Midwest Chick's Place

From the headlines, you’d think it was the end of the world to narrow down the recommended childhood vaccine schedule to the common sense ones that are in line with other comparable countries.

Here’s a quote chock full of irony:

“The best case scenario is that nothing will change,” Cleveland public health director Dr. David Margolius told NBC News. “The worst case scenario is that this causes more confusion, more distrust, lower vaccination rates, and then just this trend of political parties and ideologies determining which vaccines people should get.”

Because the government ‘recommendations’ were given the force of law which caused the confusion and distrust of the existing schedule based on ideologies… Do these people lack self-reflection?

As a note, all of the present vaccines are still on the list, they’ve just been re-categorized. For example:

The CDC will continue to recommend that all children are vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (whooping cough), Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), Pneumococcal conjugate, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and human papillomavirus (HPV), for which there is international consensus, as well as varicella (chickenpox).

But these others have been put in a different category–shots for children at high risk and/or can get them if the parents think they are important.

The immunizations recommended for certain high-risk groups or populations are for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue, meningococcal ACWY, and meningococcal B.

The immunizations based on shared clinical decision-making are for rotavirus, COVID-19, influenza, meningococcal disease, hepatitis A, and hepatitis B.

Insurance companies are still required to cover all of them. The biggest change will be how these fall through to state governments and schools, who generally have written into their rules and regs CDC recommendations.

The US was way over-vaccinating children and actually looking at the schedule in other countries as well as continuing to re-look at the shots already in play by requiring actual placebo-based testing (in lieu of using other active shots as a ‘placebo’) is, IMO, long overdue.

Giving people the choice as to what goes in their bodies as well as the bodies of their children shouldn’t be a question. We found that out during the covid time. It’s about time that government get on board.

ht: B