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"As vaccination rates among children continue to plummet, concerns are rising over the potential for infectious diseases to spread rampantly in the coming years and decades. Research published in the medical journal JAMA suggests a continued decline could lead to millions of infections from diseases currently considered under control or eradicated."

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5400981-measles-rubella-polio-return-preventable-diseases/

#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #measles #rubella #polio #pregnancy #HHS #CDC

As families across the state prepare for back to school, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is reminding parents and caretakers to make sure their children are up to date on all required #immunizations before classes resume. Children entering school, child care, or other early learning programs must receive certain #vaccinations before they can start. These immunization requirements apply to all enrolled children, including those learning remotely.

"Emergency vaccination programmes – rolled out in response to outbreaks of five major diseases – are believed to have reduced deaths by around 60% over a period of 23 years, according to a new study...The study also points to the significant economic benefits of vaccination programmes, which run into billions of dollars."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9x4yd27mro

#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #ebola #cholera #YellowFever #measles #meningitis #IDMastodon #GlobalHealth #InternationalHealth

@HelenBranswell Promoting to #Vaccinations

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cut to U.S. funding for GAVI risks lives globally and damages America’s international standing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/07/world/rfk-endangers-babies-lives/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #robertfkennedy #rfk #donadtrump #gavi #covax #covid19 #health #medicine #vaccinations

"The Trump administration appears to be expanding RSV vaccinations to some adults starting at age 50, down from 60, following the advice of a recently fired panel of government vaccine advisers.

The decision appears on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage but as of Wednesday wasn’t on the agency’s official adult immunization schedule."

https://apnews.com/article/rsv-cdc-vaccine-advisers-kennedy-21e52249fcc51032e1c85f713ccdcdbd

#PublicHealth #RSV #vaccines #vaccinations #immunizations #CDC #ACIP #HHS

💉 #Vaccines coverage warning: An estimated 15.7 million #children worldwide had not received any routine #vaccinations as of 2023 due to #Covid disruptions and #misinformation. Experts believe recent cuts to global #aid will make the situation worse. www.euronews.com/health/2025/...

Why children aren’t getting va...

Doctors, insurers, pharmacists & medical & #PublicHealth groups are closely following #ACIP decisions. The cmte’s decisions also guide #vaccine requirements for #school #admissions, affect the ability of pharmacists to administer shots & 🚨ensure that a govt program continues to give #FREE #vaccinations to roughly HALF OF #CHILDREN in the #UnitedStates.

#RFKJr #Trump #eugenics #education #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination

The announcement of the review of #immunization schedules came during a meeting of the Advisory Cmte on Immunization Practices, which makes recommendations to the #CDC on which #vaccines should be recommended, for whom & whether they will be 🚨 covered by #HealthInsurance.

[meaning, the #poor & anyone on #Medicare or #Medicaid will not be able to afford the soon-to-be out-of-pocket #vaccinations]

#Trump #eugenics #science #PublicHealth #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy

#RFKJr, who founded an #AntiVaccine group, has long called for an investigation into the number of #vaccinations #children receive. Medical #experts say that Kennedy has falsely linked that increase to a rise of chronic disease, noting that more #vaccines are available now to combat #diseases & that his link has no basis in #evidence. Medical experts & the federal govt recommend the #HepatitisB #vaccine, because it prevents the #LiverDisease, which can be passed along at #birth.

#PublicHealth

Majority of Americans Support Childhood Vaccination Despite RFK Policy Shifts

Most Americans support routine childhood vaccine requirements even as they become more politically charged, according to a new poll released Wednesday. A survey by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the de Beaumont Foundation found that 79 percent of Americans believe parents should be required to vaccinate their children against preventable diseases to attend school.

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Lied to by all of those crazy enough and cynical and mean enough (since these decisions affect OTHERS, not just yourself) to want to dump science and all it offers us.

#measles #Texas #vaccines #vaccinations #science #medicine #healthcare #MAGA #RFKJr
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Kiley and Carrollyn Timmons had chosen not to vaccinate their children.

Now Timmons says he feels like he's been lied to — by those who say measles are a piece of cake, those who say vaccination is harmful for children and adults, those who say you can contend with serious infectious illness with nostrums, simples, prayers, and supplements, etc.

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Then, though measles had been eliminated in the US twenty-five years ago, parents refusing vaccination for their children brought it back, with a big outbreak in west Texas, and Timmons and his wife and children all got measles — and were all very, very sick. The whole family had to be hospitalized, with Timmons texting a friend to say he felt like he was dying.

#measles #Texas #vaccines #vaccinations #science #medicine #healthcare #MAGA #RFKJr
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They wanted to "do their own research" and rely on nostrums and simples and faith to keep well and get well. He was of the same mind. He had been told measles is a piece of cake: you can get over it easily, with few harmful symptoms, especially if you beef up your body with supplements.

#measles #Texas #vaccines #vaccinations #science #medicine #healthcare #MAGA #RFKJr
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Eli Saslow's report is a fascinating (and ominous) must-read report on a medical worker in west Texas (a chiropractor who treats other illnesses), Kiley Timmons, and his family's experience with measles.

His medical work had catered to people who were skeptical of conventional medicine, vaccines, etc.

#measles #Texas #vaccines #vaccinations #science #medicine #healthcare #MAGA #RFKJr
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/i-feel-like-ive-been-lied-to-when-a-measles-outbreak-hits-home.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q08.37i-.I42Do3C6uXrt&smid=url-share

CIDRAP: Vaccine RCT spreadsheet aims to show the data, dispel myths about vaccines. “The project, led by Jake Scott, MD, is a spreadsheet of all the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that have ever been conducted for licensed vaccines.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/cidrap-vaccine-rct-spreadsheet-aims-to-show-the-data-dispel-myths-about-vaccines/

Today in #Employer Coverage: Friday Shorts, including pharmacogrenomic testing to save lives, #vaccinations and medical debt, and marketplace premiums.

https://open.substack.com/pub/employercoverage/p/friday-shorts-pharmacogenomic-testing?r=ovpa4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false. @KFFHealthNews