMC9yZmstanItaGhzLXNlY3JldGFyeS12YWNjaW5lcy8ifQ.GniiEx_KtjBp2qh62CkazQbJ3tJRiTqXq44rGUXvy4k
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p21#a251230p21

Lawsuit contests RFK Jr.’s new vaccine guidance for children - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/01/19/rfk-childhood-vaccines-lawsuit/

Chaos could be coming for children's vaccines (Caitlin Owens/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/22/childhood-vaccines-denmark-cdc-lawsuits
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p5#a251222p5

The leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals,
following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.
Experts suggest the announcement will make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
Dr Vinay Prasad, whose vaccine policy direction has been supported by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, told FDA staff that…

CDC website is changed to raise suspicions of a vaccines-autism link (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-autism-vaccines-7b1890f626dd5921fafd00fdd1e6425a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p57#a251120p57

The first vaccine was a lucky accident.
Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-golden-age-of-vaccine-development/

The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine
The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.

Cassidy took on RFK Jr. over vaccines. Now Kennedy's followers are out to defeat him. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/cassidy-questioned-rfk-jr-now-kennedys-followers-are-out-to-get-him-00758725
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p23#a260202p23

Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/hepatitis-b-vaccines-study-africa-cancel
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p51#a260115p51

Experts say top FDA official's claim that Covid vaccines caused kids' deaths requires more evidence (STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/covid-vaccine-deaths-fda-memo-vinay-prasad/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p53#a251129p53

Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/health/milhoan-vaccines-optional-polio.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p67#a260123p67

Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

COVID vaccines protect children from severe illness per CDC.
⬇️76% reduced risk of ER visits in kids 9 mo. to 4 years
⬇️56% reduced risk of ER visits in kids 5 - 17 years
-- @drruth.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/atranscendedman.bsky.social/po…

Through mid-October, IHS had published far fewer posts on Facebook promoting vaccine clinics this year than last.
And in those posts as well as other notices, it replaced language touting immunization’s benefits
with wording that frames both routine childhood vaccinations and annual flu and COVID-19 shots as a personal choice,
advising patients to consult health care providers about their “options regarding vaccines.”
Current and former IHS clinicians told ProPublica…

The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.

Health Department Cancels Grants to Group That Criticized Kennedy's Vaccine Policies (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/american-academy-of-pediatrics-hhs-funding-rfk-jr-vaccines.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p145#a251217p145

CDC drops hepatitis B shot recommendation for some infants (Adriel Bettelheim/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/17/hepatitis-b-vaccines-birth-cdc-recommendation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p3#a251217p3

The “super flu” behind outbreaks in the US and UK is a new variant of influenza: H3N2, subclade K.
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-super-flu-spreading-in-united-states-europe/

What Is the ‘Super Flu’ That Is Spreading in Europe and the United States?
The “super flu” behind outbreaks in the US and UK is a new variant of influenza A H3N2, subclade K. Existing vaccines appear to be insufficiently effective against the virus.

'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week (Erika Edwards/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/south-carolina-measles-outbreak-cases-double-vaccines-quarantine-rcna253989
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p137#a260116p137

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The Vaccines:
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#TheVaccines
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“God gave us this incredible gift of an intellect and curiosity and an opportunity to explore how nature works,”
Dr Francis Collins, former director of National Institutes of Health said.
“And God gave us nature as well
and we get the chance through science to do that.
I think of science as glimpsing God’s mind.
Science is almost a form of worship because what you’re trying to do there is to be completely caught up in the awe of what we’ve been given in natu…

Francis Collins and Marc Siegel say medicine is a gift from God
“To have Christians be the group that was most resistant” to the Covid vaccine “really seems wrong here,” said former NIH Director Francis Collins.

Nearly a million chickens packed the barns at Howe’s Hens last Christmas Eve when the first of them tested positive for bird flu.
The deadly virus spreads so fast that even if only one hen is infected,
farmers are legally obligated to kill all of the others.
Massive mounds of carcasses soon appeared outside the Ohio egg farm, covered in compost. 
The slaughter wasn’t enough.
The virus tore through industrial barns in Darke County
and moved on through one …

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

We've seen some big news in outbreaks over the weekend with Marburg in Ethiopia and H5N5 in Washington, US.
See more on both below👇.
https://bsky.app/profile/altcdc.altgov.info/post/3m5rjz67als2a

Alt CDC (they/them) (@altcdc.altgov.info)
🦠Marburg in Ethiopia Ethiopia confirmed its first-ever outbreak, with 9 cases in Southern Ethiopia. Marburg virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever; it's in the same family as Ebola. It primarily spreads through contact with body fluids. There are no vaccines. https://africacdc.org/news-item/africa-cdc-statement-on-confirmed-marburg-virus-disease-in-jinka-southern-region-ethiopia/

Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/19/childhood-vaccine-schedule-denmark-revisions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p98#a251219p98

For years, Sen. Ron Johnson has been spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the safety of vaccines.
He’s promoted disproven treatments for COVID-19
and claimed, without evidence, that athletes are “dropping dead on the field” after getting the COVID-19 vaccination.
Now the Wisconsin politician is endorsing a book by a discredited doctor promoting an unproven and dangerous treatment for autism and a host of ailments:
chlorine dioxide, a chem…

Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor’s Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer
Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It is all lunacy," one expert said.

RFK Jr.'s theories about vaccines are about to be tested (Sophie Gardner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/11/the-diseases-rfk-jr-says-children-dont-need-to-be-routinely-vaccinated-for-00720396
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p74#a260111p74