In the words of Michael Mina, MD, PhD in the Dec 22 NYT opinion article linked below, "These vaccines are not unnecessary interventions but crucial educations to the immune system that support our children as they develop into adults and even older age. A move to reduce their uptake or reduce access would drive unnecessary disease for people we love and aim to care for the most.
It’s one thing to question timing of the vaccines, but to potentially remove the vaccines from a recommendation altogether is not encouraging a more healthy public but inviting disease — disease that we are so lucky to now have generations of people who have never had to think about, specifically because of the vaccine successes."
https://lnkd.in/g_bG2DPb

By mapping the meanings of the words used to communicate emotions across more than one-third of the planet’s spoken languages, a study in Science found that there is significant variation in how emotions are expressed across cultures. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/4s1hL36

Imagine if a public health campaign about the risks of smoking emphasized that the decision to smoke is a personal one.

"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," 12 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 health security" and break sharply from long-standing scientific norms.

What is unfolding inside the FDA is not a narrow dispute over COVID vaccines. It is an attempt, according to critics and vaccine scientists, to rewrite the rules governing the entire U.S. vaccine system—how risks are weighed, how benefits are proved, and how quickly lifesaving shots reach the public. Former agency leaders warn that if these changes take hold, the consequences could be lasting: fewer vaccines, slower updates, weakened public trust, and more preventable outbreaks.

Prasad made clear he sees the moment as corrective. "Never again will the US FDA commissioner have to himself find deaths in children for staff to identify it," he wrote, telling employees the agency's mission, and its "worldview," would change."

"The AAP continued to stand up for science-based vaccine policies and access to vaccines during a hearing in federal court on Wednesday.

Attorneys for the AAP and other medical groups told a U.S. district court judge in Boston that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s changes to immunization schedules and improper appointment of vaccine advisers are causing ongoing harm. The judge is expected to rule in early January if the lawsuit the AAP and other groups filed against Kennedy and other health officials can proceed.

AAP President Susan J. Kressly, M.D., FAAP, said after the hearing that families need strong government leadership and clarity amid a surge in measles cases and the start of respiratory virus season.

“They deserve thoughtful, deliberative guidance grounded in medical evidence,” Dr. Kressly said in a press release. “They deserve access to immunizations for their children without confusion and chaos. And their pediatricians will do all we can — from the clinic to the courthouse — to keep children healthy, to speak up for them and to fight for them.""

Viewpoint: The myth of an over-vaccinated America: The US DOES follow global consensus

"An outspoken attorney for the anti-vaccine movement — whose law firm has filed numerous vaccine-related lawsuits — delivered a jargon-laden presentation for more than 90 minutes about the history of childhood immunization and accused the CDC of recommending shots with insufficient research on potential harms.

Such moments at the two-day meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) prompted incredulity from some vaccine experts, medical associations and Democratic elected officials. They argued that the panel, which for decades has guided access to immunizations, has lost all credibility under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic who has appointed a raft of anti-vaccine activists or critics of immunization policy to federal health positions. After telling senators during a confirmation hearing that he supports the childhood immunization schedule, Kennedy has since taken steps to begin overhauling the series of vaccinations that he has long blamed as a potential cause of childhood illness."
https://wapo.st/4oILc77

Notre journaliste Pierre Yves Bocquet ne pensait pas, en 25 ans de carrière, écrire un jour: "Il est absolument indispensable que toutes les universités soient liquidées." Ces mots sont ceux de Curtis Yarvin, informaticien et père des Dark Enlightenment, un courant de pensée qui s'est autobaptisé "Lumières obscures". “Nous assistons en fait à la fin d’un long cycle qui avait commencé au XVIIIe siècle avec les Lumières”, nous confie Romuald Sciora, directeur de l’Observatoire politique et géostratégique des États-Unis, à l’IRIS - Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques, un peu sidéré. Depuis le retour de Trump à la Maison-Blanche, les universités, les scientifiques, et jusqu’à l’idée même de science font l’objet d’attaques sans précédent aux États-Unis. Des attaques directement inspirées de ce nouveau courant de pensée. Notre article "La guerre contre la science est déclarée" est en libre accès ici : https://lnkd.in/eJZmbQj6
A retrouvez également chez tous les marchands de journaux dans le Hors-Série Epsiloon "Lumière".
Avec également des itw du chercheur en politique environnementale François Gemenne ; Brian Sandberg, professeur d’histoire à la Northern Illinois University; Arnaud Miranda, docteur en théorie politique et spécialiste des pensées réactionnaires au CEVIPOF - Sciences Po; Roger Burrows, professeur à l’école d’études politiques de l’université de Bristol; Benjamin Noys, professeur de théorie critique à l’université de Chichester; William Genieys, chercheur spécialiste des États-Unis au CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée; Romany Webb, chercheuse à la Columbia Law School

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LinkedIn/LinkedIn Help : This question has been posed to you numerous times in the past & no reply has ever been received. Can you please explain why purveyors of dangerous medical disinformation & misinformation such as Children's Health Defense , McCullough Foundation , Vejon Health Ltd aka Dr Philip McMillan & Physicians for Informed Consent to name a very few are permitted to post here?
Thank you.

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Haonan Zhang ,Chaofan Wang,Haijun Zhang,Brian Wahl,Maria Deloria Knoll,Xiaozhen Lai &Hai Fang

Authors: Haonan Zhang, Chaofan Wang, Haijun Zhang, Brian W., Maria Deloria Knoll, Xiaozhen Lai & Hai Fang. Peking University, Yale School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

As 2025 comes to a close, we are reflecting on a year of progress for life-course immunisation in Europe - from strengthening EU-level dialogue to publishing new evidence and expanding expert conversations.
This edition looks back at key moments from the past year and shares what’s taking shape as we move into the next one.
Season’s greetings, and thank you to everyone who has supported our work this year. ✨

"Oregon’s already low kindergarten vaccination rates may worsen after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month stopped recommending the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

Public health experts decried the controversial decision, which overturned 30 years of guidance that cut rates of liver disease and cirrhosis.

Oregon is part of a new public health collaborative with Hawaii, California and Washington, the West Coast Health Alliance, that works to support evidence-based vaccination schedules and policy, and recommends the vaccine.

Compared with those states, however, public health officials here may face a tougher task. By law, Oregon parents can claim both “medical” and “personal” exemptions to leave their children unvaccinated.

At 9.7%, Oregon has the third-highest kindergarten vaccine opt-out rate in the country, nearly triple the nation’s 3.4%. Idaho ranks first (15.1%), followed by Utah (10%)."
https://lnkd.in/gqYRzUXX

As the United States continues to experience outbreaks of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, false rumors wrongly claim that because the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) vaccine is a multi-dose series, the vaccine isn’t effective. Multiple studies have confirmed that the DTaP vaccine is safe, effective and is the best way to protect a child from the serious effects of whooping cough.
  
Key Facts
Pertussis is a highly contagious bacterial infection that causes uncontrollable coughing fits. As infants or children try to catch their breath between coughs, they make a "whooping" sound, which is why pertussis is also called whooping cough.  
The most effective way to protect against whooping cough is immunization with the DTaP vaccine and its boosters. It is given in five doses in infancy through early childhood.
The initial series helps the body develop immunity, and booster doses ensure that protection doesn’t fade over time.  
While DTaP is a vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis, in the U.S., it is typically given as a “combination vaccine to protect against other infections, too. 
Pertussis is especially dangerous for young babies, who are at high risk of hospitalization and death. Around a third of infants under six months old who came down with whooping cough in 2024 required hospitalization.
It is also important that women who are pregnant receive the vaccine to protect newborns. 
Repeated doses of Tdap in adults are not recommended as a primary strategy to reduce the overall burden of pertussis in adults. The vaccine plays a critical role in protecting infants and those most vulnerable, but it's not intended as a routine measure to prevent pertussis in the general adult population.
Complications of pertussis include pneumonia, vomiting, seizures, shortness of breath and apnea, which is when breathing temporarily stops. Infants often turn blue during coughing spells because of lack of oxygen.  
Evidence Snapshot
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whooping cough cases have increased dramatically. In 2024, 35,493 cases were reported — up from 7,099 cases in 2023. The pertussis vaccine helps children’s immune systems develop the best protection against whooping cough. For children who get all 5 doses on schedule, DTaP fully protects 98% of children within the year following the last dose and about 71% of children 5 years after getting the last dose of DTaP.

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The only misunderstanding here is why the anti-vaccine groups like McCullough Foundation continue to push lies of excess mortality related to vaccines and denying the true benefits of vaccines. While McCullough Foundation is making unconfirmed and false claims that the vaccines were killing individuals, large country wide studies like the attached one from France show otherwise. 22 million French individuals, 4 years of follow-up have shown that COVID vaccines reduced risk of death from COVID in the 70plus% but also showed that excess mortality never happened as pointed by a reduction of all cause mortality by 29%. Beyond such data confirming efficacy and safety of COVID vaccines, it confirms that McCullough Foundation was lying throughout their posts…

This is what we witnessed at this week’s ACIP vaccine meeting: rhetoric dressed up as “science,” delivered with confidence but completely untethered from evidence, and often from reality.

As I told The Washington Post:

“The most dangerous misinformation is the kind that’s wrapped in the appearance of scientific authority. It makes it incredibly difficult for parents, who are simply trying to do the right thing, to tell fact from fiction.”

Parents deserve better than this chaos and confusion. They deserve clear, accurate information and leaders who know how to interpret evidence, not performative contrarians turning a national vaccine advisory meeting into a stage. | 14 comments on LinkedIn

"Vaccines prevent disease, not infection, no matter how the word "vaccine" is defined."
Dr. Angela Rasmussen

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This article contains government documentation to help parents understand that ALL childhood vaccines were categorized as EUA countermeasures in 2020 and may contain mRNA technology.