All posts tagged "Anti-Vax"

Anti-abortion protesters who travelled to Washington, D.C. for the March for Life ended up at a measles super spreader-event, according to health officials.

Thousands of pro-lifers came for the Jan. 23 march and concert at the National Mall and now the D.C. Department of Health has reported multiple cases of the potentially fatal disease reported in the weeks after, The New Republic reported.

"The march is a big event for religious conservatives, this year attracting politicians such as Vice President JD Vance, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Republican Representative Chris Smith," according to The New Republic. "Many on the right oppose vaccination, with some citing religious reasons, making the march a possible hotbed of measles infections." ...

When Heather Simpson decided she wanted to become a mother, she began researching healthy lifestyle choices to increase her chances of becoming pregnant.

As she researched, she kept coming across ads for a docuseries called The Truth about Vaccines, so she and her then-husband paid $200 to access the nine-hour series.

“We were hooked,” said Simpson, from Dallas, now mother to an eight-year-old daughter....

Long before “crunchy” moms championed the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Erica Roach found a Facebook group of women who homeschooled their kids and embraced wellness.

As some moms today who seek more natural lifestyles for their families are also anti-vaccine, so were some of Roach’s Facebook friends.

By the time her fourth child was born, Roach said, she was “pretty anti-vax,” declining vaccines in her baby’s first year after initial shots at the hospital. ...

Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reduced a key government immunizations committee to a “talk show” by inviting a presentation from a leading anti-vaccine campaigner, a former senior government physician said.

Dr. Fiona Havers also said her prediction on resigning last month as a senior adviser on vaccine policy at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that Americans would die as a result of Kennedy’s actions, was coming true.

In June, Kennedy fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP. Last week, the new members held a public meeting....

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" campaign is being criticized for using "misleading" information in its official report on children's health.

In "MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again" released Thursday, the White House "blamed exposure to environmental toxins, poor nutrition and increased screen time for a decline in Americans’ life expectancy" and declared, “today’s children are the sickest generation in American history in terms of chronic disease," according to The Washington Post.

The MAHA report also "casts doubt on the current vaccine schedule and medications deemed safe by most in mainstream medicine," the Post said, adding that "several sections of the report offer misleading representations of findings in scientific papers."...