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“Once again the legislature is ignoring the will of their constituents,” said Terri Burke, executive director of The Immunization Partnership, a nonprofit group that advocates for vaccination access and education. More people testified against this bill in committee than testified for it and 72 percent of the written comments opposed it. So who are these people representing?”

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/01/texas-vaccine-exemption-form/

#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #measles #texas #txlege #VaccinesWork

Step up #measles #vaccinations, say doctors as outbreaks accelerate in #Ontario, #Alberta https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/measles-vaccination-coverage-1.7525234

#Flu #vaccinations may not prevent people from coming down w/symptoms, but research shows they are highly effective at preventing #hospitalizations & #deaths, O’Leary said, adding that the decline in vaccinations “is certainly playing a role” in this season’s loss of life.

The season has not only been hard on #children. #CDC ofcls describe it as “highly severe,” & estimate that so far there have been at least 47M illnesses, 610k hospitalizations & 26k deaths this season.

#AntiVax #RFKJr #Trump

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will ask the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop new guidance for treating measles with drugs and vitamins, an HHS spokesperson said."

There isn't great treatment. Vaccination is the best way to prevent measles.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cdc-measles-treatment-guidance/

#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #vaccinations #immunizations #HHS #CDC

"For as long as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has falsely claimed that vaccines cause widespread harm — from autism to sudden death — he has pointed to the one source he says could immediately prove it...Now, it appears that anti-vaccine activists are similarly girding for the possibility that Kennedy’s promises may fall short — and they’re already laying the groundwork for someone to blame."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/kennedy-vaccine-safety-datalink-conspiracy-theory-rcna203411

#PublicHealth #vaccines #vaccinations #immunization #misinformation

#RFKJr and #health agency falsely claim #MMR #vaccine includes ‘aborted fetus debris’ | Robert F Kennedy Jr | The Guardian

This man may once have been a harmless crank but he is now a serious danger to #PublicHealth. With no formal medical training, he is the head of the US health department. I shouldn’t really be surprised; it seems to me that a qualification to be in #Trump's cabinet is that you have to be incompetent and unqualified.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/01/rfk-mmr-vaccines-fetus-claim

#Medicine #Health #Vaccinations

"In a commentary published this week, former officials Phil Krause and Luciana Borio called on the FDA to 'stick to its normal processes.'

'Shifting standards and late-stage demands for new data — based on faulty scientific assumptions — erode trust, delay access to important tools, and discourage developers from advancing vaccine innovation,' they wrote."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-covid-booster-shots-marty-makary/

#healthcare #FDA #covid #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #USpol

"Former government health officials fear the Trump administration is moving to slow-walk vaccine approvals, including by imposing new regulatory hurdles on drugmakers, such as changing the requirements for approval or seeking additional clinical trial data."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-appears-slow-walking-vaccine-approvals-rcna202596

#healthcare #FDA #HHS #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #covid

#VaccinerProtéger | Afin de simplifier l’accès à la vaccination de la population, les sages-femmes, infirmiers et pharmaciens peuvent prescrire ou administrer des vaccins selon les recommandations du calendrier des #vaccinations.

📲 : https://sante.gouv.fr/prevention-en-sante/preserver-sa-sante/vaccination/extension-des-competences-vaccinales-des-professionnels-de-sante/
#SEV2025

Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s “autism cure” quest reeks of eugenics

While claiming to seek a "cure" for autism, Robert F Kennedy Jr places autistic people on a spectrum ranging from inconvenient to undesirable

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/04/robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-autism-cure-quest-reeks-of-eugenics/

#Health #Politics #Vaccinations

"Researchers have estimated approximately 8% of Americas have ever experienced long COVID, or lasting symptoms, following an acute COVID-19 infection. Now two recent international studies suggest that the percentage is much higher among healthcare workers and dental professionals."

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/studies-detail-high-rates-long-covid-among-healthcare-dental-workers

#healthcare #dental #covid #LongCovid #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #PublicHealth

PsyPost: Media habits predict vaccination and trust in science — and not always how you’d expect. “A new study published in Scientific Reports suggests that people who consume a more ideologically diverse mix of news sources are more likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and to trust science—regardless of their personal political beliefs. At the same time, consuming more conservative […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/psypost-media-habits-predict-vaccination-and-trust-in-science-and-not-always-how-youd-expect/

#Whoopingcough cases are rising again in the #US

The illness is most dangerous for #infants, especially before they receive their first round of #vaccinations.

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/nation-world/whooping-cough-cases-rising-again/507-b322a88b-1e12-4e48-af99-fec8d9364874

I can't help but think about those poor kids whose had no choice in the parents they have who put them in danger or the quack doctors who fly in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence.

#measles #vaccinations

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/controversial-doc-gets-measles-while-treating-unvaccinated-kids-keeps-working/

"Whooping cough has been increasing since the early 2000s, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, with about 10,000 reported cases each year. The spread slowed during the pandemic lockdown, as many infectious illnesses did, but cases are rising once again...Vaccine hesitancy in general is playing a major role in the increase."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/whooping-cough-surges-vaccines-decline-us-rcna201853

#PublicHealth #WhoopingCough #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations

"'The vaccine is highly effective,' said Rohde. 'But it means that after two doses, while 97 out of 100 people will develop strong immunity and be protected if exposed to measles, the remaining three out of 100 could still be vulnerable.'

However, he said, it’s also plausible that those people may not have realized they weren’t fully vaccinated against measles."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-breakthrough-infections-causes-vaccine-symptoms-rcna201799

#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations