In 2025, nine children in Sindh were paralysed by polio, and one case has already been reported in 2026. Every case is a reminder that as long as the virus continues to circulate, every unvaccinated child remains at risk.

Protecting every child from polio is a shared responsibility. Ensure your child receives every recommended dose of the polio vaccine. 💚

NIH was not merely an outside scientific observer during the COVID vaccine programme. NIAID scientists helped develop the prefusion-stabilised “2P” spike technology, NIAID co-developed the Moderna vaccine and the resulting NIH patents were used in both the Moderna and Pfizer–BioNTech products. Moderna later reported a $400 million catch-up royalty payment to NIAID, while BioNTech agreed to pay NIH $791.5 million to settle disputed royalties and amend its licence—creating more than $1.19 billion in disclosed institutional agreements. Importantly, NIH did not own the mRNA platform itself: its valuable intellectual property concerned the engineered spike encoded by the vaccines.

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If This Was Gain-of-Function, What Was the Intention?
Fauci’s diary does not prove Dr Shankara Chetty’s darkest interpretation. But it makes his early instinct—and the question he is now asking—much harder to dismiss.
https://lnkd.in/esy9k4aU
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Does that financial interest help explain some of the inconsistencies in behaviour, messaging and policy seen during the pandemic? It cannot be presented as proof, and the FDA and CDC—not NIH alone—made the central regulatory and recommendation decisions. But when a government institution helps develop a product, participates in its scientific evaluation, publicly supports its use and stands to receive sales-dependent royalties, the appearance of conflict is unavoidable. This discussion examines whether those interests were disclosed and independently managed—and whether financial incentives received the scrutiny they deserved.

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"This resurgence of measles in the U.S. reflects failures in leadership that have allowed vaccination coverage to decline — and, in some respects, even fostered this dangerous trend. Health officials should be prioritizing the protection of children through immunization.

With measles now a near-daily headline, more families are understandably asking questions about the disease and its vaccine. Here are some evidence-based facts everyone should know.

Measles is hypercontagious

One person with measles can infect nine to 10 people without immunity. But measles is often transmitted asymptomatically. A person can spread the virus up to four days before developing the telltale rash, and because the incubation period — the time between exposure and illness — ranges from seven to 21 days, identifying where and when someone was infected is often difficult.

Measles can kill

Three people died of measles in the U.S. last year; before then, a single measles-related death in the U.S. had not occurred since 2015; before that, since 2003. But death isn’t the only danger. There have been 151 hospitalizations from measles so far this year, according to the CDC, including 45 children under age 5 for conditions including low blood oxygen, sepsis and pneumonia. And long after the acute illness has resolved, measles can still present a threat. Infection can cause “immune amnesia,” temporarily erasing immune memory and increasing susceptibility to other infections. A child who appears to recover can years later develop subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, a devastating, progressive inflammation of the brain caused by persistent measles infection. SSPE is almost always fatal.

Measles exacts a heavy toll on communities, even among those not directly infected

The major outbreak in South Carolina that began last year produced at least 997 confirmed cases. But the disruption extends far beyond those with measles. Thirty-three schools were affected, and 874 people were quarantined for exposure. For many families, quarantine translated into missed school, missed work, lost wages and last-minute childcare complexities. The burden of this disease extends beyond hospitalizations or deaths and into widespread social and economic disruption."
https://lnkd.in/g9x-CZiw

Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) a publié des images sur LinkedIn

Vincent Iannelli, MD a publié des images sur LinkedIn

What did Fauci said years ago was the truth… What is he not saying now ? The lies that Rand Paul and Republicans wantin order to catch him…That he has been pardoned helps but it doesn’t cover Fauci’s actions past the end of Biden’s presidency, or protect him from prosecution over any statements he might have made today. “He could perjure himself now,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week on Fox News. “If he lies again, then he could be subject to perjury prosecution.”

But the most obvious distortions at the hearing came from the Senate panel. Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, proposed that the pulmonary infarction Fauci experienced in 2021—the details of which were revealed in the pages from Fauci’s private diary that Paul released last weekend—may have resulted from COVID vaccination and booster shots. More than 39,000 deaths had resulted from COVID-19 vaccination, he said, and although Facebook had censored his supporters when they tried to share that fact, “this wasn’t disinformation, this was the truth.” Paul has led a yearslong effort to punish him for allowing NIAID to fund research that allegedly enhanced the coronavirus’s ability to harm people, and for allegedly lying to Congress and the American people about that fact. (Some federal intelligence agencies favor the theory that the pandemic started with a virus that leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China; Fauci, in keeping with the consensus among virologists and other infectious-disease experts, has said that the preponderance of biological evidence points instead to the virus having a natural origin, likely spilling over from a wild animal into humans.) In January 2025, during the final hours of Joe Biden’s term, Fauci received a sweeping, preemptive presidential pardon for “any offenses against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in” over the previous 11 years.

Congrats to Johanna Pope on this new paper. She led an analysis of 60 papers across nine disciplines, published between 2016 and 2022, reading them line by line to see how researchers actually use the term "health misinformation," including in the many papers that never define it.

Authors agreed on a few things. Misinformation is false or misleading when checked against scientific evidence, digital platforms sped up its spread, and the harm runs from the health choices people make to how much they trust health institutions. Many wrote about it in medical terms, as a contaminant or an infection.

They disagreed on nearly everything else. The same label was used for personal illness stories, statements about values, messages designed to persuade, opinions the author disliked, and true information given without the context that would make it useful. Almost no one explained how to judge a claim when the evidence is unsettled, or when the real disagreement is about how much risk people find acceptable.

That vagueness makes studies harder to repeat, harder to compare across fields, and harder to build interventions on. Until it is sorted out, researchers should say how they defined and measured the term, and how that choice shaped what they found.

Phase 2 takes the same questions to people outside academic publishing.

See: https://lnkd.in/gT8r_wsi

Johanna Pope, Paula Byrne, Prof. Declan Devane, Maura Dowling

“A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.” — Albert B. Sabin

Dr. Sabin, our namesake, developed the oral polio vaccine and worked to ensure that everyone, everywhere had access to it. We are proud to continue working on vaccine development and access in that spirit.

More on Dr. Sabin ⤵️
https://ow.ly/GIBL50Zss86

"As you can tell, there is a lot more to this case than appears on the surface. Of course, more information will be heard in a potential jury trial. But it’s clear that the police and prosecutors in this case have evidence that it wasn’t vaccines, or they would not have pursued the indictment and arrest.

If the prosecution’s case is weak or doesn’t convince a jury, you know that Children’s Health Defense and the anti-vaccine world will explode with “see, it’s the vaccines.” That will become the new trope that floods the internet for years.

Of course, I don’t think courts can legitimately determine whether vaccines caused the twins’ death, but I am assuming the police and prosecutors have more evidence to support the charges against Shaw that will clarify the facts.

As Professor Reiss points out, there is a lot we don’t know. We will get more information once the trial begins and the prosecution lays out its case."

The only thing of interest from the Fauci diaries was how degusted he was by the lies of Trump, which he never mentione

Appreciate The New York Times for taking such a close look at my state vaccine policy tracking for the Association of Immunization Managers. While the federal environment draws significant attention, state vaccine policy continues to move in different directions across the country. I am grateful for the opportunity to help highlight those trends.

https://lnkd.in/eAzY83VT

Our critique of the work of Christine Stabell Benn and Peter Aaby is finally online with the correct formatting.
For years, RFK Jr.’s new protégés have been producing flawed research (with wrong reporting practices). We highlight the problems here:
https://lnkd.in/dYUjJCQJ

When I first mentioned these problems to the lead author, her main answer was to call me an "armchair epidemiologist." This is all fair, I am not an epidemiologist by training at all. But if I can spot these problems, I am either very wrong (it was a possibility of course) or they are very obvious problems. Of course, the problems were also raised on The PubPeer Foundation already on their preprint. The authors have claimed to address them in a linkedin post, but they actually did not. See the whole Pubpeer thread: https://lnkd.in/dvEgVjPz

Their research practices have also received significant attention in the Danish press, including coverage of several major controversies.
I previously wrote about this for Le Point:
https://lnkd.in/d97ng6fq
Many thanks to géraldine woessner for giving me the opportunity to write about this subject a few months ago.

Thanks also to my amazing co-authors on this response: Thomas Kesteman Nicolas Dauby MD, PhD Clémence Leyrat Steve Claude Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz. Let's hope that the authors will answer our concerns or that the paper will be retracted by iScience Cell Press.

Poking Mu Yang René Aquarius Elisabeth Bik who may know someone from the research integrity team at Cell Press | 12 comments on LinkedIn

Why is Jonas Salk a household name while Albert Sabin remains less well known?

I enjoyed discussing that question on the Groks Science Show podcast, along with the determination that shaped Sabin's life, from the moment he set aside his original career plans to pursue medical research to the unwavering commitment that ultimately led to the oral polio vaccine.

🎧 Listen to our conversation here: https://lnkd.in/gvwAWpT5

I enjoyed speaking with Faith Jessie at Atlanta TV station 11Alive about Albert Sabin: The Life of a Polio Vaccine Pioneer and what makes his story so compellingly timely at present, when the value of vaccines is being questioned at the top levels of our government.

One of the things I shared is that people remembered Albert Sabin not because of his discoveries and adventures, but because his unorthodox behavior made him impossible to forget. He was a brilliant scientist, humanitarian, and peace activist whose complex personality made him a fascinating subject to research and write about.

Thank you to the 11Alive team for the opportunity to share some of Sabin's stories and impact!

Watch the interview here: https://lnkd.in/e-8s6Brn

‘I hope you’ll go home and write that in your diary.’

💥 Senator Josh Hawley SLAMS Dr. Anthony Fauci will the truth:

“You could sit for InStyle Magazine and get a million bucks in cash awards but now the cats got your tongue?”

“Somewhere along the way you lost your way.”

“You became a narcissist, and a megalomaniac and a liar.”

“You’ve done more to harm science than anyone in my lifetime.”

"A group of U.S. senators has ​asked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to disclose whether his family stands to profit from a recent legal settlement involving ‌Merck's  Gardasil vaccine, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.
The letter, sent on Monday by four Democratic senators including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, notes that Merck earlier this year agreed to pay $50 million to settle litigation over Gardasil. Before becoming health secretary last year, Kennedy was an attorney of record in some of the cases.

As health secretary Kennedy ​oversees multiple health agencies that regulate and pay for vaccines, and said he would hand over his financial interest in vaccine litigation ​to a son.
The senators asked whether Kennedy’s son received the health secretary’s share of Gardasil fees, and if so, ⁠how much money that represents.
Kennedy did not commit to recuse himself from U.S. health agency decisions involving Gardasil, the letter says, or other policymaking around ​vaccine litigation.
“You are charged with setting federal vaccine policy and regulating vaccine manufacturers, including Merck, even as your family and former employer may financially benefit ​from actions you take as Secretary,” the senators' letter states, and asks for a reply by Aug. 11."

https://lnkd.in/gW8EVHXZ

The Wellness Company missed this testimonial for its products -posted on a FB fanpage with nearly half a million followers.

While you can overdose on either IVM or mebendezole, the side effects of such errors in judgement tend to be neurological (seizures, coma, etc) rather than cardiac (like a-fib).

IVM toxicity can cause tachycardia (3.5%) and orthostatic hypotension (1.1%), which the OP describes well. It’s possible that he was understandably confused about a-fib in the heat of his own medical emergency. If he already had paroxysmal a-fib, anything that irritates or drives up heart rate would aggravate it. Unfortunate.

But Peter McCullough -the guy who owns a stake in the Wellness Company, should know this better than me, given that he was once a cardiologist.

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This morning I was watching the USA Senate hearing of testimony from Dr. Anthony Fauci. GOP Senator Ron Johnson had the attached poster raised behind him in an attempt to shame Dr. Fauci.
The data provided spanned from 69 months to 57 years, and did not show any emperical research evidence to confirm the accuracy of any of the information.
However, the stated 23.8% of the apparent 39,182 COVID Vaccine deaths over 68 months based 1,677,227 COVID vaccines is grossly incorrect. The math indicates that the correct answer is only 2.38%.
The Senator and his staff's failure to not even check for errors in simple math, brings into question all of the data presented. #covid #fauci
As a retired health system CEO, who has had 9 COVID vaccines, I am appalled at the crass showmanship of the GOPs attempt to discredit this brilliant and dedicated health scientist.
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The CDC has now posted its official position that "...'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." True. Studies have also not ruled out the possibility that smoking doesn't cause lung cancer, and we cannot be absolutely sure that lower US measles immunization rates have anything to do with the explosion of US measles cases, with attendant brain damage and death.

They note that "The rise in autism prevalence since the 1980s correlates with the rise in the number of vaccines given to infants." Claude was kind enough to supply the graph below of # of childhood vaccine doses in the CDC schedule vs. the US GDP over that same period. It was also smart enough to label this correlation of 0.96 (with no direction or encouragement) as "spurious".

Please check out the CDC statement and decide if it represents Gold Standard Science. https://lnkd.in/gg_TpzeG
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Is misinformation on vaccines an issue on LinkedIn ?
Well, if one was able to have tons of such posted on this topic removed in only the last week, it shows that there is a clear problem here. One that LinkedIn should address readily by banning those posting such lies…

When a vaccine becomes available, how many people actually choose to take it? It is a deceptively simple question, and addressing it has been a central focus of my PhD.

I am delighted to share that our systematic review is now published in Vaccines MDPI journal .

We examined 15 years of global vaccine acceptance: 264 studies, 650,772 participants, 97 countries. A few findings stood out.
- Overall acceptance among general population remained remarkably stable; a pooled estimate of 70.63% that changed little between 2009 and 2024. Even a once-in-a-century pandemic did not shift the global baseline as many had expected.
That stability, however, masks substantial variation:
→ Childhood vaccines had the highest acceptance at 80.26%, and increased during the COVID-19 period.
→ HPV (66.48%) and influenza (52.00%) both showed declining trends.
→ Acceptance was higher in the African and South-East Asian regions than in Europe and the Western Pacific.
→ Hesitancy was often greatest in higher-income countries.

We chose 2009 as the starting point for two reasons: it marked the H1N1 pandemic, and the period in which Facebook expanded globally. This allowed us to examine how acceptance evolved in an era of rapid, wide-reaching information and also misinformation/disinformation.

Two gaps stand out as priorities for future work.
- First, the countries carrying the heaviest disease burden, low-income settings and much of the African region, remain the most underrepresented in the evidence base, meaning global immunization strategy is potentially being shaped on data that does not reflect the global population.
- Second, the field still lacks harmonized tools to measure "acceptance" consistently, which limits how well studies can be compared.

Completing this work alongside a full-time role in regulatory affairs reinforced a core principle for me: a vaccine or a medical product only delivers value if people accept it. Understanding the drivers of acceptance is an essential part of bringing products to patients.

My sincere thanks to my co-authors Yu-Tan Chen, Carine Dochez, and Peter DELPUTTE for a truly collaborative effort.

Link to the full article: https://lnkd.in/eaZgbskZ

#VaccineAcceptance #VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealth #Immunization #GlobalHealth #RegulatoryAffairs

Énorme respect et reconnaissance envers tous ces chercheurs et chercheuses de renommée internationale qui conservent leur intégrité professionnelle, leur vision humaniste , leur probité dans un monde de plus en plus cupide, déshumanisé , arrogant envers les merveilles du vivant et notre Terre si maltraitée..

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What a legacy! As we celebrate 35 years of Vaccinate Your Family, I am honored to be a part of this organization's board. And as a native Arkansan, hold dear the legacy of Arkansas First Lady Betty Bumpers and our state's governor-senator Dale Bumpers.

They, along with President and First Lady Carter, knew how to reach communities to encourage vaccination at a time when policies were not as strong. And they did it in a way that fostered trust and partnership.

President Clinton credited Betty Bumpers with opening his eyes to the dire state of childhood vaccination in our homestate of Arkansas, which helped pave the way for the first health policy achievement of the Clinton Administration: the Vaccines for Children Program.

One of the most important lessons from COVID is that authority is not the same as expertise.

The continuing debate around Anthony Fauci (and the recently published dairies) is often reduced to whether he was right or wrong. I think that misses the more consequential lesson.

His credentials and institutional authority were beyond dispute. But no title, however impressive, could confer complete understanding of a disease the world had never encountered before.

In an emerging crisis, expertise is necessarily fluid.

It should belong increasingly to those who can explain what is happening, identify patterns others have missed, anticipate what may come next and revise their position when the evidence changes.

That person may be a distinguished academic. But it may also be a clinician observing an unfamiliar pattern (Dr Chetty - South Africa), a scientist working outside the dominant specialty or an innovator developing a solution that established institutions initially overlook.

This is not an argument for treating every opinion as equally credible. Nor should innovation be accepted simply because it is new.

Ideas must still survive scrutiny.

But they should be judged by their evidence, explanatory power and results. Not rejected because the person proposing them sits outside the recognised hierarchy.

COVID showed us the danger of treating credentials as permanent ownership of the truth. It also showed us how easily institutions can defend established authority long after the evidence has become uncertain.

Perhaps the question should no longer be:
“Who has the most impressive title?”

It should be:
“Who understands the problem well enough to explain it, anticipate it and change course when the facts change?”

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