For the first time in 25 years, child mortality rates for preventable diseases are projected to increase, after having declined for 25 years

What a terribly written sentence.

Gee, I wonder why? (Glares at RFK Junior, who is busy writing terrible sexual poetry to a woman 40 years younger than him while his wife stares coldly at the back of RFK Junior’s head).

The headline repeated the same thing twice.

Children dying from preventable causes is a cornerstone of Republican ideology.

Thanks MAGA, you f’ing clowns

Bravo Americans.

Sadly, I’m not surprised, and I think the reasons why are obvious enough. Nevertheless, I’m going to dispute as much misinformation as I can.

Starting with the government’s recent decision related to Hepatitis B vaccine recommendations:

Contrary to claims from Trump, his supporters and high ranking health officials in the government (RFK Jr. and his company of “MAHA” fanatics), the Hep B vaccine has an amazing safety record. Decades of research and monitoring show that there is no evidence of serious long term harm in infants or children.

This research has shown no link between the Hep B vaccine and neurological disorders in children.

Before universal vaccination, 18,000 children contracted Hep B every year.

90 percent of newborns who were infected with Hep B developed chronic disease, which often led to things like liver disease, cancer or death.

Since then, cases have dropped by at least 95 percent. Fewer than 20 babies per year are infected at birth.

The benefits of this vaccine significantly outweigh whatever risks conservatives might mistakenly believe are associated with it.

Also, Hep B is not only transmitted from mother to infant via birth canal, but also from many other environmental sources of exposure. Newborns are highly vulnerable to the disease.

This argument falsely speculating that an infant or a child’s immune system is “too weak” for vaccination can actually be turned around to make the case that infants and children are extremely vulnerable to diseases that can be prevented through overwhelmingly safe vaccines.

Universal vaccination was also introduced because It’s far and above the most effective way to eliminate Hep B exposure and infection long term. This isn’t just about preventing Hep B transmission to children because the fewer children we vaccinate, the greater the chance we risk exposing the broader population to the virus. This is a fundamental reason why we vaccinate in the first place.

Hep B vaccination is also recommended because it’s impossible to guarantee no risk of an infant’s or child’s exposure to Hep B due to things like testing errors, future contact with the virus, susceptibility risk, and even untested caregivers. These risks only increase when we stop vaccinating children.

**Vaccines and autism:**

The debunked claim that vaccines cause autism originated from a small study back in 1998 authored by the infamous Andrew Wakefield. The study was later found to be inherently flawed and fraudulent. It was retracted and repudiated by the scientific community.

Wakefield had his medical license revoked for serious professional misconduct and he’s been ostracized by medical experts.

Since then, many large scale, rigorous studies have established no causal link between vaccines and autism.

Wakefield’s study included only 12 children. This kind of sample size is unprecedentedly small—meaningless in fact—and far too small to draw any reliable conclusions.

Wakefield was also criticized for a lack of a control group in his study and was investigated for manipulating data.

He altered patients medical histories to support his claims. He had conflicts of interest, including financial interests related to payments from lawyers backing him with lawsuits, treatments linked to his claims and a vaccine he had secretly patented.

His study also involved the unethical treatment of children.

Dozens of large scale studies involving literally millions of children have since been conducted, all of them consistently pointing to the same conclusion: that vaccines do not cause autism.

**About thimerosal:**

Thimerosal is a mercury based preservative that was more commonly used in vaccines in the 20th century.

Its use only began fueling fears from anti-vaxxers in the late 90s, around the time that the widely discredited “Wakefield Study” was published

The study falsely linked MMR vaccines to autism. The MMR vaccine never contained Thimerosal, but anti-vaxxers still clung to the baseless claim that it was harming children.

Around this time, RFK Jr. was claiming publicly that Thimerosal based vaccines were linked to autism and other developmental disorders in children.

Extensive scientific research has shown there is no link between Thimerosal containing vaccines and autism/neurological disorders.

And despite this research, Thimerosal was still removed from most childhood vaccines as a precautionary measure, and not in any way due to proven harm.

Moreover, when Thimerosal was removed from vaccines, cases of childhood autism continued rising, further dispelling this dangerous myth.

Unfortunately, when the decision was made to remove or reduce the use of Thimerosal in childhood vaccines, it ended up validating the fears of a growing number of anti-vaxxers. And now decades later, these crackpots still continue to spread dangerous misinformation about Thimerosal causing neurological harm to children.

**Vaccine “skepticism” as federal policy:**

The current administration has been singlehandedly responsible for sowing distrust in medical science and experts; especially during disease outbreaks.

For instance, nearly the entire medical community disputes RFK Jr’s claim that mRNA vaccines have risks that outweigh benefits. Beyond that, rigorous studies and reliable data show that they are indeed effective and save lives, even when viruses mutate

Kennedy’s decision to end funding for mRNA technology and research is being done at the cost of scientific progress and lives.

mRNA technology was being explored to treat multiple cancers, malaria, HIV, even ***infections passed from mother to infant…***

This administration has chosen to politicize science at the expense of public health, scientific innovation, pandemic preparedness, and basic trust in medicine and the scientific community.

Future generations of Americans will also lose access to advanced, life saving treatments.

**Science has become politicized by the right**

Overwhelming scientific consensus, the latest research and data, and conclusions drawn from peer reviewed, scientific journals are challenged by conspiracy theorists and their “alternative facts.” Valid concerns and policies that address things like climate change and pandemic preparedness are blasted as radical left inventions.

MAGA denies legitimate science and insists that their ass-backwards and misanthropic views about medicine, biology, vaccines, diseases, etc, are more informed than the leading and relevant scientific research.

As head of HHS, Kennedy is largely responsible for undermining trust in the medical community and endangering public health due to his unscientific claims.

His loyalty and connection to Trump has also made him near invulnerable to scrutiny from Republicans. He is helping to carry out the Trump administration’s agenda by defunding and eroding the independence of public health related agencies; stripping qualified civil servants of their protections and replacing them with inept loyalists who are committed to reversing decades of scientific progress.

He’s also been responsible for defunding scientific and medical research while dismantling agencies and organizations that play a crucial role in maintaining public health and safety.

Not to mention his layoffs of thousands of staff working in agencies like the CDC, FDA, NIH, and CMS—top scientists and healthcare workers who are being replaced with so-called “MAHA” groupies.

We tried nothing and we’re out of ideas

No you’re wrong.

They had someone look into it and that’s wrong.

Also the HHS will no longer produce that report

Also the people that used to produce that report have been fired (out of a cannon).

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congrats to the brain worm 👏