Make America Healthy Again - Trump populism comes to health regulation (3 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

This is going to need a thread as we move forward - there are now clear signs that Trump supports a new, critical if not dubious approach on vaccination, and his HHS nominee RFK Jr. regularly espouses eating raw milk and raw meat . . . dietary components most experts agree are more dangerous than their heated counterparts.

Health is certainly one of those areas were anti-institutionalism and turning to popular influencers over medical science comes with genuine risk of harm.

Today Trump provided his most clear indication that he is a vaccine skeptic - claiming (falsely of course) that the USA doesn't "do as well" as other nations that use no vaccines at all.

 

[MT15]

So now he goes after Dunkin? When will the madman be stopped?

 

[MT15]

 

[bird]

With Republicans in the majority no matter how slim they won’t listen. They don’t care.

 

[efil4]

RFK at UF this am

How soon before UF has "bloodletting" classes and forms the School of Medieval Medicine?

 

[bird]

RFK at UF this am

How soon before UF has "bloodletting" classes and forms the School of Medieval Medicine?

Has that worm multiplied in his brain?

 

[fooferdoggie]

Has that worm multiplied in his brain?

no the dead remains are making his zombie brain.

 

[Optimus Prime]

RFK Jr offers bizarre solution to America’s ‘spiritual warfare’

Robert F Kennedy Jr claimed the US is engaged in “spiritual warfare,” and the answer to combating it is more meals with your family. During an event on nutrition education in Washington DC on Thursday (March 5), Kennedy said a lack of cooking ability among Americans is leading to the breakdown...

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

Trump administration’s embattled FDA vaccine chief ousted for the second time

Vinay Prasad to leave in April after decisions involving vaccine reviews and specialty drugs for rare diseases

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

A major federal panel that advises the government on vaccines has stepped back from efforts targeting Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, a change that comes as some Republicans reportedly caution that additional shifts in vaccine policy could hurt the party in the upcoming midterm elections.

Several vaccine advisers selected by Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health secretary, had been exploring the possibility of ending federal recommendations for mRNA covid shots. That initiative is no longer going forward, according to two sources familiar with the discussions who spoke to the Washington Post.

Members of the health department’s vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) in recent months have openly raised concerns about both the safety and production of the vaccines despite widespread research. Some of those comments included repeating a debunked claim that DNA contamination in the shots posed a health risk.


The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) press secretary, Emily G Hilliard, said in a statement to the Guardian that “the committee has not reconsidered its September 2025 decision to classify COVID vaccines under shared clinical decision-making on the CDC immunization schedules.”

“Additionally, the FDA and ACIP have consistently been aligned: the FDA’s approval of COVID vaccines for high-risk groups and the ACIP’s recommendation to include them on the immunization schedule under shared clinical decision-making, which means the decision to vaccinate is based upon individual patient characteristics, are compatible,” the statement said.

Dorit Reiss, vaccine law expert and professor at UC Law San Francisco, says what we’re seeing “reflects two things”.

“The administration does not want to create more controversy around vaccines, realize this is politically harmful, since most voters are not on board with Kennedy’s anti-vaccine agenda. And the current ACIP does not understand its role, which does not extend to setting insurance codes,” she said.……..

US vaccine panel retreats from mRNA Covid review ahead of midterms

Advisers to RFK Jr drop the plan to end federal guidance amid Republican worries about the political impact

www.theguardian.com

 

[bird]

A major federal panel that advises the government on vaccines has stepped back from efforts targeting Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, a change that comes as some Republicans reportedly caution that additional shifts in vaccine policy could hurt the party in the upcoming midterm elections.

Several vaccine advisers selected by Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health secretary, had been exploring the possibility of ending federal recommendations for mRNA covid shots. That initiative is no longer going forward, according to two sources familiar with the discussions who spoke to the Washington Post.

Members of the health department’s vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) in recent months have openly raised concerns about both the safety and production of the vaccines despite widespread research. Some of those comments included repeating a debunked claim that DNA contamination in the shots posed a health risk.


The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) press secretary, Emily G Hilliard, said in a statement to the Guardian that “the committee has not reconsidered its September 2025 decision to classify COVID vaccines under shared clinical decision-making on the CDC immunization schedules.”

“Additionally, the FDA and ACIP have consistently been aligned: the FDA’s approval of COVID vaccines for high-risk groups and the ACIP’s recommendation to include them on the immunization schedule under shared clinical decision-making, which means the decision to vaccinate is based upon individual patient characteristics, are compatible,” the statement said.

Dorit Reiss, vaccine law expert and professor at UC Law San Francisco, says what we’re seeing “reflects two things”.

“The administration does not want to create more controversy around vaccines, realize this is politically harmful, since most voters are not on board with Kennedy’s anti-vaccine agenda. And the current ACIP does not understand its role, which does not extend to setting insurance codes,” she said.……..

US vaccine panel retreats from mRNA Covid review ahead of midterms

Advisers to RFK Jr drop the plan to end federal guidance amid Republican worries about the political impact

www.theguardian.com

Just fork RFK, Jr., G-D dilettante that he is.

 

[zztop]

Report: RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda curbed as GOP realizes it's unpopular

Meanwhile, Kennedy's allies want all vaccine recommendations eliminated.

arstechnica.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

New details are leading experts to fear that an “unethical” vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau is the “prototype” for studies under Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the US department of health and human services (HHS) and longtime vaccine critic.

At the center of US vaccine policy is an unlikely set of Danish researchers whose work on the health effects of vaccines has been called into question.

The study in Guinea-Bissau would have looked at the overall health effects of giving hepatitis B vaccines by only vaccinating half of the newborns in the study at birth despite an 18% prevalence rate in adults of the illness, which can lead to serious and sometimes fatal health consequences.

Stand Up for Science, a science and health nonprofit in the US, sent an investigator to Guinea-Bissau to look at public records and interview experts.

The organization met with members of Congress on 19 February to share these results in an unreleased report, obtained by the Guardian, that raises concerns about how deeply the Bandim Health Project is enmeshed in public health in Guinea-Bissau and the challenges to conducting ethical research in this setting – with immense repercussions for how US research will be carried out under Kennedy.

“We are fearful that this is a prototype for other studies,” said Colette Delawalla, founder of Stand Up for Science. The US could fund global studies with the similar ethical concerns as the Tuskegee experiment five or 10 or 100 times a year, she said.

“It could be extraordinarily deadly.” Stand Up for Science held nationwide rallies on Saturday to protest moves like these.

Danish researchers behind the now-suspended hepatitis B vaccine trial have run Bandim in Guinea-Bissau for 48 years, but they are now facing new questions about their previous work – most recently, a study published in Vaccine detailing several instances where the researchers appeared to conduct studies and then release partial results or none at all.

The group has deep ties with the current US administration; Kennedy has cited Peter Aaby, one of the researchers, as formative to some of his own views on vaccines.

Christine Stabell Benn, another of the researchers, was included on the hepatitis B working group of the advisory committee on immunization practices, which means she helped determine the evidence behind the committee’s decision to end the universal birth recommendation.

Stabell Benn also hosted a podcast with Tracy Beth Høeg, a sports physician turned top official with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who said she wants to end “unnecessary” vaccines.……….

Experts fear ‘unethical’ vaccine trial in Africa is ‘prototype’ for US studies under RFK Jr

Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy

www.theguardian.com

 

[bird]

New details are leading experts to fear that an “unethical” vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau is the “prototype” for studies under Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the US department of health and human services (HHS) and longtime vaccine critic.

At the center of US vaccine policy is an unlikely set of Danish researchers whose work on the health effects of vaccines has been called into question.

The study in Guinea-Bissau would have looked at the overall health effects of giving hepatitis B vaccines by only vaccinating half of the newborns in the study at birth despite an 18% prevalence rate in adults of the illness, which can lead to serious and sometimes fatal health consequences.

Stand Up for Science, a science and health nonprofit in the US, sent an investigator to Guinea-Bissau to look at public records and interview experts.

The organization met with members of Congress on 19 February to share these results in an unreleased report, obtained by the Guardian, that raises concerns about how deeply the Bandim Health Project is enmeshed in public health in Guinea-Bissau and the challenges to conducting ethical research in this setting – with immense repercussions for how US research will be carried out under Kennedy.

“We are fearful that this is a prototype for other studies,” said Colette Delawalla, founder of Stand Up for Science. The US could fund global studies with the similar ethical concerns as the Tuskegee experiment five or 10 or 100 times a year, she said.

“It could be extraordinarily deadly.” Stand Up for Science held nationwide rallies on Saturday to protest moves like these.

Danish researchers behind the now-suspended hepatitis B vaccine trial have run Bandim in Guinea-Bissau for 48 years, but they are now facing new questions about their previous work – most recently, a study published in Vaccine detailing several instances where the researchers appeared to conduct studies and then release partial results or none at all.

The group has deep ties with the current US administration; Kennedy has cited Peter Aaby, one of the researchers, as formative to some of his own views on vaccines.

Christine Stabell Benn, another of the researchers, was included on the hepatitis B working group of the advisory committee on immunization practices, which means she helped determine the evidence behind the committee’s decision to end the universal birth recommendation.

Stabell Benn also hosted a podcast with Tracy Beth Høeg, a sports physician turned top official with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who said she wants to end “unnecessary” vaccines.……….

Experts fear ‘unethical’ vaccine trial in Africa is ‘prototype’ for US studies under RFK Jr

Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy

www.theguardian.com

Unnecessary vaccines…fork these people.

 

[MT15]

MAHA is just a sham, through and through. They say stuff, but do the opposite. They care nothing about public health - in fact the opposite.

 

[faceman]

Report: RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda curbed as GOP realizes it's unpopular

Meanwhile, Kennedy's allies want all vaccine recommendations eliminated.

arstechnica.com

No shirt sherlock. Are they just realizing this?

 

[Dragon]

New details are leading experts to fear that an “unethical” vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau is the “prototype” for studies under Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the US department of health and human services (HHS) and longtime vaccine critic.

At the center of US vaccine policy is an unlikely set of Danish researchers whose work on the health effects of vaccines has been called into question.

The study in Guinea-Bissau would have looked at the overall health effects of giving hepatitis B vaccines by only vaccinating half of the newborns in the study at birth despite an 18% prevalence rate in adults of the illness, which can lead to serious and sometimes fatal health consequences.

Stand Up for Science, a science and health nonprofit in the US, sent an investigator to Guinea-Bissau to look at public records and interview experts.

The organization met with members of Congress on 19 February to share these results in an unreleased report, obtained by the Guardian, that raises concerns about how deeply the Bandim Health Project is enmeshed in public health in Guinea-Bissau and the challenges to conducting ethical research in this setting – with immense repercussions for how US research will be carried out under Kennedy.

“We are fearful that this is a prototype for other studies,” said Colette Delawalla, founder of Stand Up for Science. The US could fund global studies with the similar ethical concerns as the Tuskegee experiment five or 10 or 100 times a year, she said.

“It could be extraordinarily deadly.” Stand Up for Science held nationwide rallies on Saturday to protest moves like these.

Danish researchers behind the now-suspended hepatitis B vaccine trial have run Bandim in Guinea-Bissau for 48 years, but they are now facing new questions about their previous work – most recently, a study published in Vaccine detailing several instances where the researchers appeared to conduct studies and then release partial results or none at all.

The group has deep ties with the current US administration; Kennedy has cited Peter Aaby, one of the researchers, as formative to some of his own views on vaccines.

Christine Stabell Benn, another of the researchers, was included on the hepatitis B working group of the advisory committee on immunization practices, which means she helped determine the evidence behind the committee’s decision to end the universal birth recommendation.

Stabell Benn also hosted a podcast with Tracy Beth Høeg, a sports physician turned top official with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who said she wants to end “unnecessary” vaccines.……….

Experts fear ‘unethical’ vaccine trial in Africa is ‘prototype’ for US studies under RFK Jr

Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy

www.theguardian.com

She is an idiot and conspiracy theorist who has been banned from publishing studies and conducting studies Denmark due to scientific misconduct and economic fraud! Perfect candidate for MAGA disinformation

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

No shirt sherlock. Are they just realizing this?

Hopefully, a super majority of Americans won't forget or forgive in November.

 

[MT15]

Florida has to be the worst state for public health. DeSantis has to be one of the worst governors of any state in US history.

“Out of the 30 states where measles has been detected in 2026, Florida currently ranks third in case counts. Since the start of the year, at least 132 confirmed or probable cases of measles have been reported across the state, where vaccination rates have consistently fallen below the threshold required to prevent outbreaks. The measles situation in Florida is, in other words, an urgent problem for the state that the state should be urgently addressing.


But on all things measles, the state’s health department has been mostly silent. The department’s measles landing page has no map of the state’s cases and no list of vaccination sites; its “Data and Statistics” section points to measles numbers that were last updated in 2024. In the months that measles has been spreading in the state, health officials have not issued press releases about the virus or launched information campaigns to caution residents about the risks. They have not publicly advertised the benefits of vaccines. Many of Florida’s health experts remain in the dark about their own state: “There has been no—capital N, capital O—communication to physicians, in particular pediatricians, about the outbreak,” Jeffrey Goldhagen, a pediatrician at the University of Florida”





Excerpt From


“Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t”


Katherine J. Wu


The Atlantic

Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t — The Atlantic

The state is in the midst of an outbreak, but its health department has been mostly silent.

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