Vaccines Save Lives…

In this world where anti-vaxxers with loud megaphones pollute the social
media ether with disinformation, misinformation and outright conspiracies, push untested “wellness” alternatives (at a profit on their websites), and insist that the right to choose overpowers the need to protect - it is helpful to recognize the outsized impact childhood vaccines have had on lives saved.

Adding insult to injury is the inexplicable choice to the most important public health position in government to an environmental lawyer with a history of bizarre behaviors - dropping a bear cub carcass in Central Park, beheading a whale with a chainsaw or self debating himself - a declared anti-vaxxer with zero medical knowledge (“I don’t think people should be taking advice - medical advice from me”) who is on a baseless and capricious power trip to “reshape” the CDC and FDA, prioritizing ideology over scientific evidence.

Well, I shall let the data speak for itself…..

#childhoodvaccines #rfkjr #antivaxxer #livessaved

A new ethics policy paper from the American College of Physicians argues that referring to physicians as “providers” undermines the ethical foundation of the patient‑physician relationship and fails to reflect physicians’ training, responsibilities, and professional role. 

The paper calls for language that preserves clinical integrity, transparency, and professionalism in health care and recommends referring to professionals with varied medical credentials as clinicians or health care professionals. Read the paper here: https://bit.ly/4kMsHi9

Merci Helen Petousis-Harris important d’expliquer les mécanismes et de réfuter des affirmations péremptoires

Sur cette capture, on voit :
👉 le canal « Louis Fouché Officiel »
👉 qui relaie la promotion d’une BD co-écrite par Nicolas Fraisse (« Je sors de mon corps et alors ? »),
👉 avec séance de dédicace en librairie.

Or Nicolas Fraisse est connu pour ses récits de sorties hors du corps présentés comme réels, largement utilisés dans les milieux :
• spiritualistes,
• ésotériques,
• et pseudo-scientifiques.

Quand Louis Fouché relaie ce contenu, il ne s’agit pas juste d’un coup de pub culturel :
➡️ il contribue à légitimer ces récits
➡️ auprès d’un public déjà sensible aux discours alternatifs
➡️ en brouillant la frontière entre :
fiction / croyance / réalité scientifique.

C’est exactement le même mécanisme que pour :
• la santé « alternative »,
• les récits d’expériences extraordinaires non démontrées,
• les figures présentées comme témoins plutôt que comme auteurs de fiction.

On est dans une stratégie de normalisation :
📌 « ce n’est qu’une BD »
📌 « ce n’est qu’un témoignage »
📌 « ce n’est que du partage »

… alors que ça diffuse un imaginaire présenté comme crédible.

Beyond the Needle: Understanding Vaccine Acceptance

In some schools, children showed up already instructed 
“Don’t take it.”
“Something bad will happen.”
“Just refuse.”

This resistance didn’t come from nowhere.
It came from fear.
From past experiences.
From mistrust.
From misinformation passed quietly from adult to child.

As public health professionals, it’s easy to focus on coverage numbers and targets. But moments like this remind us that vaccination is not just a medical intervention, it’s a trust intervention.

People don’t resist vaccines because they hate health.
They resist because they don’t feel safe, informed, or included.

So the question is not just “How do we vaccinate more children?”
It’s “How do we communicate better with parents, caregivers, and communities?”

Some lessons worth reflecting on:
• Information alone is not enough context matters
• Fear grows in silence , engagement reduces resistance
• Communities trust familiar voices more than institutions

If we want better outcomes, we must:
• Start conversations earlier, not at the point of injection
• Work with schools, religious leaders, and community influencers
• Replace medical jargon with simple, honest explanations
• Listen not just educate

Vaccine hesitancy is not a failure of science.It’s a signal that trust still needs work.And trust is built person by person, conversation by conversation.

#PublicHealth #Vaccination #MeaslesRubella #HealthCommunication #VaccineConfidence #CommunityEngagement #NigeriaPublicHealth

Studies show the #fluvaccine may not reduce demand on hospitals. Are flu vaccine mandates science-based? Read PIC’s “9 Flu Vaccine Facts” and decide for yourself: picdata.org/flu-vaccine

#informedconsent #vaccines

I joined forces with Katie Suleta to champion something medicine needs now more than ever: strong, evidence-based science communication skills! As a medical educator, I know firsthand that embedding science communication training into the medical education curriculum is an essential step toward training the next generation to navigate uncertainty and communicate with empathy to rebuild and strengthen public trust in science and medicine.

Now is the time for universities and academia at large to make science communication a part of graduate and professional training.

Prebunking Harmful Social Media Content: Establishing Cognitive Immunology through Preventive Moderation (ACIS 2025 Proceedings):

https://lnkd.in/dVza7zK5

Glimpse: By employing a future-focused prebunking intervention to enhance cognitive resilience against authoritarian and extremist information, this study suggests a preventive strategy for harmful social media content. Prebunking was contrasted with netiquette instruction and control circumstances in two online tests. Prebunking outperforms typical treatments in reducing authoritarian attitudes and increasing intentions to report harmful content, according to the results. The results demonstrate how proactive, cognitively based tactics might strengthen digital resistance and supplement reactive material control.

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Let's take a look at all of the kids who have died in the latest measles outbreak in Israel - kids who were previously healthy and unvaccinated.

Kenya is watching life-saving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines expire on the shelves, even as cervical cancer continues to kill thousands of women every year.
According to obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Nelly Bosire, the country is “not doing very well” in meeting the World Health Organisation’s 2030 elimination target. The paradox is that the vaccine is free and widely available, yet demand remains dangerously low.
To accelerate uptake, the Ministry of Health has transitioned from a two-dose to a single-dose human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine schedule for children aged 10 to 14.

#HPVVaccine #CervicalCancer #PublicHealth #KenyaHealth #WomenHealth #CancerPrevention #HealthCommunication #EndCervicalCancer

La comédienne, suivie par plus de 300 000 personnes sur le réseau social Instagram, a partagé mardi une publication vidéo critiquant les mesures de l'état d'urgence sanitaire. Dans les commentaires, elle évoque une thèse sur Bill Gates directement venue des milieux complotistes.

📢 Healthcare professionals urge European countries to increase vaccination coverage and tackle misinformation

🌍 The Coalition for Vaccination is concerned that the success of vaccine protection may be in danger, due to vaccine hesitancy, vaccine shortages, misinformation and disinformation, and structural barriers to access within healthcare systems

⚡ Losing protection could have dangerous consequences for individuals and population groups

🏛️ The Coalition for Vaccination supports the European Commission’s continued work, alongside Member States, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and European Medicines Agency, to:
- Provide clear, accessible, and evidence-based information
- Actively counter misinformation and disinformation
- Support national vaccination strategies based on scientific evidence
- Provide adequate education and continuing professional development for healthcare professionals,
- Monitor the performance of immunisation programmes
- Advance a European digital vaccination card
- Improve transparency in vaccine approval processes
- Strengthen independent, national and EU-wide vaccine safety surveillance.

➡️ Read the full statement here: https://lnkd.in/eHyGrnsp

#CoalitionForVaccination #VaccinesWork

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Oral vaccines offer protection to newborn babies against severe infections and follow the same route into the digestive system as many bacteria.

Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Professor Julie Bines spoke to The Scientist magazine about this needle-free delivery system and the advantages of oral vaccines in low resource countries.

These vaccines pose unique challenges such as surviving the digestive tract to ensure targeted release and navigating how breastmilk can interfere with their effectiveness.

Professor Bines also explained how her team, led by the late Professor Ruth Bishop, developed and tested an oral rotavirus vaccine (RV3-BB) that can protect young children against severe gastroenteritis.

Read the full story 👉 https://lnkd.in/gs7242jY

#MCRI #MedicalResearch #Vaccination

Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) posted images on LinkedIn