Florida’s Governor Plans to End All Childhood Vaccine Mandates
With the approval of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the state’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, announced on Sept. 3, 2025 that all mandates for childhood vaccines should end in the sunshine state.1 The call for elimination of vaccine mandates in Florida came just a week after the charitable National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) published […]
U.S. Government Will Revive 1990s-Era Childhood Vaccine Safety Task Force
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced on Aug. 14, 2025 that it would be reviving a Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines that was created under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 but was disbanded in 1998. The task force was “a federal panel created by Congress to improve […]
Repeal Mandatory Vaccination Laws: There Are No Exemptions to Informed Consent | Barbara Loe Fisher
The dystopian response by governments to the COVID-19 pandemic taught us a hard lesson. Never before had human populations around the world simultaneously watched medical doctors and government officials use fear and propaganda to suddenly catapult societies into a social, economic and ethical meltdown. We were ordered to hide in our homes, cover our faces […]
FDA Revokes EUA Status for COVID-19 Shots
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has revoked emergency use authorization (EUA) for the COVID-19 shots. The federal government had relied on the EUA status to justify release of the COVID-19 biologicals in December 2020 for public distribution without full licensure by the FDA.1 On Aug. 27, 2025, DHHS Secretary Robert F. […]
CDC’s Been Hurting a Long Time
The firing of the 17 sitting members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on June 9, 2025 initiated a firestorm of criticism about the new direction the CDC is taking. There […]
AAP and CDC Disagree on Vaccine Use Recommendations
Following new childhood vaccine use recommendations issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released its own childhood vaccine schedule that differs from the CDC’s new recommendations.1 Citing “evidence based” guidelines, the AAP issued a press release stating, “It (the AAP childhood vaccine schedule) differs […]