Hésitations Vaccinales: Observatoire HESIVAXs

An interesting article by Christian Ortiz, examining the dynamics behind political communications and agendas, the opportunity to grow from our own challenges and issues and how the easiest path of scapegoating harms the most vulnerable.

RFK Jr. destroys CNN in less than 1 minute:

Dana Bash: “I’m not debating this with you.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Of course you won’t.”

“Because all you know how to do is repeat things that people told you and say ‘trust the experts.’" | 20 comments on LinkedIn

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Ah Kennedy came around a little too late for Typhiod Mary! We will never regain our scientific standing until we vote this out.

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How many Covid vaccine adverse effects have been ignored in order to protect the "integrity" of science?

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🚨 SHOCKING: RFK Jr. just dropped this on live national TV

Lyme disease.
RSV (the #1 killer of American kids).
COVID-19. All of them came from gain-of-function research. His exact words: They’ve been engineering the diseases that are destroying us… and then calling it “science.” This isn’t a conspiracy theory anymore.
This is the HHS Secretary saying it out loud.

“Lyme disease almost certainly came from these experiments and is now devastating our country.”
“RSV came from a laboratory, which is now the biggest killer of children in our country.”
“And of course, the COVID-19 pandemic…

All of those have been linked credibly to gain-of-function research.”

“It’s something with enormous costs and no proven benefits.”

A distinguished (Ashkenazi-American) scientist who has close connections
with deep state, weapon industry, big pharma, CIA, and financial cartels. https://lnkd.in/g-3u-sjN

What happens when trust in institutions begins to erode?

This was the central question explored by First Class Honours student Jess Langdon (supervised by Joshua Lake), who recently presented her research at VaxPolLab.

To investigate whether institutional trust shapes vaccine confidence through trust in official and social network information sources, and whether these pathways are conditioned by post-pandemic attitudinal shifts, a cross-sectional survey was administered across Australia, France, and Italy (N=12,039), with mediation and moderated mediation models estimated across four vaccine confidence outcomes.

The presentation opened with a simple but powerful observation:

"To drive a car, you don't check every bolt the mechanic tightened, or personally verify that the road was built to code. You just trust: the systems, the institutions, the people responsible for it. Vaccines work the same way. Very few of us are in a position to interrogate regulatory approval processes or independently evaluate epidemiological modelling. We rely on trust. And that raises a question that sits at the heart of my dissertation: what happens to vaccine confidence when that trust starts to crack?"

Congratulations Jess 🎉 on an outstanding presentation and on producing such thoughtful and timely research.

UWA School of Social Sciences, Katie Attwell

Aaron Siri is not being honest, real vaccine harms are acknowledged and addressed.

This week, The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), wrote a letter to SAGE to ask them about an expression of concern. He did this in a very public fashion by posting an announcement on his X profile, including a copy of the letter he sent. I've copied them in the post below, but you can find the whole thing here: https://lnkd.in/eHXZTiSq

The expression of concern was issued for the paper "Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children: Developmental delays, asthma, ear infections and gastrointestinal disorders" which was written by Brian S Hooker & Neil Z Miller and published in 2020. https://lnkd.in/eHAKcxh4

Secretary Kennedy claims that SAGE is not being transparent about the reason for the expression of concern and that transparency is needed "to rebuild the American public's trust in public health and medical science".

Looking at PubPeer, we can see that a user named 'Eupithecia lanceata' claims several things, one of them being that there is an undisclosed collaboration between an organization called the Pediatric Health Outcomes Initiative, who gave Brian S Hooker & Neil Z Miller the underlying data and asked them to write this paper. See the PubPeer link here: https://lnkd.in/eu4Uhr6X

Another claim is that Brian S Hooker uses the results of this paper in the second chapter of the book "Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak". Brian S Hooker co-authored this book with Robert F Kennedy Jr, as can be seen here: https://lnkd.in/eYdN4a35

Is Secretary Kennedy the best person to write this letter, given the huge (and undisclosed) conflict of interest regarding this specific case? Is Secretary Kennedy worried that this expression of concern will undermine the claims made in his book? Is Secretary Kennedy only interested in "Letting the Science Speak" when it agrees with him?

This is a clear example of weaponizing research integrity to actually undermine science. Not surprising, but very worrying nonetheless.

The left meme is from December 2, 2020.
Dr. Fauci was already being used as a diversion from Mr. Trump's incompetence and fear.
The second is from January 2022, when Dr. Fauci was really catching static from the Far Right Conservatives that dominated the media at that time.

Too many think of him as a Politician.
He is not. This should be obvious to all.
Just as obvious as his Political Persecution as a Red Herring diversion for all of Mr. Trump's recent failures, such as the Epstein File Debacle.

He is a very intelligent and highly educated Doctor and Scientist.
I knew of him decades before Mr. Trump ever heard his name.
He was often quoted in many articles in Science News Magazine, and I am a 50-year reader of this publication, now also found at sciencenews.org
And he is still the country's premier expert of Viruses.
Because of his work, which led to the office he held.

This ridiculous and costly Political Theater of late, and the massive outpouring of hate by the MAGA Faithful against a retired man that now wields no more power in Government, is a stain upon the history of our Country. They rail and rail, but have provided no proof, only circumstantial innuendo and Hot Air.

Mr. Trump knew just as much, because he listened to his friend, Xi. He knew, and was still paralyzed by incompetence, short-sightedness, and fear.
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And I would also remind the antivaxxers that Mr. Trump spent $14 billion Taxpayer dollars on Project Warp Speed, thereby saving almost as many Citizens as he let be killed by the virus. And that he and his family were amongst the very first ones to have the new vaccines once they became available. And later, he was also saved by Socialized Medicine at Walter Reed with another experimental procedure, Monoclonal Antibodies. | 16 comments on LinkedIn

Maybe rebranding it as Freedom Pox would help morale?

Kennedy’s statement was extracted from him by Dana Bash, CNN’s host, who invited him to use his “bully pulpit” to talk directly to parents as the new school year approached. She urged him to tell families that they should vaccinate for measles “because it is safe and it will help them save their children’s lives”.


The health secretary replied: “Parents should get their children vaccinated for measles. A measles vaccine is effective, it stops measles in about 97% of the cases. People should get vaccinated.”

Later in the interview he added that people should also get the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, the main protection against the disease that has been a particular target of the anti-vaccination movement. | 13 comments on LinkedIn

Over the weekend, RFK Jr. was interviewed on CNN. That interview was filled with inaccurate statements. It covered everything from Covid and measles to vaccines and autism, and was fille

Almost a quarter of a million Americans died of COVID simply because they decided not to be vaccinated against COVID... It was estimated that at least 232,000 deaths could have been prevented among unvaccinated adults during the 15 months had they been vaccinated with at least a primary series. While uncertainties exist regarding the exact number of preventable deaths and more granular data are needed on other factors causing differences in death rates between the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups to inform these estimates, this method is a rapid assessment on vaccine-preventable deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 that has crucial public health implications.

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While the tetanus vaccine offers full protection, treatment with immunoglobulins can lead to treatment failures... Too often treatement delays with immunoglobulins may not provide the expected results...

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mRNA vaccine technology was not invented for COVID-19. It was already the product of approximately 30 years of research.

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccine technology uses synthetic mRNA to give a person’s cells temporary instructions to produce a specific protein.

The immune system recognizes the protein and develops antibody and T-cell responses. The mRNA is then rapidly broken down. It does not enter the cell nucleus or alter DNA.

A technology developed over decades

mRNA technology was not invented by one person or institution. It emerged through contributions from researchers around the world.

Key milestones included:

• 1970s–1980s: Scientists demonstrated that synthetic mRNA could direct cells to produce proteins.

• 1990: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison showed that injected mRNA could produce proteins in living animals.

• 1990s–2000s: Researchers worked to overcome rapid mRNA degradation and excessive inflammation.

• 2005: Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated that modifying certain RNA building blocks could reduce unwanted immune reactions and improve protein production.

Their discoveries helped make modern mRNA vaccines practical and earned them the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Its original applications extended far beyond COVID-19

Researchers initially investigated mRNA technology for:

1. Cancer immunotherapy
Personalized vaccines designed to train the immune system to recognize and attack tumor-specific proteins.

2. Protein-replacement therapy
Using mRNA to help cells temporarily produce missing or defective proteins.

3. Vaccines against infectious diseases
Including influenza, rabies, Zika and cytomegalovirus.

By the 2010s, companies such as Moderna and BioNTech were already conducting clinical trials involving mRNA treatments and vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases.

Why were COVID-19 vaccines developed so quickly?

The scientific platform already existed.

When the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 became available, researchers adapted an mRNA platform developed and tested over decades to produce instructions for the coronavirus spike protein.

Large-scale funding, overlapping clinical-trial phases and accelerated manufacturing also reduced delays without eliminating required safety and efficacy evaluations.

Today, mRNA technology continues to be studied for:

• Influenza, RSV and CMV vaccines
• Personalized cancer vaccines
• Therapeutic protein delivery
• Certain rare genetic diseases

COVID-19 represented the first widespread commercial success of mRNA vaccines—not the beginning of the technology.

The larger story is one of decades of research, persistence and international collaboration.

#mRNA #Biotechnology #Vaccines #CancerResearch #MedicalInnovation #Science

RFK Jr. is not a physician. He is not a scientist. He is not a medical researcher. He lacks the training, credentials, and expertise to provide authoritative guidance on public health, vaccines, or infectious diseases.
Expertise matters! | 28 comments on LinkedIn

COVID-19 VACCINES: WHAT A META-ANALYSIS ACTUALLY SHOWS

The scientific answer is neither “the vaccines worked perfectly” nor “they did not work.” Effectiveness depends on the outcome measured, the circulating variant, time since vaccination, prior infection, vaccine type, and the population studied.

An umbrella review should not combine every published percentage into one grand average. Many studies reuse overlapping populations and measure different endpoints in different viral eras. A single pooled number would therefore create false precision.

The strongest causal evidence comes from randomized controlled trials. A 2023 meta-analysis of 27 trials estimated pooled efficacy of 76.5% against symptomatic COVID-19; the estimate for mRNA vaccines was 85.5%. However, heterogeneity was very high, and individual trials recorded too few severe cases and deaths to estimate those endpoints precisely. The trials also largely predated Omicron.

Thus, the original “about 95% effective” claim was not a promise of permanent, universal immunity. It described particular mRNA vaccines, against symptomatic disease, during a specific follow-up period and viral environment.

The defensible conclusion from the randomized evidence is that the first vaccines substantially reduced symptomatic COVID-19 in the conditions under which they were tested. The trials did not establish that vaccinated people could never be infected, transmit the virus, or require later doses.

That distinction—between a demonstrated but bounded effect and an unlimited claim—is essential to evaluating both promotional claims and skeptical counterclaims.

#COVID19 #Vaccines #PublicHealth #EvidenceBasedMedicine #MetaAnalysis

People ask me all the time: “Why are doctors only talking about vaccines? Don’t you have anything else to talk about?”

We do.

As pediatricians, we care about sleep, nutrition, menta

Intemperate, defensive, combative.
August 2 video, Forbes Breaking News on YouTube.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr. spoke with CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday about vaccines and pandemics.

#vaccinesafety #measles #coronavirus #publichealth

📊 A new Nature feature asks whether the "crisis of trust in science" is really a crisis at all. The data tell a more nuanced story.

Globally, trust in science remains high: a 68-country survey of nearly 72,000 people found a moderately high average trust score of 3.6 out of 5, and scientists still rank alongside doctors and teachers as among the most trusted professions. But the picture fractures when you look closer: at political polarisation, at specific issues, and at who else people are turning to for answers.

"There has definitely been a growing number of people who question widely accepted scientific evidence," says VCP Director Heidi Larson. "We've always had dissenters, but it's been very much more on the fringe."

Trust in science, as Heidi notes in the piece, has to be understood in context with who else people trust: family, friends, faith leaders, online communities. That redistribution of trust, not its collapse, is the real story.

Aggregate confidence can look stable while the ground shifts underneath it. Understanding where and why it shifts is where the work lies.

#TrustInScience #VaccineConfidence #PublicHealth #HealthCommunication #GlobalHealth #ScienceCommunication 🌐💙

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