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Yes, bring crocheting back.

But do not bring chickenpox back with it.
Crocheting is cool again. Chickenpox is not. Get vaccinated.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Polaroid pictures are in. Congenital rubella syndrome is not.

Vaccinate so your kids can learn what was cool when you were young.
Bring it back: a picture of a Polaroid camera. Keep it gone: a picture of a rubella rash. Rubella is never in style. Vaccinate.
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Before we had a vaccine, around 18,000 kids were infected with hep B in the US every year.

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Even today, around 25,000 babies in the U.S. are born each year to moms with Hep B. If a newborn catches it, about 90% of them will stay infected for life. This raises their chances of liver disease and liver cancer later on. There are many reasons why mothers don’t know they have Hep B. The test for Hep B is harder to understand than some other tests. A mom might get infected after her first test during pregnancy, but before giving birth. Tests can also be wrong sometimes, showing a false “negative.” Mistakes can happen too—like ordering the wrong test, reading the results wrong, or not sharing the results clearly.
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Flu is the cause of so many doctor's visits every winter.

An apple a day might help you, but a flu shot will too.
Flu was the reason for 18 million doctor's visits last year. This year: vaccinate.
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Join us this Wednesday for our monthly Vaccine Advocates workshop. We’re going to be talking about how to navigate vaccine conversations with family members (with the holidays on their way).

We’ll have fun and learn a lot. Sign up here: bit.ly/4i1i7SP
Come learn how to advocate with us! Wednesday November 12th. 1:00 PM EST
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Influenza is harder to get over if you’re pregnant. It’s extra important to get a flu shot if you’re expecting.
Each trimester of pregnancy makes influenza riskier. Vaccines bring the risk down.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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When we talk about needing 'herd immunity' to disease, kids like Beckett are why.
October 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Beckett cannot protect himself from influenza or COVID.

His family needs your help this fall.
October 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Influenza can cause or trigger a brain condition called ANE. Beckett experienced it last flu season.

With vaccines, we hope he doesn't have to again.
October 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Destiny went from anti-vaccine to pro-vaccine.
September 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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One of the pediatricians who helped defeat polio says he truly believed in the power of the vaccine. Today's conspiracies don't make sense to him.
September 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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You wanna know what actually DOES cause autism?
Rubella infection during pregnancy CAUSES AUTISM. More accurately, it raises the risk of autism. Scientists have learned that there is not one thing that cause autism, but that a combination of multiple genetic and environmental factors is the usual cause.
September 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Where do spike proteins go? The claim: Two new studies claim that people vaccinated with mRNA COVID vaccines have had proteins detected in their breastmilk and their brain. The facts: Any protein a baby (or anyone else) ingests get denatured in the stomach. This includes the trace amounts of mRNA that may make it into breastmilk.
September 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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There is a hierarchy of scientific evidence. You can find a one off study that says anything. But high quality studies have shown COVID vaccines to be safe.
September 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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High coverage with a complete series of infant hepatitis B vaccination, beginning with a birth dose and followed by at least 2 additional doses, can prevent 710,000 HBV-related deaths globally among those born between 2020 and 2030.

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Why do we vaccinate at birth for hepatitis b? Hepatitis B is an incurable disease caused by the highly contagious HBV virus. Newborns infected with the hepatitis B virus are at risk for liver cancer and premature mortality in later life. Hepatitis B vaccine is safe and protects newborns from hepatitis B, which can be transmitted during birth or through household exposure. Screening mothers for HBV isn't perfect! To ensure protection, all newborns are recommended to receive hepatitis B vaccination.
September 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Testing mothers for hepatitis B has not proven to be a perfect strategy. Testing & vaccinating, two layers of prevention, is a better approach.

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Several reasons led to many children being born to mothers with hepatitis B who didn’t know they had it. Testing for hep B is more complicated than other kinds of tests. Thus, some mothers caught hep B after they got tested during prenatal care and before they gave birth. Tests can sometimes give false negatives. Other mistakes in testing include ordering the wrong tests, misreading the results, or miscommunicating the results.
September 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Hep B vaccine safety has been studied for more than 5 days, contrary to what some have said.

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The Facts: This claim relies on package insert data, as opposed to actual clinical trial information. Vaccine inserts are legal documents and not medical or research documents. Looking at the actual clinical trial information for the Hep B vaccine shows that the “five days” were specifically for injection site non-serious adverse events (NSAEs). Researchers watched for serious events for the length of the study (5 months for that particular study), 14 days for systemic NSAEs (i.e., fevers), and five only days for the injection site NSAEs.
September 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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HHS says that 1000 moms transmit hep B to their babies at birth per year!

More info on the birth dose here: www.voicesforvaccines.org/jtf_topics/d...
Mother-to-child transmission of HBV is especially concerning, because it is preventable. An estimated 25,000 infants are born to mothers diagnosed with HBV each year in the United States, and approximately 1,000 mothers transmit HBV to their infants. Without appropriate medical care and vaccinations, 90% of HBV-infected newborns will develop chronic infection, remaining infected throughout their lives. Up to 25% of people infected at birth will die prematurely of HBV-related causes. For this reason, the standard of care for pregnant women includes an HBV test during each pregnancy so that the appropriate steps can be taken to prevent HBV-positive mothers from transmitting the disease to her infant.
September 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Withholding treatments known to be effective against disease has some ethical problems.
September 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Rubella was an absolutely devastating disease. Then we crushed it with vaccines.
Excerpt from the CDC website: During the last major rubella epidemic in the United States from 1964 to 1965, an estimated: 12.5 million people got rubella 11,000 pregnant women lost their babies 2,100 newborns died 20,000 babies were born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) Once the vaccine became widely used, the number of people infected with rubella in the United States dropped dramatically.
September 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The form of mercury that was used in a small proportion of flu vaccines was safe. Because not all mercury-containing compounds are the same.
What about thimerosal? Few vaccines contain thimerosal, and it is easy to get thimerosal-free vaccines if you choose. Thimerosal is an organic, ethylmercury compound. The mercury can be harmful to humans is methylmercury. Ethylmercury: Leaves your body in less than a week and is unlikely to cause harm. Found in a few vaccines and in contact solutions. Methylmercury: This can build up in your body and cause harm in high levels. Found in many kinds of fish and shellfish.
September 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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"In 1994, Congress stripped the FDA of its power to review supplements for safety and effectiveness."

They didn't do that for vaccines.
Big Pharma Vs Big Wellness. The wellness industry is nearly 4 times as big as big pharma. Deregulation has led to contaminated or mislabeled supplements, risky drug interactions, and unsafe products for babies. Supplements can still make unproven claims without evidence, duping consumers into buying ineffective, unregulated products."
September 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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We can prevent liver cancer from day 1.
Hepatitis B Foundation: Liver Cancer Can Be Prevented at Birth. Hepatitis B vaccination is the first step to preventing liver cancer.
September 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Hey, turns out we recommend the Hep B birth dose for a reason.

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It was the late 1980s and the American plan to combat hepatitis B wasn’t working. A vaccine had been available since 1982 and recommended for those deemed to be at highest risk, such as health care workers and men who have sex with men. But the infection rates had gone up, not down. When epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dug into the data, they noticed one figure that had stayed alarmingly stable: Between 30% and 40% of hepatitis B patients had no identifiable risk factors at all. When they published their paper in 1990, it was subtitled, “Need for Alternative Vaccination Strategies.” The next year, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — the CDC body that sets such guidelines — recommended vaccinating all infants. Over the next two decades, case numbers plummeted by 99% among children and teens.
September 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Destiny was against vaccines for much of her life, until the pandemic.

She said the anti-COVID vaccine rhetoric was tired and recycled. So she got her own daughter vaccinated.
September 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM