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The Death of Vaccines in America!

Trump's Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #vaccinate

apnews.com/article/kennedy-cdc

Your monthly reminder that #COVIDISNOTOVER.

A virus cannot mutate if it cannot incubate.

We know how to mitigate the spread of #COVID19, but we conflate and complicate perceived rights and freedoms w/ public health mandates and related precautions.

No one has the right to infect others.
No one has the freedom to be infected by another.

Vaccinate.

Keep your distance.
Wear appropriate face masks.

Separate and isolate accordingly.

Do not equivocate.

As a professional researcher for policy design and analysis, I'm not a proponent of policies supporting "I do my own research" actions — but it's 2025, Voldemort is POTUS and RFK Jr. is the bad wizard of health. Here we are. 🙁

As RFK Jr. ends COVID vaccine recommendations, what do facts say about risks?

TLDNR — Get vaccinated. RFK Jr. is a vaccine skeptic — or worse.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/30/r v @AlJazeera
#vaccinate #vaccines #PublicHealth #ChildhoodVaccines ##COVIDvaccine #ScienceMatters

Al Jazeera · RFK Jr ends COVID vaccine recommendation: What do facts say about risks?By Al Jazeera

#FYI #USA #MicrobeTV #TWiV #ThisWeekInVirology #DanielGriffin #VincentRacaniello #infectiousdiseases #mpox #measles #Ebola #covid19 #covid #sarscov2 #avianflu #birdflu #influenza #polio #RSV #vaccinate #vaccines

TWiV 1220: Clinical update week 24. May 2025

"changes in FDA vaccine approval policy especially how it is applied to COVID-19 vaccines and restricts vaccine availability/usage and Novavax’s vaccine, mpox, “bird flu”, the ongoing measles outbreak [...]"

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When asked by Rep Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin) if #RFKJr would #vaccinate his own children against #measles today, #HHS Secy Kennedy paused before answering & said “probably.” He went on to say “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me” & did not answer directly whether he would vaccinate his own children against #ChickenPox & #polio today.

#FYI #USA #MicrobeTV #TWiV #ThisWeekInVirology #DanielGriffin #VincentRacaniello #measles #vaccinate #vaccines #ecoli #covid19 #covid #sarscov2 #RSV

TWiV 1210: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin week 17.04.2025

56000 confirmed fired federal workers. More than third of the cuts target health services, aiming to deliberately disrupt disease control and research as well as national and global human health services. #fascism #stopfascism #trump #musk #hostiletakeover

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#Measles arrives in #Kansas, spreads quickly in #undervaccinated counties
In the 2023–2024 school year, rates of kindergartners with their two shots stood at 83% in the Hugoton school district and 80 percent in the Moscow school district, according to state data. Those rates are significantly below the 95% threshold needed to block the onward community spread of measles—one of the most infectious viruses known to humankind arstechnica.com/health/2025/03
Who needs a bioweapon when we don't #vaccinate?

Ars Technica · Measles arrives in Kansas, spreads quickly in undervaccinated countiesBy Beth Mole

#newIntroduction

Hi, I’m Adam. I teach film & culture at a small college in Montréal(unceded territory). Bonne Française, wenig Deutsch & Latin.

I also do carpentry & renos. Interactive sculpture & music are my creative practices.

I’m straight, but not narrow. Until women, the differently-abled, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Trans Folx & Worker’s rights are universally protected, no human is really free.

We are in a climate crisis. #LessIsMore #LeaveItInTheGround
#Vaccinate #BeKind #Equity #Resist 🇨🇦

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@kwleslie

our world is founded on

"why it's important to #vaccinate"

"why it's important to #vote"

"why it's important to have #friends and #allies"

etc

and people not born of the #suffering that created these lessons, and proudly #ignorant of #history, don't know, don't care, and amazingly, *organize* on this willful ugliness

oh, they will learn

again

the hard way

and those of us who already know why these things are important will suffer as well, dragged along by the evil and stupid

This is a photo of 4 little grave stones in a historic cemetery. Next to them a marker shares with us that these 4 children, siblings, all died in a two week span in 1888. We don’t know of what. Smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles? Flu? Mumps? #vaccinate

Gang, I’m 70. I had mumps when I was three. Measles when I was seven. Whooping cough when I was, I think 10? Maybe 11. I only hazily remember mumps. Measles, I missed the 1st two weeks of second grade. I remember the doctor making a house call. Then I was just totally out of it for two weeks. I remember when my mother took the blankets off the windows and I blinked at how bright the light was. I had whooping cough for a miserable week before she took me to the doctor. No money. Before Medicaid. I couldn't breathe. I coughed out every bit of air, sucked in as much air as I could, but then coughed it right out again. That's why I got the Covid vaccine as soon as I could. Remembering what it was like to not be able to breathe. "Oh," the antivaxxer says, “But you survived, right? No harm done." But not everyone survived those illnesses. And some had life long health issues. I wouldn't wish anyone to go through those diseases like I had to.

My own personal photo, taken at a Historic Cemetery.

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Sen #RonWyden accused #RFKJr of being hypocritical, saying he is fond of saying he’s not making “recommendations” about whether parents should #vaccinate their #children, but “just asking questions” & giving people choices.

“It’s a slippery tactic to dodge any real responsibility for his words & actions, & it’s absurd coming from somebody who’s trying to win confirmation for a job that is entirely about making recommendations,” Wyden said in his opening statement.