Hésitations Vaccinales: Observatoire HESIVAXs

Folks like Rand Paul and Mel Gibson are trying to rewrite the history of COVID, making you think that vaccines were the problem. Don't believe their pandemic revisionism.

Did you know that many of the vaccine injury cases in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and Vaccine Court are actually found to have Dravet syndrome? They are not caused by vaccines!

Excellent travail du comité citoyen sur la lutte contre la désinformation en santé
https://lnkd.in/e-fQHnM7

On y retrouve, de façon très structurée, les points essentiels que nous avions soulevés dans notre rapport avec Dominique Costagliola Herve Maisonneuve
avec une véritable appropriation des concepts par des représentants de nos concitoyens.

Les axes sont clairs et cohérents :

🔹 Éducation
🔹 Formation
🔹 Information
🔹 Sanction

Avec des propositions concrètes :
– Privilégier la bonne information plutôt que prétendre combattre chaque désinformation++++
– Soutenir le développement d’un « indice de fiabilité santé » (une sorte d’info-score santé 😉)
– Mettre en place une cartographie des actions des acteurs institutionnels en matière d’information en santé ( comme un annuaire d’experts 🧐)
– Structurer une plateforme d’information accessible et identifiable
– Sanctionner les désinformateurs
– Réguler les plateformes
- Alerte sur les pratiques non conventionnelles…

L’essentiel est là avec, en bonus, plusieurs suggestions pertinentes qui enrichissent utilement le débat.
Bravo à tous !!!!!!!

Le diagnostic est désormais largement partagé.
La feuille de route se précise.

👉 On arrête d’observer et on retrousse les manches pour passer à l’action ?

La mobilisation doit être collective et l’engagement politique, à la hauteur des attentes citoyennes

Ministère de la Santé, Stephanie RIST , Yannick NEUDER, Lise ALTER Line FARAH Fabrice Moreau , Rachel Duriez, Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Espace, Emmanuel Touzé, Frédéric Valletoux, Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, Karine Berger

💉 Pharmacovigilance Case Study: Monitoring Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI)

As a pharmacy student, studying real clinical cases helps us understand how important pharmacovigilance is in ensuring patient safety.

📌 Case Scenario:
A 6-year-old child received the Measles-Rubella Vaccine during a routine immunization program. Within 24 hours, the child developed mild fever and redness at the injection site.

🔍 Clinical Evaluation:
The healthcare team evaluated the symptoms and identified them as a common Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFI). Such reactions are generally mild and occur due to the body’s immune response to the vaccine.

⚕️ Management:
The child was given Paracetamol to manage fever and was advised rest and hydration.

📊 Outcome:
The symptoms resolved within 48 hours without any complications. The case was documented and reported as part of the pharmacovigilance monitoring system to ensure vaccine safety surveillance.

📚 Learning Point:
This case highlights the importance of monitoring, documenting, and reporting AEFI to maintain public confidence in vaccination programs.

💡 Key Takeaway:
Pharmacovigilance plays a critical role in identifying and managing vaccine-related adverse events, ensuring both drug safety and public health protection.

#Pharmacovigilance #AEFI #Pharmacology #PharmacyStudent #DrugSafety #PublicHealth #Vaccines

Michael Campbell, Golfer, speaks out about his vaccine injury. Dom actually states that all of us, who stood for freedom of choice, should be respected. What was the worst thing someone said to you during the mandates? Forgive, but never forget. | 26 comments on LinkedIn

Can we bill RFK Jr and all the anti-vaxxers for these costs?!

Le CNRS nous offre un dossier complet sur la désinformation.
Dans ce dossier, il y a l'article de Fabien Trécourt, « IA : détecter le vague pour mieux voir le fake », qui m'a percuté car il rejoint le rapport de Steen Søndergaard, Chief Scientist de l’OTAN, dont nous avons parlé cette semaine sur la guerre cognitive.

L’article explique comment des outils d’analyse du langage peuvent aider à repérer le “vague” dans les discours : formulations imprécises, généralisations, ambiguïtés, absence de sources clairement identifiables.

➡️ Ce point est intéressant. Une information trompeuse ne repose pas nécessairement sur une affirmation fausse. Elle peut aussi reposer sur des formulations suffisamment floues pour éviter la réfutation directe. Une affirmation vague est beaucoup plus difficile à contester qu’une affirmation précise.

Autrement dit, le problème du fake ne se situe pas seulement dans le faux (ça je le savais)

Mais :

💡Il se situe aussi dans la manière dont l’incertitude est introduite dans le langage .

C’est précisément ce que rappelle le rapport du Chief Scientist de l’OTAN sur la guerre cognitive : certaines stratégies informationnelles ne visent pas uniquement à diffuser de fausses informations, mais à saturer l’environnement informationnel, brouiller les repères et créer de la complexité, afin de perturber la compréhension des événements et la prise de décision.

Dans cette perspective, le vague n’est pas un simple défaut du discours.
Il peut devenir un instrument efficace pour installer le doute et la confusion.
L’article du CNRS apporte ainsi un éclairage utile : comprendre les mécanismes linguistiques du flou peut aider à mieux analyser les dynamiques contemporaines de désinformation.

#EnjeuxSensibles #GuerreCognitive #Désinformation #Vago #Incertitude


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Who do you trust for public health information and advice? If you are like most people, it ain't RFK Jr!

💉 Pharmacovigilance des vaccins : la formation qui fait la différence 🌍

Ravie d'avoir participé le 6 mars au Webinaire 1 organisé par le Rabat Collaborating Center (RCC) dans le cadre du projet OPT-MVAC (Optimising Malaria Vaccine Uptake), réunissant 14 pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest et Centrale pour optimiser le déploiement des vaccins antipaludéens.
Une session de grande qualité, facilitée par Dr Ghita Benabdallah en présence d'expertes de renom : Dr Houda Sefiani Mouaddib & Pr Bouchra Meddah & Pr Rachida Soulaymani Bencheikh.

Parce que la sécurité vaccinale est un impératif de santé publique 🙏

💉🌍 Vaccine pharmacovigilance: the training that makes a difference.
Thrilled to have joined on March 6th the Webinar 1 organized by the Rabat Collaborating Center (RCC) as part of the OPT-MVAC (Optimising Malaria Vaccine Uptake) project, across 14 West and Central African countries to optimize the rollout of malaria vaccines.

A truly insightful session, facilitated by @Ghita Benabdellah, with leading experts Dr Houda Sefiani & Pr Bouchra Meddah & Pr Rachida Soulaymani Bencheikh

Because vaccine safety is a public health imperative. 🙏

#VaccineSafety • #Pharmacovigilance • #MalariaVaccine • #OPTMVAC • #PublicHealth

"Idaho leaders are vocal about the importance of preserving residents’ “medical freedom”: the ability to make their own decisions about their health, free from government mandates or interference.
...
But on Wednesday, they took a very different approach. Sen. Brandon Shippy, R-New Plymouth, proposed a bill that would bar children and pregnant women in Idaho from getting mRNA vaccines, including the COVID-19 vaccine, for the next two years. A two-year “moratorium” on administering the vaccine would allow time for state lawmakers to review “available safety data” about the vaccine, according to the bill’s statement of purpose. Such a ban, if signed into law, would infringe on pregnant patients’ medical freedom, and on parents’ right to choose their children’s medical treatment, Susie Keller, the head of the Idaho Medical Association, told the Idaho Statesman. “Idaho physicians are very, very concerned about this legislation,” which would “take away desired and chosen therapies from people who want it for themselves or for their children,” she said. “I think it very inappropriately puts the Legislature in the position of deciding which FDA-approved therapies Idaho patients can have, even if their physician thinks that that’s right for them and the patient chooses” to use it, she added."

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We’ve been calling for the COVID shots to be removed from the market for over 5 years. Share this article with anyone who wants to take a simple, courageous action to have them pulled off the market.

We need clear guidance for discussing vaccines with families. They want to know and DESERVE to know what the science says about the vaccines for their children at different ages and different vulnerabilities.

-How DID #SharedClinicalDecisionMaking work successfully in the past for a small group of vaccines?

-What was different about those vaccines from the very beginning?

-Why doesn't #SCDM make sense for the recent CDC changes in vaccine recommendations?

-Is there science behind presumptive approach to vaccine communication?

Jake Scott goes through the science and this is an explanation that I believe every primary care physician (in family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics) should read. We need to understand the bread and butter issues of preventive medicine.

#VaccineTalk

Massachusetts Medical Society
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Family Physicians
American College of Physicians
National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
National Association of School Nurses

The spread of wild anti-vax conspiracy theories continues here on LinkedIn /LinkedIn Help !

"Shasta and Riverside counties are working to contain localized outbreaks. These are the first measles outbreaks in the state since 2020 and are happening at a time when health departments have less money and fewer staff than in recent years. Multiple counties have reported a total of over 20 measles cases this year, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Placer County alerted residents on Monday of three confirmed cases and one suspected, all within one family. Officials said the “risk to the general public remains low.” They did not disclose the vaccination status of the family.”
Throughout the country, 26 states have reported measles cases since the start of the year, including a massive outbreak in South Carolina where officials identified nearly 1,000 cases, mostly among unvaccinated children. It is the largest outbreak since theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention declared measles eradicated more than 25 years ago.
“The United States is experiencing the highest numbers of measles cases, outbreaks, hospitalizations and deaths in more than 30 years, driven by populations with low vaccination rates,” said California Public Health Officer Dr. Erica Pan in a statement earlier this month. “We all need to work together to share the medical evidence, benefits, and safety of vaccines to provide families the information they need to protect children and our communities.”
Containment comes with high costs
Investigating any communicable disease is time-intensive and expensive. The first three measles cases reported in L.A. County this year cost an estimated $231,000, according to a health department analysis. "
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Who do you trust re: health? And how do you access trustworthy health information? I'm spending a lot of time working on these questions, but this week, a few things moved me forward in leaps & bounds:

1️⃣ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐥: We talk a lot about how the public’s decline in trust regarding health science & health agencies predates the pandemic. It worsened during COVID-19, particularly amongst people who self-identified as Republican. Now a new poll ( 🔗 below) shows trust is dropping further - amongst everyone! (This data, btw, mirrors that from other organizations, such as Pew Research Center, KFF, and Edelman Trust Institute.)

INSIGHT: People trust career scientists, medical orgs, & primary care docs far more than current political appointees in providing “trustworthy information about matters concerning public health.”
QUESTION: But 𝘩𝘰𝘸 do people get info from these sources?

2️⃣ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫: New pub in The Lancet Group from my colleagues Jeremy Faust Michael Barnett showed a dramatic, but temporary, drop in Tylenol (aka acetaminophen or paracetamol) use in US emergency depts, only amongst pregnant patients, after the Sept '25 White House press conference telling pregnant women that acetaminophen caused autism. PS: The FDA quietly walked back the most extreme guidance the following day, as it was overblown and untrue.

As I commented to The Washington Post Lauren Weber, the paper is most interesting because it provides evidence on the dangers of an unprepared bully pulpit in hurting health behaviors - but also has implications about the drop in trust. ( 🔗 to pub and WaPo articles below)

INSIGHT: People listened to the federal authorities... for a bit...
QUESTION: How can we harness whatever reminded people that acetaminophen really is the best & safest rx for fever/pain in pregnancy, to help w/other health behaviors?

3️⃣ 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞-𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐃𝐀: Vinay Prasad is out, again. More to come on that, but it's very much about trust & trustworthiness in government health agencies.

4️⃣ 𝐀 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭: Finally, I'm a little behind in my podcast listening, but Derek Thompson's Feb 17th Plain English episode w/Joe Weisenthal on “The media theory that explains 99% of everything” kind of blew my mind, in light of all of the above.

You may not think it's about trust & health... but gosh, it is!! It's all about how we learn (we've gone back to Homeric oral traditions) and how things get saved (AI will destroy trust in archives) and how we might move forward. You must listen.

INSIGHT: Coming off of my discussion w/ Mikhail Varshavski as part of our Yale School of Public Health conference on Rebuilding Trust, I know bemoaning the trends is not enough. We also need individual agency & action.

QUESTION: What would help you, gentle reader, step into the call-and-response, non-linear, post-literate, "wine-dark sea" world in which we now live?

💖 Much more to come on this... including some tangible tools for action! | 18 comments on LinkedIn

Donner la parole aux experts dans leur domaine d’expertise

All polls say Americans support getting kids vaccinated and protected. The poll that says 80% of Americans believe in the right to refuse vaccines is misleading. https://buff.ly/SpItDPV #StopAntiVaxPropaganda

Declining measles immunity isn't just a health crisis — it's a $1.5 billion threat.

An alarming new report from the Yale School of Public Health reveals a staggering financial consequence for the United States if measles vaccination rates continue to decline. Researchers found that even a marginal 1% annual decrease in coverage over the next five years could result in an economic burden of $1.5 billion every single year. Using mathematical models based on county-level vaccination data, the study predicts a sharp rise in infections and hospitalizations, forcing the nation to face massive expenditures to contain outbreaks that were once thought to be under control.

The financial toll extends far beyond hospital bills, with public health response efforts like surveillance and contact tracing expected to consume $947 million annually. Furthermore, the American workforce could see more than $510.4 million in lost productivity as illness and quarantine measures sideline employees and caregivers. With basic medical costs for patients projected at $41.1 million, the report highlights a sobering reality: the expense of managing a resurgent epidemic far outweighs the cost of preventative care.

Source:
Yale School of Public Health. (2026). The Health and Economic Repercussions of Declining MMR Coverage in the United States. Yale University. | 222 comments on LinkedIn

During the COVID pandemic and afterward, I grew concerned about the vaccine-related litigation I saw arising in the courts. In addition to the threat to public health protection, I noticed fundamental problems with how science and evidence were being characterized by plaintiffs who want to undermine vaccine policy. And there have been instances where the way courts are approaching these cases are deeply troubling.

With the ascendance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to HHS Secretary, the importance of the courts in protecting sound vaccine policy has only grown.

In this piece, Kyla Perrotta (Portnoy) and I wrote about the current vaccine litigation landscape.

https://lnkd.in/ggKxt343

🔎📰 MISINFORMATION ON VACCINES ALERT ⚠️
When a “knowledge gap” is NOT a knowledge gap

In this month’s Nonspecific Vaccine Effects Journal Club  we will review a scientific manuscript in which the authors propose eight post-market randomized trials on childhood vaccines and present them as ethically justified responses to “𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠.”

The manuscript is a preprint and was made available online on 25 July 2025.
As you are about to see many of the headline “𝑢𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠.”  are not unresolved in the way the authors claim.
This goes for:
💉 The measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism
💉 Aluminum adjuvants and chronic neurodevelopmental harm
💉 Human papilloma virus vaccines and syndromes like postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)

These are presented as open questions. They are not ‼️

What the paper calls “𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑝𝑠” are, in several cases, better understood as attempts to reopen questions that have already been extensively investigated in the scientific literature.

This misframing has consequences 💉 🌍
Once uncertainty is exaggerated, placebo and delayed-vaccination trials can be presented as ethically reasonable. But without genuine clinical equipoise, they are not.
A proposed trial is not ethical simply because it is randomized.
And controversy is not the same thing as equipoise.

The current issue of the Nonspecific Vaccine Effects Journal Club unpacks this in detail: the evidence, the rhetoric of manufactured uncertainty, and the ethical flaws in the proposed trial designs.

Happy reading 🔎 📰

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: https://lnkd.in/dyFaQQHG

𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐕𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛
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Vaccines save lives, but only if you can access them. 💜

For International Women’s Day, we’re looking at why gender inequality remains one of the biggest roadblocks to global health. From 'time poverty' to a lack of financial autonomy, women and girls face unique structural barriers that prevent them from accessing routine immunisation for themselves and their children.

Dig into each of these seven gender-driven barriers to vaccine access on our Vaccines Work platform: https://bit.ly/4ufY60E



#IWD2026

Après nos deux premiers articles du dossier portant sur le mouvement d'opposition à la vaccination à travers l'épidémiologie et le droit, mais aussi l'histoire, nous nous sommes intéressés à la dimension sociologique. L'objectif ? Comprendre et décrypter ce qui se cache derrière l'étiquette « antivax ». Mr Mondialisation a fait le point pour vous. Dans

It’s hard to think that anyone would be excited about news that sales of Gardasil, the vaccine that prevents cervical cancer, are down, especially when they are up 9%! Is Del Bigtree Excited That More Women Will Get Cervical Cancer?