CDC’s ACIP Vaccine Advisory Panel Lacks Leader and Voting Members
Opinion | In making decisions about which vaccines should or should not be given to people and when developing childhood, adolescent and adult vaccination schedules, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) heavily relies on recommendations provided by an outside group of 15 medical and public health professionals, who make up a panel known […]
Vaccination Exemption Rates Increased Among U.S. Kindergarteners in 40 States
A new report published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) states that during the 2022–2023 school year, vaccination coverage remained at 93 percent for all reported vaccines. However, the vaccine exemption rate increased 0.4 percentage points to three percent. Exemptions increased in 41 states, and […]
CDC Says All Children Traveling Abroad Need Extra MMR Shot to Prevent Measles in U.S.
After 16 cases of measles were reported in the U.S. linked to international travel, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert on June 21, 2023, recommending that all eligible infants aged six months or older get an extra measles vaccine before traveling abroad this summer. Despite being licensed by […]
Pediatricians Get Paid to Push Vaccines. And It’s No Small Amount of Cash.
Opinion | In April 2023, I reported how primary care providers across the U.S. were bribed with incentive programs to coerce patients into getting the toxic COVID-19 shot. Since there was no medical malpractice liability, doctors profited while patients risked their lives as participants in an unprecedented medical experiment, all while being lied to about […]
Rhode Island Supreme Court Issues Temporary Stay Protecting Children from COVID Vaccination
The Rhode Island Supreme Court sided with a father who does not want his daughter to be vaccinated for COVID-19 in the first case of a parental disagreement over a COVID-19 shot to reach the highest court in a state. The court issued a temporary stay preventing the mother from giving the party’s two daughters […]
AAP Says Obese Children Should Be Treated “Aggressively” With Drugs and Surgery
New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) state that obese children should be evaluated and treated “early and aggressively” with medications or weight loss surgeries.1 This is the first guidance from the AAP in 15 years on childhood obesity, which affects more than 14.4 million children in the U.S. and has tripled in […]