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U.S. overhauls childhood vaccine schedule, recommends fewer shots
The new strategy would no longer broadly recommend vaccines for flu, hepatitis A and B, rotavirus and meningitis. The Trump administration says this aligns the U.S. with peer countries.
www.washingtonpost.com
Just depressing. Without a universal healthcare system, the lack of federal recommendations will be devastating to large segments of our society
The CDC will no longer recommend every child receive vaccines for rotavirus, influenza, meningococcal disease, respiratory syncytial virus, hep. A & hep. B
The CDC will no longer recommend every child receive vaccines for rotavirus, influenza, meningococcal disease, respiratory syncytial virus, hep. A & hep. B
FDA's ridiculous claims about COVID vaccines hurt our kids | Opinion
Banning children from riding in cars is ridiculous, but there's more data to support it than there is for not vaccinating children from COVID-19.
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Banning children from riding in cars is of course ridiculous, but there's more data to support this contention than there is to support not vaccinating children from COVID-19. What Dr. Prasad (FDA Vaccine Chief) did accomplish is to document the high degree of safety of pediatric COVID vaccinations
Healthcare in Phoenix is masking up. Masks are now required.
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Are we funding another Tuskegee experiment?
This is of high concern. This time withholding Hep-B vaccine to African Children. Needless to say, there is no clinical equipoise and ethics of this trial are highly questionable.
This is of high concern. This time withholding Hep-B vaccine to African Children. Needless to say, there is no clinical equipoise and ethics of this trial are highly questionable.
FDA intends to put most serious warning on COVID vaccines, CNN reports
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to put a "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccines, CNN reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the agency's plans.
www.reuters.com
If this happens, it will be unbelievably destructive to not only public health but the health of America.
A boxed warning—the FDA’s most serious alert—highlights risks such as death or life-threatening or disabling reactions that must be weighed against a medication’s benefits.
A boxed warning—the FDA’s most serious alert—highlights risks such as death or life-threatening or disabling reactions that must be weighed against a medication’s benefits.
mRNA COVID vaccines tied to drop in death rate for 4 years
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A large national cohort study from France didn’t observe any increase in all-cause mortality in adults up to four years after receipt of a COVID mRNA vaccine, and vaccination was linked to a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of death from any cause.
CDC study says Covid shots continue to protect healthy kids from severe illness
Researchers found that Covid vaccines reduced the risk of emergency room and urgent care visits by 56% to 76%. Some federal health officials have sowed doubt about the shots.
www.nbcnews.com
CDC study finds that Covid vaccines continue to protect healthy children from severe illness, a conclusion federal health officials have questioned. vaccines reduced the risk of Covid-related ER & urgent care visits by 76% among children ages 9 mo. to 4 yrs, and by 56% among children ages 5-17 yrs.
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
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Another study that observed a lower death rate in COVID-19 vaccinated individuals. Long term all-cause death rates were also 25% lower, possibly indicating a positive effect in preventing the complications of long-COVID. Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19.
Why is delaying the Hep B vaccine unsafe?
First, no test or patient history is 100% accurate. Second, a delayed vaccination is too often a missed vaccination.
First, no test or patient history is 100% accurate. Second, a delayed vaccination is too often a missed vaccination.
It has been over 50 years since I started my medical education and practice. I have never before encountered a sign such as this. An era has ended. God help us all.
CDC’s vaccine advisory panel faces a crisis of its own making
“ACIP has drifted toward inflating speculative risks while downplaying well-established vaccine benefits,” write former CDC officials Demetre Daskalakis, Daniel Jernigan, and Debra Houry.
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CDC’s vaccine advisory panel faces a crisis.. Kennedy has positioned himself as a champion of scientific rigor an... personally ordered revisions to CDC vaccine-safety webpages and announced changes to Covid-19 vaccine guidance — without new evidence and without CDC subject-matter review.
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HW USA Dec. 2025 Newsletter - Vaccine Disinformation & The Importance of Clean Indoor Air. Download Newsletter: www.healthwatchusa.org/HWUSA-Public...
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Combating Infectious Disease Course
Gain current knowledge on 6 critical public health challenges: H5N1 Bird Flu spillover, post-COVID respiratory trends (
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Combating Infectious Disease Challenges
Continuing Medical Education. This course outlines public health strategies & imperatives which need to be implemented in healthcare settings during the post-pandemic/endemic phase of COVID-19, and before the emergence of new respiratory pathogens.
Continuing Medical Education. This course outlines public health strategies & imperatives which need to be implemented in healthcare settings during the post-pandemic/endemic phase of COVID-19, and before the emergence of new respiratory pathogens.
Indoor Air Quality In Our Schools - Lisa Greenfield
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Lisa Greenfield, CAFS, from the Center for Green Schools at the U,S. Green Building Council presents "Indoor Air Quality In Our Schools." Health Watch USA Meeting, Nov. 19, 2025. view video youtu.be/fcIJhMi1Raw
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The common vaccines that can prevent chronic disease or some cancers
In addition to cancer, a growing body of research has shown that vaccines can reduce the risk of developing dementia and heart conditions.
www.washingtonpost.com
In addition to cancer, research has shown that vaccines can reduce the risk of developing dementia &heart disease. “Because many people haven’t witnessed the devastation once caused by diseases that are now vaccine-preventable, it’s easy to underestimate the risks of not getting vaccinated.”
Rand Paul COVID vaccine theories aren't helping to bridge public health divide | Opinion
The hyper partisan assault on public health has to stop. If not, tens of thousands of lives and livelihoods will be lost.
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There appears to be no end in sight with discrediting vaccines and public health initiatives. The American Academy of Pediatrics has reported that approximately 234,000 children have been hospitalized in the United States with COVID-19.
The Trump-Administration Change That Could Cripple Nursing
A federal cap on borrowing for graduate nursing students and others isn’t just making nurses angry, but it could harm the health-care system.
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Under the proposal, graduate students pursuing a “professional” degree will be allowed to borrow up to $50,000 annually with an aggregate loan limit of $200,000. But a prospective student enrolled in a graduate nursing program could seek only up to $20,500 annually with an overall limit of $100,000.
Measles Vaccine Misinformation, The Origins and Impact
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Excellent short presentation by Dr Wilmore Webley, PhD, Univ. Mass. Amherst regarding misinformation surrounding the measles vaccine and autism, along with the numerous studies refuting this contention, and the negative impact of the Andrew Wakefield study which helps perpetuate this misconception.
Here are just some of the research articles debunking the vaccines causing autism claim. Slide courtesy of Dr Wilmore Webley.
I was in a major car accident and for the next few weeks will have reduced activity Blue Sky. So sorry.
What new CDC message on vaccines and autism means for Arizona health
One national patient safety advocate says the latest CDC update on vaccine safety is "pseudoscience taken to a whole new level."
www.azcentral.com
Dr.Kavanagh: misinformation about vaccines & autism goes back to a long-ago debunked study published in The Lancet that implied a link between autism & the MMR vaccine. "Its pseudoscience taken to a whole new level, where it's being given credibility. possibly costing the lives of tens of thousands"
Shared Clinical Decision-Making for COVID-19 Vaccination
This Viewpoint discusses shared clinical decision-making for COVID-19 vaccination.
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CDC's Failure to Recommend COVID-19 Vaccination—
“Shared Clinical Decision-Making” Is Abdication of Responsibility. A key criterion for the use of (SCDM) is equipoise, meaning there is no evidence-based best choice. The administration may now be tempted to apply SCDM to childhood vaccinations.
“Shared Clinical Decision-Making” Is Abdication of Responsibility. A key criterion for the use of (SCDM) is equipoise, meaning there is no evidence-based best choice. The administration may now be tempted to apply SCDM to childhood vaccinations.
Vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in children and young people in England: a retrospective, population-based cohort study using linked electronic health recor...
Children and young people have higher risks of rare vascular and inflammatory diseases
up to 12 months after a first COVID-19 diagnosis and higher risk of rare myocarditis
or pericarditis up to 4 week...
www.thelancet.com
Children have higher risks of rare vascular & inflammatory diseases up to 12 mo. after a 1st COVID-19 diagnosis & higher risk of rare myocarditis or pericarditis up to 4 wks after a 1st Pfizer vaccine, although the risk following vaccination is substantially lower than the risk following infection.
‘God is an anti-vaxxer’: Inside the conference celebrating RFK Jr.’s rise
An anti-vaccine conference in Austin celebrated Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rise to political power, highlighting his influence in Trump’s Washington.
www.washingtonpost.com
A very depressing article: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Beyond the Myocarditis Headlines: What the Data and Our Memory Say About COVID-19 Shots for Kids
Recommendations for COVID-19 vaccine administration are becoming more restrictive. The withdrawal of recommendations are being driven by the fear of vaccine related myocarditis.
www.linkedin.com
Vinay Prasad, FDA’s vaccine chief, stated in a manuscript he coauthored, that with the exception of the 2nd dose of Moderna's Spikevax vaccine, "The incidence of myocarditis found for young men after SARS-CoV-2 infection is larger than what we found for myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination."
COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?
Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.
www.nature.com
"Surveillance is happening but it’s at a much lower level than it used to be. We don’t have a complete picture of virus circulation of the variants that are out there,” says Maria Van Kerkhove, interim director at the WHO. “I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19,” she adds."
An interesting & frustrating 100 yr old article in the Douglas Island News (Douglas, AK) published on Nov 15, 1918 (source newspaper.com ) shows much of the same advice being issued to prevent the spread of airborne pathogens. Needless to say, this is NOT a political issue. This is long held advice
Correct, my bad, the picture was on Stephen Corbert
Yes, correction needed, this was on Stephen Corbert
Collateral effects of COVID-19 pandemic control on the US infectious disease landscape
Using data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) disease surveillance systems, we sought to quantify the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the possibilit...
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The effect of lockdowns and public health strategies had an overall positive effect on the prevention of infectious diseases.
"Although several endemic infections have rebounded to prepandemic levels of notification since 2020, the overall burden from infectious disease has been reduced. "
"Although several endemic infections have rebounded to prepandemic levels of notification since 2020, the overall burden from infectious disease has been reduced. "