Doctors who care for children’s brains know this: Childhood vaccines save lives. They significantly reduce serious illness and death in children and help protect entire communities. 🔗 Read our full statement: https://ow.ly/qU4O50XSeSm
End Wokeness, who made a false accusation by “just asking questions”, is purportedly Jack Posobiec. Jack had ~60k followers during Pizzagate. How many millions does he have on his main acct now? How many times has he lied since?
Keeping score requires shame to work as a moderating norm.
I agree with Dr Christy. There are definitely distinguishing features but also some overlap features. With a good history, exam, labs & imaging from onset and comparing to 6 months later, most of the time you'd be able to determine the most likely diagnosis
Things pediatricians are scared of:
Grapes
Hot dogs
Lawn mowers
Unmounted TVs
Babies on laps in cars
Riders without helmets
Ungated pools
Crib bumpers
Trampolines
Hot tubs
Guns
Things pediatricians are not scared of:
Any/all the vaccines
Glad the UK has come around to this. The US has seen a dramatic decrease in mortality related to chickenpox since vaccination began in 1995.
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RFK Jr. will likely be called to testify before Senator Cassidy's HELP committee on May 14th.
New: HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t take away childhood vaccines.
Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids.
Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak.
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"They were small and could not hope for help. And no help came." W.H. Auden
Marks was also instrumental in bringing together Operation Warp Speed that enabled COVID vaccines to be produced <1 yr after the pandemic. These vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide. He was forced out of his longstanding role spanning three administrations because of RFK.
This leap forward has changed neurology & all of healthcare. If it wasn't for the SMA gene therapy trials and Dr Mark's approval, we would not be developing gene therapies for hundreds of diseases now. The next breakthrough could be for a disease that affects someone you love. 2/
Huge loss. Peter Marks' approvals for gene therapy led to a revolution in medicine. Children with a terrible disease called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) used to die of respiratory failure early in life before they could walk. Now these kids live, breathe, & most walk. 1/
Parents of the child who died of measles have joined RFK-founded Children's Health Defense. Anti-vaccine groups excel at swooping in for tragedy, offering parents a cause.
“Don’t do the shots,” her mother said, measles is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.”
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Sort of bleakly funny that RFK of all people is rumored to have said Weldon “wasn’t ready” www.axios.com/2025/03/13/w...
About Weldon: he wasn't just an anti-vaxx sympathizer—he was an important ally to the movement before Kennedy. The most interesting is how he helped anti-vaxx researchers access CDC vaccine data—a move that provided some of the earliest (and sloppiest) anti-vaxx science.
No one:
Dave Weldon: The story of me being pushed out of CDC begins with my deep affinity for Andrew Wakefield.
Remembering a lot of people saying stuff like “I don’t agree with RFK Jr. on everything but at least he’s going to do something about the food that’s making us sick”
lol this could’ve been copy from a Vaccinate California social media post circa 2015, following the Disneyland measles outbreak, when this pest of a man showed up in CA to rail ab how MMR was causing autism.
Welcome to the team, Bobby!
The antivaxxers must be losing their minds. “THEY” got to him!
1. #CDC was finally allowed to issue a statement on the Texas #measles outbreak, though it wasn't sent to the press distribution list or posted on its homepage. They tweeted it in the other place at 8:29 pm EST.
Communication by whisper. www.cdc.gov/media/releas...
An unvaccinated NJ traveler who returned to the US infected with #measles went to 3 health facilities earlier this month seeking care before being diagnosed. Not surprisingly, additional cases are now being detected.
Measles will spread if we give it the chance. www.nj.com/healthfit/20...
In contrast to RFK's nonexistent response, his antivaccine nonprofit has claimed that measles is healthy & the vaccine caused this outbreak, despite the overwhelming # of unvaccinated kids that have been infected & genotyping showing the outbreak is caused by a wild type virus
As Texas measles outbreak grows, parents are choosing to vaccinate kids www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com @erikaedwards.bsky.social
On the morning of the first reported measles death in a decade, HHS Secretary Kennedy-founded anti-vaccine org Children's Health Defense hosts disgraced scientist Andrew Wakefield. He's urging parents to let their kids catch measles "naturally."
The Texas measles outbreak has reported its first death.
This was completely avoidable and it is infuriating that we choose to allow this disease to persist.
After the first measles death of a child HHS Secretary Kennedy seemed to downplay the Texas outbreak saying outbreaks were "not unusual," and the 18 kids hospitalized were "mainly for quarantine." A pediatrician on the ground said they couldn't breathe. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Texas DOH confirms genomic testing shows no vaccine strain in its collected measles samples. Measles vaccine shedding is an antivaccine lie that has been used for years. The measles vaccine does not cause measles outbreaks. It stops them.
Update for the purveyors of this most recent conspiracy theory: Texas DOH confirms genomic testing shows no vaccine strain in its collected measles samples. www.nbcnews.com/news/texas-m...
If you don't follow @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social, you should. She has been covering the antivaccine movement for years and has seen this all before.
1st: vaccines work
2nd: social media companies developed their OG vaccine policies in response to *outbreaks like this* in Samoa & Bklyn. Not COVID! They boosted good info. They labeled false claims.
That got redefined as “censorship” by ppl who profit from lies.
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NEW: RFK Jr. said a new study linked vaccines to autism in his confirmation hearing. We found that the study's author had a hard time getting it published.
Then he got help from Andrew Wakefield, who is famous for the first debunked study linking the the two.
GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
