United States drastically reduces number of recommended vaccines
The We Want Them Infected movement isn’t just for COVID anymore. As Dr. David Gorski predicted and Dr. Steven Novella discussed, our current medical establishment now wants unvaccinated children to remain vulnerable to multiple pathogens, including rotavirus, RSV, hepatitis A and hepatitis B, influenza, and meningococcal disease. Although the American vaccine schedule wasn’t an outlier previously, it is now.
Source: STAT News
This is very bad news for American children. According to one report:
Just three of the six immunizations the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it will no longer routinely recommend — against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and rotavirus — have prevented nearly 2 million hospitalizations and more than 90,000 deaths in the past 30 years, according to the CDC’s own publications.
Defining a hierarchy of vaccines by importance can help increase childhood vaccination rates.
Our medical establishment justified these radical changes not with data, evidence, or open scientific discussion, but by unilaterally imposing a new EBM pyramid where “What Denmark Does” now sits atop. Treating children’s health like an international popularity contest is obviously ridiculous, but nothing new for anti-vaxxers. Previously, they encouraged HPV infections by claiming the top of the EBM pyramid should be “What Japan Does”.
However, recently our medical establishment has been floating an even more farcical justification for their vaccine vandalism. Incredibly, they expect us to believe their true goal is to “rebuild trust” in “core, essential vaccines” and to “increase vaccine uptake among children“. Though he didn’t provide a shred of evidence, Dr. Marty Makary said that “Defining a hierarchy of vaccines by importance can help increase childhood vaccination rates.” Below are examples of Dr. Makary, as well as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and even Kennedy himself, mindlessly repeating the same dronelike talking point that they seek to protect vaccines by attacking vaccines.
This is obviously disingenuous performance art from bad-faith actors who enjoy being on camera, and it too is a recycled technique. As I discussed previously, Drs. Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Hoeg argued in 2022 that COVID vaccines were in competition with routine vaccines. According to their “logic”, if pediatricians encouraged the COVID vaccine, then vaccination rates for polio and measles would drop either due to lack of time or parental confidence.
Drs. Prasad and Hoeg made this claim when SARS-CoV-2 was the most threatening virus children faced, and they provided no evidence for it. They just made it up. In fact, vaccine rates fell in places that actively discouraged the pediatric COVID vaccine, surprising no one who knows anything about what drives vaccine hesitancy.
It was clear that Drs. Prasad and Hoeg didn’t care at all about routine vaccines. Rather, they desperately wanted unvaccinated children to contract COVID, and to further their core pandemic mission they feigned a concern about routine vaccines for a couple of months several years ago. Neither of them ever simply advocated for routine vaccines. They only “promoted” them while dunking on COVID vaccines. It was all so fake and phony.
Indeed, they both now proudly serve in an administration that is attacking routine vaccines, and along with another pro-infection disinformation doctor Martin Kulldorff, Dr. Hoeg authored the memo laying out the decimation of the vaccine schedule. However, in the current iteration of their fantasized vaccine competition, it’s not just the COVID vaccine that is said to be battling the MMR and polio vaccines.
The idea that trimming the schedule will boost vaccination rates gets the problem backwards. Hesitancy comes from distrust and misinformation, not from schedule length.
This is all so preposterous it’s hard to know where to begin. The videos above are a Gish gallop of disinformation that reveals the truth of Brandolini’s law. Let’s discuss a subset of Dr. Makary’s deluge of deceptions.
Predictably, he botched basic facts about rotavirus. In reality, it killed 20 to 70 children per year before the vaccine, not three, though 20-70 dead children is not enough for our medical establishment to care about. The flu killed 288 children last year, 89% of them not fully vaccinated, and it is killing children right now. Yet the flu vaccine is also on the chopping block and the headlines read RFK Jr. Says it May Be “Better” if Fewer Children Receive the Flu Vaccine.
Death is not the only bad outcome from any virus. Though Dr. Makary hid it from his audience, rotavirus previously caused 400,000 physician visits, 200,000 ER visits, and 55,000-70,000 hospitalizations annually. The vaccine drastically slashed that suffering. According to one study, from 2006-2017:
Vaccine introduction resulted in a median decline in rotavirus-associated hospitalizations and emergency department visits of 80% and 57%, respectively, along with indirect protection of unvaccinated age groups and a decrease in health-care costs.
Moreover, that the original rotavirus vaccine was pulled from the market after 14 months because of a rare side effect shows that vaccine harms are taken very seriously and not hidden. The anthrax vaccine was never given to American children, only to people in the military, and Dr. Makary mentioned it just to scare parents.
Additionally, there is no evidence that “COVID absolutism broke public trust.” Even though COVID mitigations ended years ago, our medical establishment will be whinging about “the masking of toddlers” for years to come. It’s a reflex for them at this point, a pitiful attempt to deflect from their own gross incompetence and hide that they deliberately spread doubt and mistrust to obtain power. It was Kennedy who promoted the movie Vaxxed 3: Authorized to Kill in 2024 after all, and he’s continued to spread such noxious lies after assuming office, saying:
There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes — it causes all the illnesses that measles itself causes, encephalitis and blindness, et cetera.
Kennedy also said that it would be better if “everybody got measles” and that “only very very sick kids should die from measles”. Dr. Makary predictably repeated his boss’s talking points, which are both false and repellent. Healthy children have died of measles under their “leadership,” and normal people also care about the fate of very very sick kids. Unfortunately, it’s not surprising that vaccination rates are falling when top government officials and doctors spread such rank disinformation.
While the source of vaccine-hesitancy is no mystery, our medical establishment’s contention that they want to save “core vaccines” by attacking other vaccines is as credible an arsonist who claims he wants to protect your house by removing smoke detectors because they interfere with fire extinguishers. It’s beyond absurd and downright offensive that they expect anyone to believe their balderdash. As infectious disease expert Dr. Jake Scott put it:
The idea that trimming the schedule will boost vaccination rates gets the problem backwards. Hesitancy comes from distrust and misinformation, not from schedule length. Removing vaccines doesn’t fix that. It just leaves kids unprotected against rotavirus, hepatitis A and B, RSV, flu, and meningococcal disease while lending credibility to the unfounded fears driving hesitancy in the first place.
He’s obviously right, and if our medical establishment genuinely wanted to “increase vaccine uptake”, they’d vigorously promote vaccines. Even though it’s really easy, they’ve refused to do so and instead are gearing up for their next attack on vaccines.
As a pediatrician, I heard from a parent just this week: “What vaccines are recommended now? I am so confused.”
While reasonable doctors have wisely announced they will ignore the new vaccine “guidance”, pediatricians on the ground are already reporting it’s having its intended effect. In his article Parents Are Confused. I’m Worried for My Pediatric Patients, Dr. David Higgins wrote:
One of the stated justifications for an overnight overhaul of the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule is to “restore” or “rebuild” trust. This refrain, echoed by HHS and CDC leadership, rests on a flawed premise: that parents will trust health professionals more if the government recommends fewer protections against preventable disease. This assumption is illogical and is already producing confusion and distrust.
As a pediatrician, I heard from a parent just this week: “What vaccines are recommended now? I am so confused.” This uncertainty is coming from families who previously made confident decisions to vaccinate. Amid fewer universally recommended vaccines and a vague emphasis on “shared clinical decision-making,” the consistent theme in parents’ concern is federal messaging that signals ambiguity without a clear explanation.
For better or worse, we won’t have to speculate about any of this. Reality will invariably assert itself, and doctors with real-world responsibility for children’s health are very worried about the future. One pediatrician said she expects “Half of my pediatric ward would be kids with rotavirus, and the other half would be kids with RSV,” and in her article Medical Schools Must Prepare Tomorrow’s Doctors for Yesterday’s Diseases, infectious disease expert Dr. Krutika Kuppalli wrote:
Recent changes to the childhood vaccine schedule by the Department of Health and Human Services — made without meaningful input from clinicians, public health experts, independent advisory bodies, or patients — will effectively reintroduce vaccine-preventable diseases into everyday clinical settings at a time when many clinicians have not been trained to recognize, manage, or counsel patients about illnesses vaccines had largely eliminated.
However perhaps our medical establishment are brilliant vaccine-advocates after all. Maybe the best way to stop measles and pertussis is to let unvaccinated children contract COVID, rotavirus, RSV, hepatitis A and B, influenza, and meningococcus. If their theory of the case is right, then we should soon see skyrocketing vaccination rates, plummeting disease rates, and empty pediatric hospitals.
Let’s grade them entirely on how well they perform on these metrics. It’s really all that matters, and they are failing thus far.
