Originally published at: Parents And Doctors Are Left in the Dark Amid Trump Admin’s Murky Childhood Vaccine Guidelines - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Dr. Jessica Weisz, a pediatrician in D.C., has seen more and more parents who are skeptical about vaccinating their children.She cares for about 15 families a day, and said that what used to be monthly questions about vaccine safety have become weekly ones. But, she emphasized, that was not yet the norm. “Overwhelmingly, most parents…
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“Left in the dark”? Hardly. Doctors have their reputable medical journals and other communications to go by. Parents can either trust their physicians’ knowledge … or vote Republican. The kicker is, what will the insurance companies do?
If vaccines are no longer covered, that’s more money immediately for Big Insurance. But they will pay out more to treat the likely sicknesses and other conditions that will arise from an unvaccinated population. And these costs will start slow and keep rising, as fewer and fewer children get “the jabs.”
Are insurance companies required to follow the latest Department of RFK Junior guidance?
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Are doctors more at risk for being sued for any vaccine reaction, although very rare, if they deviated from FDA protocol? MAGA will blame anything on vaccines
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In a sane world, a doctor would only need to say the following to a parent: “RFK Jr. is a substance abuse-addled eugenicist. He believes that anyone dumb enough to trust his anti-vax quackery should be wiped out by disease while the wealthy continue to protect themselves with modern medicine.”
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The “Pro-Life” party once again adopting policies that will cause large numbers of needless deaths.
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Why any parent would listen to RFK and this bunch pf lunatics is beyond me. Listen to the doctor, they are the ones who went to Med School and if you want a 2nd opinion which they generally recommend, get one. But get it from another doctor.
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Under conservative control our government is being used to harm America and Americans not help them.
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I agree with you, but those “mommy influencers” carry a lot of weight. You can say anything on the Internet and people will believe you.
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more parents than not still trust childhood immunization safety.
Q: Were you immunized?
A: Yes.
Q: Are you dead?
A: No.
Q: What’s the problem?
A: Trump…
Q: Say no more.
Immunize your children against debilitating and deadly disease.
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I think you’re leaving out the part where getting most kids vaccinated also helps those kids that are immune compromised.
I heard this on NPR yesterday. And my other concern is why is the HHS trying use Denmark as their model? Denmark is about the size of the state of WI. Denmark has 6 million in population as opposed to the US with 340 million.
Denmark has a land border with Germany and Sweden. I wonder how diverse the make up of their gene pool is in comparison to the US?
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Denmark gets about 60% of its electrical power from wind. It’s clear that the whole country has been afflicted. Someone needs to alert the White House. /s
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There is a significant quadrant of people who will take the advise of internet bots over medical professionals. They’ve been active since before the pandemic and will not relent.
Even when confronted with deaths from not being vaccinated, they will not relent.
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While I don’t have a reason to trust RFK and his minions I’m always surprised when I see people here and at other left leaning forums accept at face value medical recommendations by the federal government.
The Left seems to appropriately distrust big business except for Big Pharma. They apparently can do no wrong even as they have been shown to be one of the most corrupt and influential lobbies in the history of mankind. And have killed millions of people with their heavily promoted unbelievably overpriced medication‘s that get approved routinely in part because of the revolving door between federal bureaucracy and big medicine and big Pharma
That doesn’t mean we should stop vaccinating children but it does mean we should look at the arguments that the right is making against vaccination recommendations and take them seriously and evaluate them on the merits and not dismiss them just because they come from people and institutions that most of us don’t agree with on most everything else.
Can we act a little less tribal and a little bit more discerning in our perspectives on vaccination?
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The U.S. reportedly plans to follow an immunization schedule similar to that of Denmark.
Do they also plan to make our health care delivery system similar to that of Denmark?
Yeah … didn’t think so.
Let’s take the infant hepatitis B vaccine, because that’s the entry point for this whole busted line of reasoning. Denmark only vaccinates infants born to mothers at high risk for hep B. But Denmark has very few undiagnosed high risk people, because access to health services there is pretty much free and universal.
Not so in the U.S. of course. In these here United States, when you’ve got the mom in the hospital for the baby’s delivery, that may be one of your few chances for any intervention at all! It’s a totally different health environment.
So the whole “why can’t we be like Denmark” line that the antivaxxers pulled at that gadawful advisory board meeting is actually a really good question – but only if you ask it comprehensively! And not, as they were doing, as an intellectually dishonest smokescreen for their antivaxx agenda.
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The good news is their deaths take care of that stubbornness.
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And if their stupidity only killed them, that would be their choice. But it doesn’t. Infectious disease is, y’know, infectious.
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[citation needed]
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Most of Trumps lackies are just grifters trying to get rich off of the ignorance of the rubes but RFK Jr is different. He is actively trying to kill children. Could somebody explain why?
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I think he’s genuinely nuts.
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