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It was not journalism that was affected. It was a new breed of pseudo-journalism based on misinformation that emerged. One where pseudo-self-claimed experts tried to flood the social media space. Be reminded that the only significant contribution to science from these individuals should have been their silence.
Investigative journalism should be fact-based and science-based, not relying on anecdotes or unproven theories. Journalism should always check sources for credibility. Assess such and then, if appropriate publish. If not, not publish. These misinformation pushers may call being silenced censorship. I would call this journalistic critical appraisal and responsability… Vejon Health Ltd and its director may be among those where the lack of credibility may push you to consider more appropriate sources of information as appropriate information…

A generation ago, pediatric wards filled up every winter with babies dangerously dehydrated from rotavirus.

Most young pediatricians today have never seen that.

That didn’t happen naturally. It happened because of vaccination.

Before the rotavirus vaccine, about 70,000 children in the U.S. were hospitalized every year with severe dehydration. Parents couldn’t keep fluids down. Babies needed IVs. Entire wards revolved around this one virus.
After vaccination, those hospitalizations dropped to near zero.

The U.S. recently shifted rotavirus vaccination from a standard recommendation to “shared clinical decision-making.” On the surface, that sounds thoughtful. In reality, pediatricians are worried we’re reopening the door to a disease we already solved.

Rotavirus never disappeared. We just stopped it.

Doctors who trained before the vaccine remember what those winters looked like. If enough families opt out, hospitalizations will return quickly. This isn’t theoretical.

It’s what happens when population-level protection erodes.

The evidence is not subtle:
• Around 30 million illnesses prevented
• 819,000 hospitalizations avoided
• About 400 child deaths averted over 16 years
• Roughly a 94% reduction in severe disease and ER visits in clinical trials

Yes, the vaccine carries a small risk of intussusception. About 1 to 2 cases per 100,000 doses. What often gets left out is that rotavirus infection itself can cause intussusception, meaning vaccination prevents many of those cases as well.

This isn’t just about medically fragile children. Any infant can become dangerously dehydrated from rotavirus. That’s why pediatricians across the country are uneasy.

What’s also hard to ignore is how this policy change happened. No CDC advisory committee vote. No public discussion. No transparent review of the evidence. A sweeping change affecting millions of children, made quietly.
We’ve seen this pattern before.

When prevention becomes optional, disease doesn’t politely stay away.
The real question isn’t whether rotavirus will come back if vaccination rates drop. The virus is already circulating. The question is how many hospital beds need to fill again before we admit we unlearned a hard-earned lesson.

We eliminated a major cause of pediatric hospitalization once.

Undoing that isn’t a neutral experiment.

It’s a risk children will bear.

MAHA…in action! If this is “healthy”, I dont want it.

Join us as we delve into the effectiveness of COVID vaccines, exploring the science behind their development and the impact they've had on the global pandemic. With a critical eye, we examine the data and expert opinions to answer the question: did COVID vaccines really work? From vaccine efficacy rates to real-world outcomes, this video takes a comprehensive look at the role of vaccines in combating COVID-19. Whether you're looking for a deeper understanding of vaccine science or seeking to separate fact from fiction, this video aims to provide a balanced and informative perspective on one of the most critical public health issues of our time.

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I periodically post about the ongoing risks of #COVID19 that most are ignoring. The world changed in 2020 and didn't go back to “normal.” Over time, repeated COVID infections are affecting the health of more people. We know this not just from the thousands of research studies published on COVID's chronic symptoms and damage but also from real-world economic and health data.

I visit this Federal Reserve chart every few months. It shows the number of people with disabilities in the civilian labor force. The chart below is set to index (at 100) on the earliest data for which data is available, June 2008. And, as it happens, we were at that same index level in April 2020, amid the shutdowns and isolation of the pandemic.

But something strange has been happening in the US since January 2021. Around the time we decided vaccines were sterilizing, we could rip off the masks, and we could return to normal, disabilities started rising abruptly. And, most crucially, they've never stopped. We now have 55% more disabled people in the workforce than we did before the pandemic. A year ago we had 45% more, the year before that 40% more, and the year before that 30% more.

What changed in 2020 and 2021 that could cause disabilities to rise, and what is continuing to happen that would encourage disabilities to keep rising in 2023, 2024, and 2025? It wasn't the masks we wore four years ago. It isn't vaccines, since vaccination rates have plunged. (No more than one in four Americans has been vaccinated in any of the last three years.) It isn't microplastics (which have been around for decades). What keeps occurring that would cause disabilities to rise to historic levels?

Clearly, population-level changes to health and well-being are complex. While many things COULD contribute to this, the ONE THING we know fundamentally changed since 2021 is that COVID continues to surge twice a year, cause reinfections, and is associated with cognitive damage, fatigue, higher rates of cardiovascular issues, and impaired immune systems.

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COVID and flu risks are quite high in the US currently. If you have a New Year's resolution to improve your health, take some care this weekend and do what you can to start 2026 healthy. | 35 comments on LinkedIn

The newest anti-vaxxer strategy: calling out posts which are calling out their misinformation and lies... It does not change the facts : both HCQ and ivermectin were proven to be ineffective drugs in COVID. Regardless of the claims made by McCullough Foundation, the facts remain. These drugs simply don`t work.

Enough of the vaccine misinformation on LinkedIn. The platform must clean itself of such. They did ban McCullough Foundation last fall only to see it come back with even mor

En Suède, les femmes vaccinées contre le HPV protègent aussi les réfractaires aux injections.

Une étude de cohorte nationale suédoise, récemment publiée dans la revue The Lancet Group Public Health, vient apporter de nouvelles données sur l’effet de l’immunité collective. En analysant plus de 850 000 femmes non vaccinées, une équipe de chercheurs du Karolinska Institutet a montré que le risque de lésions précancéreuses du col de l’utérus diminue significativement chez les femmes appartenant à des générations ayant bénéficié d’une vaccination scolaire à forte couverture.

Lorsque la vaccination contre le HPV est largement déployée dès le plus jeune âge, la circulation du virus recule, y compris chez les personnes non vaccinées. Des résultats qui illustrent concrètement le rôle de l’immunité collective et soulignent l’importance de la vaccination dans la prévention des cancers HPV.

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Can you please explain why the posting of dangerous misinformation & disinformation is still tolerated on this site? Thank you.

The risk of viral pathogen transmission between humans and animals (spillover events) and subsequent spread has been increasing due to human impacts on the planet, which lead to changes in the interactions between humans, animals, ecosystems and their pathogens. Key factors (drivers) that increase the risk of disease emergence include climate change, urbanization, land-use changes and global travel, all of which can alter human–animal–environment interactions and increase the likelihood of zoonotic spillovers and vector-borne diseases. Incorporating data on these drivers (such as ecological shifts and patterns of animal movement) into disease surveillance systems can help identify hot spots for disease emergence, which could in theory enable earlier detection of outbreaks and, in turn, increase the effectiveness of intervention strategies. A One Health approach, emphasizing the interconnectedness of human, animal and environmental health, is advocated for addressing these complex challenges. Although conceptually clear and widely endorsed, implementation of One Health approaches towards primary prevention of spillovers is extremely challenging. Here, we summarize current knowledge on disease emergence and its drivers, and discuss how this knowledge could be used towards primary prevention and for the development of risk-targeted One Health early warning surveillance. We consider integrating innovative tools for diagnostics, surveillance and virus characterization, and propose an outlook towards more integrated prevention, early warning and control of emerging infections at the human–animal interface. In this Review, Sikkema and Koopmans examine the drivers of viral emergence and how these insights could inform prevention strategies and the development of risk-targeted One Health early warning surveillance. They discuss tools for diagnostics, surveillance and virus characterization, and propose strengthening integrated One Health strategies for early warning, prevention and control of emerging infections at the human–animal interface.

Ignorance, bad faith or stupidity... Maybe the guy should have checked his sources, and get a better German translator. And mind his own business...

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As mentioned by a pediatrician, « I heard from a parent just this week: "What vaccines are recommended now? I am so confused." This uncertainty is coming from families who previously made confident decisions to vaccinate. Amid fewer universally recommended vaccinesopens in a new tab or window and a vague emphasis on "shared clinical decision-making," the consistent theme in parents' concern is federal messaging that signals ambiguity without a clear explanation. »

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Chez certaines personnes, les réponses immunitaires liées à une infection ou une vaccination contre la Covid-19 pourraient avoir des effet sur des cellules cancéreuses dormantes ou existantes. .

Debate with RFK Jr : why ? As RFK Jr said himself : ¨he doesn't think people should take medical advice from him.¨ As well, as he stated: his views on vaccines are irrelevant...
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that he doesn't "think people should be taking advice — medical advice — from me."
Watch in our video player above.
"That's kind of your jurisdiction," said Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisc., in response.
Kennedy's comments came during a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee on the Trump administration's budget request for 2026. Pocan had asked the secretary if he had a child today, would he vaccinate that child for measles. "Um… probably for measles," Kennedy said before making his comment about his own advice. He also suggested that his own views about vaccines are irrelevant.
Kennedy is a former environmental lawyer and not a doctor. For nearly a decade, he led an anti-vaccine advocacy group, Children's Health Defense. As the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, he oversees multiple agencies that affect public health and Americans' access to health care.
Paul Offit should not debate a person like RFK Jr for obvious reasons, one being the guy has no medical knowledge, his views on vaccines are as irrelevant as is Children's Health Defense, and doing so would only give RFK Jr and Children's Health Defense a credibility they do not deserve. As well, from the disastrous experience of Pierre Kory and Steve Kirsch debating with two high school teachers ( Prof Dave), it would be a blood bath where RFK Jr would be demolished, totally. Just look at this to see how a joke such a debate was and would be.

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The officlal HHS Rapid Response account posted a clip of some of HHS Secretary Kennedy's recent remarks. "We all know that trusting the experts is not a feature of science; it’s not a feature of democracy — it’s a feature of tyranny. And a feature of religion. But not science," he said in the below video from HHS Rapid Response.

HHS Secretary Kennedy also oversees the FDA, the CDC and the NIH. On Monday, they suddenly overhauled the US's recommendations for vaccinations including limiting access for US children & adults to a number of FDA-approved vaccines including the meningitis, rotavirus, RSV, HPV, and hepatitis vaccines that have a history of successfully preventing diseases, hospitalizations, and deaths. WSJ, Stat News & Bloomberg are among the news outlets that reported about HHS's vaccine decisions earlier in the week.

Here's a link to the HHS Rapid Response account on X in case business leaders want to see the video clips of Kennedy's remarks and aren't aware of the direction public health is going in the US. When there's a disease epidemic or if there's another pandemic, this is who is leading the US government's response and making the decisions. All US businesses were impacted by the US's lack of a response to Covid in the US in Q1 2020. The later success of the Operation Warp Speed initiative in Q3 and Q4 would be unlikely today with the current HHS leadership based on their track record with measles, whooping cough and flu in 2025. And so far in 2026. https://lnkd.in/eccAW3wa #FDA #CDC #RSV #meningitis #hepatitis #cancer #measles #pertussis

We should put things in persepctive and assess the study refered to in terms of a critical analysis and the limitations of the study. ¨While the strength of our study lies in the paired plasma and mucosal samples across timepoints, the moderate size of our cohorts may limit the interpretation of some observations. Future studies should continue to investigate the impact of subsequent mRNA boosters with larger cohorts and confirm if heterologous priming would indeed limit the overall proportion of class-switched IgG4. Surrogate Fc-dimer binding assays utilised in our study have been previously shown to correlate strongly with cell-based antibody-dependent functional assays, and allow us to study Fc-binding responses in both plasma and saliva. Our data suggests that class-switching from IgG1 to IgG4 may dampen neutralising activity, however future work should confirm its implications on emerging viral variants.¨
What is more costly than vaccination is the misinformation being put forth by some.

The trials to license PCV vaccine, injected at 2, 4 and 6 months of age, raise incredible safety concerns. Here is the proof: | 10 comments on LinkedIn

📍Actualité📍Avec l’arrivée en France de la dermatose nodulaire contagieuse (#DNC), une contestation inédite a émergé, nourrie par des fausses informations et des remises en cause du rôle des #vétérinaires. Dans ce texte, la profession appelle à un « droit de véto » contre la désinformation. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ezUnnTkd | 11 comments on LinkedIn

[#PRODUCTION] | « Psychologie de la désinformation : approche croisée entre cognition individuelle et influence sociale »

✒️ 🇫🇷 Mohamed Amine BELKA 🇪🇺 (Université de Lorraine), Tara DE CONDAPPA, PhD (Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)) et Thibault Renard (CyberCercle) ont récemment publié un article sur la psychologie de la désinformation. En clair :
« ce travail s’est attaché à analyser comment certains processus cognitifs et sociaux modèlent la manière dont les individus perçoivent, interprètent, mais aussi relaient des contenus trompeurs ».

💡 Biais cognitifs, émotions, dynamiques collectives et mécanismes sociaux au sens large sont autant de facteurs pouvant entraîner l'adhésion aux récits trompeurs et à leur circulation dans la sphère publique. Il existe par ailleurs une certaine influence des « minorités actives » (les individus qui adhèrent et relaient les récits manipulés) sur une « majorité passive » mais également sur l'opinion publique au global.

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I wrote this op-ed in MedPage Today in response to recent changes in U.S. vaccine policy that are being framed as efforts to “restore trust.” From the vantage point of a practicing pediatrician and vaccine delivery researcher, the gap between that rhetoric and what is happening in clinics is striking.

If the goal is to rebuild public trust in vaccines, this approach risks doing the opposite while deprioritizing vaccines that prevent life-altering illness and disability in children each year.

Trust is built through clarity, evidence, and consistentcy—not disruption.

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