One of the most striking slides in yesterday's ACIP: vaccination does affect viral transmission

After all, mRNA vaccines were deemed useful by the same people that constantly maligned them and now run ACIP. "Just let it be someone else's decision, not ours". Their disinformation was either a vehicle to gain power, or a lie that, when in need of scientific evidence, didn't find any...

Their proposed policy bans access to vaccines for "healthy adults", ignoring the thousands "healthy adults" that perished in the pandemic, ignoring the mid-term cardiovascular & neurological sequelae, ignoring Long Covid, and ignoring the (yes, transient and partial) protection from infection.

Virus, 1980. A film about a lethal virus, no vaccine available, and something that reminds us of the present times:

It was Carter's prestige that allowed for wide ivermectin distribution- >500 million doses for river blindness. >200 million doses of azithromycin for trachoma. Hundreds of thousands of opthalmic surgical interventions (image from the same AJTMH editorial) 4/n

Up until November 12, 2024, there were only SEVEN human cases of dracunculiasis reported worldwide. In 1986, when the Carter Center targeted the disease for elimination, there were more than 3.5 MILLION annual cases. (Image from Mark Eberhard's editorial in the AJTMH Sept.2024 special issue) 2/n

It was perhaps Jimmy Carter's most significant heritage: it was the Carter Center that was crucial in the path towards dracunculiasis elimination. An Alien-like parasitosis that few, in the developed world, knew or cared about (images are derived from its site) 1/n

Chiral nutrients will not be an issue: Back in 1970, in the "Spock Must Die!" story, a mirror Dr. Spock emerged, and quickly adapted by developing appropriate food from mirror nutrients- bacterial evolution can be as clever 3/n

1964, in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, Sterling Hayden’s general proclaimed: “Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to deal with?” Now, some urge us to learn to stop worrying and love an impending health bomb… 5/n