Ignorance or bad faith ?
To claim that the original logic for a universal newborn dose as“marketing” is a lie,as it was driven by boring epidemiology not only in the USA but in many other countries. We saw today the USA ddnying the science on HepB vaccines. And here is why :
- Perinatal/early-childhood HBV > very high risk of lifelong chronic infection, cirrhosis and liver cancer.
- Many carriers don’t know or disclose their status, and babies don’t stay in the same “low-risk” household forever.
- Selective “high-risk only” programmes were tried and repeatedly missed kids; universal infant Hep B helped drive childhood HBV down.

Rebranding this as a victory, it shows how little one trust the benefits of public health as HepB vaccines reduce infection cases by 99%. I have looked at the actual ACIP language and numbers, only to notice how much of the litterature they have omitted to support their lies:
- Is the birth dose truly no longer recommended for all, or just being pushed to a slightly later window in very low-risk settings?
- What happens for babies born to mums with unknown status, incomplete screening, or in chaotic social situations?
- What modelling did CDC use for future chronic HBV and liver-cancer burden under the new policy?
It was funny to listen to those trying to compare the USA to Denmark as one has fully universal medicine access and the other not enough.

The evidence says a more targeted approach now has a better risk–benefit profile, great; show the data and be honest about the trade-offs, one being the deaths to so many children it is worrisome that the ACIP took such decision. One would that any parent of a child who would get infected to sue some of the members of the ACIP committee. Top on my list would be Levy o

https://lnkd.in/eqHGDmia

Then publish these cases with clinical data and histopathology please so we can review them. Don't just make claims. Let's see the clinical data.

Did you know the Institute of Medicine (IOM) states that “the evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between hepatitis B vaccine” and some of the severe side effects that have been observed following hepatitis B vaccination?

Parents, learn more about the risks of hepatitis B vs. the hepatitis B vaccine: https://lnkd.in/gRHMMW5Y

#vaccines #protectyourkids #healthcare #publichealth #childrenshealth

To claim that the birth dose HepB should delayed is proof of ignorance of the reality. 2/3 infants get infected at home from individuals of whom 50% don’t know being infected. The birth dose of the HepB protects them from such. Delaying such dose guarantees they will be infected…McCullough Foundation is only making sure that your kids will end up needing McCullough Funeral Home services …

FYI – in serious cases of measles, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends taking a high dose of vitamin A, 50,000 – 200,000 IU orally on two consecutive days.

For more scientific facts & research about measles go here: picdata.org/measles

#vaccines

I want to talk about intersectionality...


I'm a bit frustrated, I was in a health inequalities meeting this week and i'm still hearing people say “hard-to-reach groups”... seriously!

People are not hard to reach, our services are often too hard to access. And if you’re a person living at the intersection of multiple disadvantages... the impact isn’t additive, it’s exponential!

Intersectionality matters because no one experiences the system through a single lens.

Let me give a real-world example:

Imagine Eve 👩🏿, she is a Black woman with a physical disability living in social housing trying to access healthcare...

Our data might tell us she didn't attend her appointment, she waited longer, or she dropped out, but her lived experience reveals WHY.

She arrives late to her appointment because public transport didn't align with clinic times and she had trouble getting on the bus.

When she checks in at reception, staff ignore her instead of welcoming her, because of disability and racial discrimination that we still don’t address.

During the consultation, she has to advocate harder to be believed because both race and gender bias shape whether her pain is taken seriously by clinicians.

The room layout makes it difficult for her to navigate, and no one asks what adjustments she needs to make her more comfortable.

She leaves feeling exhausted, traumatised, and unlikely to return...

None of these barriers will show up in a standard dashboard.

This is the cost of not understanding the impact of intersectionality:
- poorer access
- poorer experience
- poorer outcomes
- higher system costs

If we don’t understand someone's lived experience, we will continue to design services that work beautifully for the people who need them the least.

And finally, using the right terminology (intersectionality, seldom heard groups, marginalised communities) isn’t an academic exercise, it’s showing people respect and understanding.

What are your thoughts?

#HealthInequalities #EquityInHealthcare #PopulationHealth #NHSLeadership #DataForEquity #HealthOutcomes
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💉 Vaccins ARNm : des données françaises solides pour couper court aux intox

L’étude EPI-PHARE publiée dans JAMA Network Open apporte un recul inédit :
- 28 millions de personnes de 18 à 59 ans
- suivies pendant quatre ans.

Dans un contexte où la désinformation circule encore massivement, ces résultats sont essentiels pour rétablir les faits.

📊 Ce que montrent les données :
–25 % de mortalité toutes causes chez les personnes vaccinées.
–74 % de décès liés au Covid à l’hôpital.

👍🏻 Aucun signal de surmortalité dans les grandes causes (cancers, cardiovasculaire, neurologique, respiratoire, accidents, suicides).

🔗 : https://lnkd.in/e9T9N756

🏥 Pourquoi c’est important pour la santé publique ?

La force de cette étude tient à trois éléments :
1. L’ampleur (28 millions de personnes)
2. La durée du suivi (4 ans)
3. La rigueur méthodologique (approche « essai cible », analyses de sensibilité, contrôle des biais)

Ces travaux constituent aujourd’hui l’un des meilleurs outils pour contrer les fausses affirmations sur la “surmortalité post-vaccinale”.

🤩 Dans la lutte contre les fake news, la transparence des données et la rigueur scientifique demeurent nos meilleurs alliés.
Et aujourd’hui, les données françaises sont sans ambiguïté : la vaccination n’a pas augmenté la mortalité : elle a protégé.

Largely unscattered ??? Tell this to those now suffering from Long COVID. The only thing said by Dr Philip McMillan which is true is that vaccines were not the problem, and still are not. From what we have seen, a high risk group is basically define by one factor: being alive. Some may have higher risk factors like age and comorbidities. All do need protection. It is irresponsible to claim that mandates were not needed. We have seen neighbouring countries where mandates existed and not. A good example of such being Canada and the USA, as well as the Scandinavian countries. Where mandates were not implemented, death rates from COVID were the highest. Such explains why the USA, despite claims of being the best healthcare in the world, had the one of worse COVID fatality rate in the world. But the narrative of Haiti as an example of low vaccination and low death rates is fallacious at best and omits the true driver of such: the very low age of its population.

These former Surgeons General now out of the political domain can now simply concentrate on science and eliminate the dangerous threat of vaccine misinformation by sharing one simple truth: Vaccines are safe and effective. Don’t believe the lies of the anti-vaxxer narative.

And one of the most important thing here beyond the reduction of cases is that the cases we are not seeing are all in unvaccinated individuals.

"If there’s a single child who’s susceptible, they’ll catch #measles just walking into the room with someone who is infected. So first of all, we’re starting with the immense biological challenge of trying to control this very infectious virus. Then, even with the best vaccine in the world, it only works if it reaches almost every child."

Measles is making a comeback. Dr. Natasha Crowcroft, who spent more than five years as the Senior Technical Advisor on Measles and Rubella for the World Health Organization, spoke with us about why it’s so challenging to stop the disease globally, and why vaccine hesitancy remains a problem.

🔗 https://lnkd.in/eUZhv2MC #VaccinesWork

Stating the obvious but plenty of things have become ubiquitous over the last 5 decades—cell phones, home computers, microwaves…I could go on but I won’t.


“He remains convinced that vaccines, along with ultraprocessed foods and environmental toxins, have fueled an increase in asthma, allergies, autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders that have been on the rise in recent decades — when the number of childhood immunizations rose.

There is no scientific proof. But Mr. Kennedy is on a mission to change that.

“Vaccines,” he said, “must be a culprit, because they became ubiquitous along that timeline.””

https://lnkd.in/eGKm__uE

The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history

That McCullough Foundation cites Trump as a reference is the real disgrace here. Not sure that someone that pushed the concept of injecting bleach into someone to treat COVID should be seen a credible reference. Nor should an organization that posted so many lies that it was banned from linked, and their guru saw his medical license revoked. That political pressure pollutes the minds of parents is one thing but that such goes against all of the published science as well as all of the medical guidelines. But it is worse when pseudo-medical experts make claims outside of their field of expertise only to push lies or misinformation is worse…

“Medical gaslighting” has become a popular term on social media (search for “#medicalgaslighting” and you’ll find over 46 000 Instagram posts, as well as many hours’ worth of TikTok videos), and it has even been recognised in academic literature. Moore explains, “It’s when a medical professional of any kind diminishes, questions, invalidates, or makes you feel like what you’re experiencing isn’t correct or that you’re not a reliable narrator of your own experience.”

Interesting perspectives from medical professionals in this narrative piece at BMJ

Full read in comments 👇