RFK Jr. Says Autism Causes Will Be Revealed In September

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RFK Jr. Says Autism Causes Will Be Revealed In September

[Typhoon]

Abject nonsense.

[Doc]

Abject nonsense.

Please elaborate. The fact is something has caused a higher rate of Autism from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 37. It may simply be that the standards have been loosened to the point that it is 1 in 37. It may also be that going from a handful of vaccines to dozens of them. In most case vaccines that were not tested in Children. Either way it is not nonsense. Either it is putting unscientific labels on children or it is putting the label on vaccines that they are safe without proper testing. Given that members of the US vaccination board have direct monetary interests does not instill confidence among the public.
It has scientifically been determined via the actual results of the COVID mRNA vaccines in Japan that the more you have taken the higher the chance of you dying young are. If this is true of COVID mRNA vaccines where Big Pharma corporation made 10's of billions of dollars then it could well be true of vaccines in general.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12095670/

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JMA J. 2025 Mar 7;8(2):584–586. doi: 10.31662/jmaj.2024-0298
Significant Increase in Excess Deaths after Repeated COVID-19 Vaccination in Japan
Hideki Kakeya 1, Takeshi Nitta 2, Yukari Kamijima 3, Takayuki Miyazawa 4
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Abstract
Although Japan recorded the world’s highest rate of COVID-19 messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccination doses per capita, COVID-19 cases and deaths exploded after the emergence of the Omicron variant, followed by a significant increase in excess deaths in 2022 and 2023. Although several hypotheses have been proposed to explain these phenomena, the truth remains to be established because sufficient studies and data disclosures have not been conducted to adequately investigate the possible contribution of mRNA vaccines. The causes of the excess deaths from not only COVID-19 but also other factors after repeated mRNA vaccinations must be elucidated, given this could provide valuable information to help combat future infectious disease outbreaks.

Keywords: excess death, SARS-CoV-2, chronic infection, adverse reactions, mRNA vaccine, immunosuppression

Japan recorded one of the world’s highest rates of COVID-19 vaccination doses per capita, amounting to 3.6 doses as of March 2024 (1), behind only Cuba and Chile. Because Cuba primarily used protein subunit vaccines (2) and Chile primarily used inactivated vaccines (3), Japan has the highest per capita rate of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccination doses in the world.

Japan was regarded as one of the most successful countries in handling the early stages of the pandemic, with much lower numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths than other developed countries. After the emergence of the Omicron variant, however, the number of infections surged dramatically in Japan in 2022, despite more than 80% of the population having been fully vaccinated. Surprisingly, the number of excess deaths per million in Japan exceeded 1400 in 2023, three times higher than that in the United States, whereas COVID-19 deaths in Japan accounted for only 10% of these excess deaths (4).

Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the cause of the significant number of excess deaths in 2022 and 2023. The most popular hypothesis is COVID-19-related deaths, including 1) people who died from COVID-19 but were either not tested or did not receive positive test results and 2) people who died because of the shortage of medical resources due to the surge in COVID-19 cases. On May 8, 2023, however, Japan downgraded COVID-19 from its category as a novel influenza, which required patients with COVID-19 to be treated only at designated medical institutions, to class 5 (the same as seasonal flu), which made it easier for hospitals to treat both patients with and those without COVID-19. Despite this major policy shift, the number of excess deaths in 2023 remained as high as in 2022.

Another hypothesized cause of the excess deaths is various adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccinations. Indeed, under its relief system for injury to health with vaccination, the government has provided payouts for as many as 8432 injuries including 903 deaths after COVID-19 vaccination as of November 18, 2024 (5), numbers that are still increasing and already greatly exceed the numbers of injuries and deaths for which payments were made after all other vaccinations in the last 47 years. The aforementioned cases comprise many injuries and deaths in the young population, including the fatal case of a 14-year-old girl (6).

It is widely supported that vaccination reduced severe illness from COVID-19 in older adults in the early stages of the pandemic, but younger people with low risk of severity were also encouraged to be vaccinated to protect not only themselves but also the older population in Japan. This policy contradicts an early study showing vaccination did not reduce the viral load of infected individuals, which was uploaded to a preprint server in August 2021 but took approximately a year to be published in a journal (7).

Various adverse reactions to COVID-19 mRNA vaccination have been reported, such as myocarditis, pericarditis, blood clotting, and autoimmune diseases linked to lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) and excessive production of spike proteins generated by the mRNA. Indeed, data on excess deaths in the United Kingdom show that deaths caused by cardiovascular disease increased whereas deaths caused by respiratory disease decreased after COVID-19 vaccination (8). It is also noteworthy that deaths from cancers related to estrogen receptors, such as leukemia, breast, pancreatic, lip/oral/pharyngeal, ovarian, and uterine cancers, have also increased since the population-wide administration of mRNA vaccinations (4). The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 is known to bind to estrogen receptors (9) located in the nucleus and includes a nuclear localization signal (10), which makes it more likely to be conveyed to the nucleus.

Another hypothesis involves chronic infection caused by immunosuppression after repeated vaccination. Although adverse reactions were more severe and autoimmune diseases reported more frequently after the second vaccination than the first, they were reported much less after boosters, which can be explained by the suppression of immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Indeed, recent studies have reported an increase in spike-specific immunoglobulin G4, an immunosuppressive class of antibody, and regulatory T cells after the second and subsequent vaccinations (11), (12). This can lead to chronic infection whereby the virus remains in the intestine, for which positive test results cannot be obtained by nasal swabs. Wastewater monitoring data support this claim. This hypothesis can explain not only the high number and non-COVID-19 ratio of excess deaths but also the synchronization of the COVID-19 infection surge and non-COVID-19 excess deaths.

Former Centers for Disease Control director Robert Redfield said in an interview with former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo (13), “I believe vaccine has saved many, many people’s lives.” He continued:

“That said, the people’s lives it saved were vulnerable people. People over 60, 65, 70, 75, nursing home people. So, the benefit to them, I think, outweighs the risk.”

“The benefit to the 30-year-old firefighter, I don’t see the benefit.”

He also said:

“There’s prolonged production or impact or negative consequence from spike protein in some people that get the mRNA vaccine.”

Although the truth is yet to be established, the concerns related to the mRNA-LNP formulation evidently need to be taken seriously. Thus, it is imperative to elucidate the effects of population-wide COVID-19 vaccination. Japanese health authorities have been hesitant to provide data since being accused of data mishandling given they classified people vaccinated without recorded dates of inoculation as unvaccinated (14). On correction, it was revealed that the vaccinated were as susceptible as or even more susceptible to COVID-19 infection than were the unvaccinated (15).

Given the Japanese population’s uniquely high variation in COVID-19 vaccination numbers, with some having received zero doses and others receiving their eighth from October 2024 onward, data transparency and large-scale research on deaths, injuries, and chronic diseases after COVID-19 vaccination or infection after vaccination can provide valuable insights into the effects of repeated mRNA vaccination, which could greatly aid the world in the fight against future infectious disease outbreaks.

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Acknowledgement
The authors thank Dr. Yumi Watanabe (Niigata University, Japan) for critical readings of the manuscript and Mr. William Brooks for English proofreading the manuscript.

Author Contributions
H.K. wrote the manuscript. T.N. supervised the manuscript from an immunological point of view. Y.K. supervised the manuscript from an epidemiological point of view. T.M. supervised the manuscript from a virological point of view.

References
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Articles from JMA Journal are provided here courtesy of Japan Medical Association

[Typhoon]

I have to say that I have little interest in the American anti-vaccination cult and its misunderstanding of vaccines, in general, and mRNA vaccines, specifically.

As for your link, it's solely a hypothesis.

Observational studies are far more difficult to perform successfully than controlled experiments to due the challenge of taking all causal variables into account.
Erroneous conclusions are common.

For example, coffee is bad, is good, is bad, is good, is bad, is good, . . . ,

Factors contributing to the sharp rise in excess mortality in Japan since 2021

Also, I ignore medical claims on social media, as opinions are like hemorrhoids - sooner or later every assh*le has one.
I instead read the relevant literature.

To quote a N Am friend, "God rot Andrew Wakefield".

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[Doc]

I have to say that I have little interest in the American anti-vaccination cult and its misunderstanding of vaccines, in general, and mRNA vaccines, specifically.

As for your link, it's solely a hypothesis.

Observational studies are far more difficult to perform successfully than controlled experiments to due the challenge of taking all causal variables into account.
Erroneous conclusions are common.

It is the largest data set on COVID vaccine ever produced. And it was done in Japan not the US.

For example, coffee is good, is bad, is good, is bad, is good, . . . ,

Factors contributing to the sharp rise in excess mortality in Japan since 2021

Also, I ignore medical claims on social media, as opinions are like hemorrhoids - sooner or later every assh*le has one.
I instead read the relevant literature.

To quote a N Am friend, "God rot Andrew Wakefield".

Your article concludes with: "A shift away from urban-centric health policies and vaccine-only strategies toward multifaceted approaches aimed at strengthening herd immunity is urgently needed." My issue is the way "trust the science" was thrown around. The way politicians promised taking the vaccine would make people immune. The way IN THE US. the vaccine compensation fund was chanced via a law that was mean to apply to the DOD that limited compensation to lost wages and nothing else. The way the politicians said "if you get the vaccine you can't infect others." Another lie. As someone that studied the history of Science and technology is my opinion that none of what was said is actually based on science NONE OF IT.

[Doc]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cov ... 00071.html

COVID wave washes over California. Some officials urge residents to mask up
Rong-Gong Lin II
Wed, September 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT
7 min read
COVID wave washes over California. Some officials urge residents to mask up
Rong-Gong Lin II
Wed, September 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT
7 min read


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Members of the immigrant community wear N95 face masks as they join a community vigil to defend immigrant rights outside the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Jan. 2025 photo of people wearing N95 face masks as they join a community vigil outside the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press)
A COVID wave is washing over California, with the state seeing continued increases in the number of newly confirmed cases and hospitalizations as some officials urged the public to take greater precautions.

The extent of the recent increases has prompted some county-level health officials to recommend that residents once again consider wearing masks in indoor public settings, at least until transmission has declined.

California currently has "high" coronavirus levels in sewage, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And increases are being seen across the Golden State, from Los Angeles County to the San Francisco Bay Area to areas around the state capital.

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The CDC estimates that coronavirus infections are either "growing" or "likely growing" in 30 states, including California. Twenty-one states have either “very high” or "high" viral levels in wastewater. Of all regions of the U.S., the West has the highest levels of coronavirus in wastewater, followed by the South.

Read more: Can I still get a COVID shot? What you need to know after a confounding week

"California is experiencing a summer COVID wave," said Dr. Aimee Sisson, the health officer in Yolo County, just west of Sacramento.

The rate at which coronavirus lab tests are coming back positive also continues to climb. For the week that ended Aug. 23, 12.07% of tests across the state came back positive, up from a rate of 6.03% for the week that ended July 26.

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Similar leaps in rates were seen in L.A. County, where the positive test rate was 13.44%, up from 8.11% four weeks earlier; in Orange County, it was 18.1%, up from 9.4%; and in San Francisco, it was 8.7%, up from 7.1%.

Dr. Elizabeth Hudson, the regional chief of infectious diseases at Kaiser Permanente Southern California, said she received many calls related to outpatient cases of COVID-19 while on call over the Labor Day weekend.

"We are definitely seeing an upswing in patients with COVID," Hudson said. "Thankfully, inpatient cases are few and far between. Wastewater levels, however, are still rising in Los Angeles, so we have not reached the top of this current wave."

Read more: Why COVID keeps roaring back every summer, even as pandemic fades from public view

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Overall, this summer hasn't seen COVID activity to the extent of a year ago, when the state experienced its worst summer wave since 2022.

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"We will have to see what direction things go over the next one to two weeks to have a better idea" of where we end up, Hudson said. Students returning to school as well as from travel and socialization over the holiday weekend, could fuel further spread of the virus, she said.

Across California, the overall level of COVID hospital admissions remains "low," but is increasing.

For the week that ended Aug. 23, there were 3.62 hospital admissions for COVID for every 100,000 residents; up from a comparable rate of 1.9 four weeks earlier. The most recent rate is also higher than during the peak seen during the winter, which maxed out at 2.61 admissions for every 100,000 residents.

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Read more: COVID rising fast in California, fueled by new 'Stratus' variant tied to Omicron

Emergency department visits for COVID-like illness are also up in Los Angeles, Orange and Santa Clara counties. In L.A. County, 2.8% of emergency room visits were for illnesses such as fever plus a cough or sore throat, up from 2.2% four weeks earlier. In Orange County, 2.6% of ER visits were for COVID-like illness, up from 1.5%.

"The current percent of COVID-19 positivity is higher than at any point last winter," according to Dr. Christopher Zimmerman of the Orange County Health Care Agency’s Communicable Disease Control Division and Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong, the county’s health officer.

As of Aug. 23, 1.9% of total hospitalizations in Orange County were due to COVID — higher than at any point seen during the winter, but less than half of last summer's peak of 4%.

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However, it's unclear "how high or how severe this summer's COVID wave may be," Zimmerman and Chinsio-Kwong said, noting that this year's rise began later than it did in 2024.

In Los Angeles County, COVID-19 hospitalizations are currently about as high as last winter's peak, but remain lower than the peaks of the last two summers, according to the L.A. County Department of Public Health.

Read more: The FDA overhauled its COVID vaccine guidance. Here's what it means for you

Sisson said that coronavirus levels are high in the wastewater of both Sacramento and West Sacramento, one of the most populous cities in Yolo County. Sisson recommended that everyone age 2 and up in West Sacramento "wear a mask when they are around others in indoor public spaces," since coronavirus levels in sewage there are high.

Advertisement
For other areas of Yolo County, including UC Davis and Woodland, where viral levels in wastewater are considered "medium," Sisson said she recommends that people wear masks around others indoors "if they are 65 or older, have a weakened immune system, have an underlying medical condition that puts them at a greater risk of severe COVID-19, or spend time around people who fall into these categories.”

"Wearing a high-quality mask such as an N95, KN95, or KF94 that fits well continues to provide strong protection," Sisson said.

Coronavirus cases are increasing in Sacramento County, and coronavirus wastewater levels are considered high, according to Casey Camacho, a spokesperson for the Sacramento County Department of Health Services.

Read more: U.S. pediatricians' new COVID-19 vaccine recommendations differ from CDC advice

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The San Francisco Department of Public Health also is encouraging people "to consider wearing a well-fitted mask in crowded indoor spaces, including when traveling, and to stay at home if they feel sick." Coronavirus levels in San Francisco wastewater, and COVID hospitalizations, are up this summer "but remain below last summer's peaks."

In Santa Clara County, Northern California's most populous county, COVID-related hospitalizations are up, and coronavirus levels are "high" in the sewershed of San José and Palo Alto. Current viral levels in wastewater are now similar to the levels seen in the summer of 2023, but haven't reached last summer's peak. COVID hospitalization rates also remain lower than recent summer seasons, public health officials said.

The updated 2025-26 version of the COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be available within a few days at some of the nation's pharmacy retailers, such as Walgreens and CVS. But some people are expressing frustration at new rules issued by the Trump administration that in effect require younger, healthy people under age 65 who don't say they have an underlying health condition to consult with a healthcare provider to get a COVID vaccination in the fall.

"Vaccination remains one of the most effective ways to prevent severe disease and death from COVID-19," Sisson said.

Advertisement
Read more: RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development

The requirement came under criticism by Dr. Jerome Adams, a former surgeon general who served under the first Trump administration. In posts on social media, Adams said requiring people to consult with a healthcare provider before getting a COVID vaccine puts up "real access barriers."

"Even if you have insurance and can get in to see a doctor (which is no small feat in the U.S.), many doctors are going to be reticent to prescribe a medication 'off label,' given the (in many cases unfounded) recent rhetoric from HHS leaders," Adams wrote, referring to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is led by the vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy, who has a history of disparaging vaccines, has said he wants more studies on the COVID-19 shots. Other health experts have said seeking additional testing for COVID vaccines is unnecessary, given the extensive testing done before they were first distributed, and their track record since.

Advertisement
"The bottom line? It is both statistically (according to HHS’s own data) and pragmatically untrue that '100% of those who choose a Covid vaccine can get one.' Continuing to repeat this reflects a lack of knowledge, empathy, or honesty," Adams wrote.
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Members of the immigrant community wear N95 face masks as they join a community vigil to defend immigrant rights outside the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Jan. 2025 photo of people wearing N95 face masks as they join a community vigil outside the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press)
A COVID wave is washing over California, with the state seeing continued increases in the number of newly confirmed cases and hospitalizations as some officials urged the public to take greater precautions.

The extent of the recent increases has prompted some county-level health officials to recommend that residents once again consider wearing masks in indoor public settings, at least until transmission has declined.

California currently has "high" coronavirus levels in sewage, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And increases are being seen across the Golden State, from Los Angeles County to the San Francisco Bay Area to areas around the state capital.

Advertisement
The CDC estimates that coronavirus infections are either "growing" or "likely growing" in 30 states, including California. Twenty-one states have either “very high” or "high" viral levels in wastewater. Of all regions of the U.S., the West has the highest levels of coronavirus in wastewater, followed by the South.

Read more: Can I still get a COVID shot? What you need to know after a confounding week

"California is experiencing a summer COVID wave," said Dr. Aimee Sisson, the health officer in Yolo County, just west of Sacramento.

The rate at which coronavirus lab tests are coming back positive also continues to climb. For the week that ended Aug. 23, 12.07% of tests across the state came back positive, up from a rate of 6.03% for the week that ended July 26.

Advertisement
Similar leaps in rates were seen in L.A. County, where the positive test rate was 13.44%, up from 8.11% four weeks earlier; in Orange County, it was 18.1%, up from 9.4%; and in San Francisco, it was 8.7%, up from 7.1%.

Dr. Elizabeth Hudson, the regional chief of infectious diseases at Kaiser Permanente Southern California, said she received many calls related to outpatient cases of COVID-19 while on call over the Labor Day weekend.

"We are definitely seeing an upswing in patients with COVID," Hudson said. "Thankfully, inpatient cases are few and far between. Wastewater levels, however, are still rising in Los Angeles, so we have not reached the top of this current wave."

Read more: Why COVID keeps roaring back every summer, even as pandemic fades from public view

Advertisement
Overall, this summer hasn't seen COVID activity to the extent of a year ago, when the state experienced its worst summer wave since 2022.

More in U.S.

Police Video Shows Epstein Lair’s Nude Photos and Mysterious Clues

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The suspect in the fatal ‘ding dong ditch’ shooting of an 11-year-old boy is a US Army vet. Here’s what we know

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415
"We will have to see what direction things go over the next one to two weeks to have a better idea" of where we end up, Hudson said. Students returning to school as well as from travel and socialization over the holiday weekend, could fuel further spread of the virus, she said.

Across California, the overall level of COVID hospital admissions remains "low," but is increasing.

For the week that ended Aug. 23, there were 3.62 hospital admissions for COVID for every 100,000 residents; up from a comparable rate of 1.9 four weeks earlier. The most recent rate is also higher than during the peak seen during the winter, which maxed out at 2.61 admissions for every 100,000 residents.

Advertisement
Read more: COVID rising fast in California, fueled by new 'Stratus' variant tied to Omicron

Emergency department visits for COVID-like illness are also up in Los Angeles, Orange and Santa Clara counties. In L.A. County, 2.8% of emergency room visits were for illnesses such as fever plus a cough or sore throat, up from 2.2% four weeks earlier. In Orange County, 2.6% of ER visits were for COVID-like illness, up from 1.5%.

"The current percent of COVID-19 positivity is higher than at any point last winter," according to Dr. Christopher Zimmerman of the Orange County Health Care Agency’s Communicable Disease Control Division and Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong, the county’s health officer.

As of Aug. 23, 1.9% of total hospitalizations in Orange County were due to COVID — higher than at any point seen during the winter, but less than half of last summer's peak of 4%.

Advertisement
However, it's unclear "how high or how severe this summer's COVID wave may be," Zimmerman and Chinsio-Kwong said, noting that this year's rise began later than it did in 2024.

In Los Angeles County, COVID-19 hospitalizations are currently about as high as last winter's peak, but remain lower than the peaks of the last two summers, according to the L.A. County Department of Public Health.

Read more: The FDA overhauled its COVID vaccine guidance. Here's what it means for you

Sisson said that coronavirus levels are high in the wastewater of both Sacramento and West Sacramento, one of the most populous cities in Yolo County. Sisson recommended that everyone age 2 and up in West Sacramento "wear a mask when they are around others in indoor public spaces," since coronavirus levels in sewage there are high.

Advertisement
For other areas of Yolo County, including UC Davis and Woodland, where viral levels in wastewater are considered "medium," Sisson said she recommends that people wear masks around others indoors "if they are 65 or older, have a weakened immune system, have an underlying medical condition that puts them at a greater risk of severe COVID-19, or spend time around people who fall into these categories.”

"Wearing a high-quality mask such as an N95, KN95, or KF94 that fits well continues to provide strong protection," Sisson said.

Coronavirus cases are increasing in Sacramento County, and coronavirus wastewater levels are considered high, according to Casey Camacho, a spokesperson for the Sacramento County Department of Health Services.

Read more: U.S. pediatricians' new COVID-19 vaccine recommendations differ from CDC advice

Advertisement
The San Francisco Department of Public Health also is encouraging people "to consider wearing a well-fitted mask in crowded indoor spaces, including when traveling, and to stay at home if they feel sick." Coronavirus levels in San Francisco wastewater, and COVID hospitalizations, are up this summer "but remain below last summer's peaks."

In Santa Clara County, Northern California's most populous county, COVID-related hospitalizations are up, and coronavirus levels are "high" in the sewershed of San José and Palo Alto. Current viral levels in wastewater are now similar to the levels seen in the summer of 2023, but haven't reached last summer's peak. COVID hospitalization rates also remain lower than recent summer seasons, public health officials said.

The updated 2025-26 version of the COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be available within a few days at some of the nation's pharmacy retailers, such as Walgreens and CVS. But some people are expressing frustration at new rules issued by the Trump administration that in effect require younger, healthy people under age 65 who don't say they have an underlying health condition to consult with a healthcare provider to get a COVID vaccination in the fall.

"Vaccination remains one of the most effective ways to prevent severe disease and death from COVID-19," Sisson said.

Advertisement
Read more: RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development

The requirement came under criticism by Dr. Jerome Adams, a former surgeon general who served under the first Trump administration. In posts on social media, Adams said requiring people to consult with a healthcare provider before getting a COVID vaccine puts up "real access barriers."

"Even if you have insurance and can get in to see a doctor (which is no small feat in the U.S.), many doctors are going to be reticent to prescribe a medication 'off label,' given the (in many cases unfounded) recent rhetoric from HHS leaders," Adams wrote, referring to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is led by the vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy, who has a history of disparaging vaccines, has said he wants more studies on the COVID-19 shots. Other health experts have said seeking additional testing for COVID vaccines is unnecessary, given the extensive testing done before they were first distributed, and their track record since.

Advertisement
"The bottom line? It is both statistically (according to HHS’s own data) and pragmatically untrue that '100% of those who choose a Covid vaccine can get one.' Continuing to repeat this reflects a lack of knowledge, empathy, or honesty," Adams wrote.

[Typhoon]

I have to say that I have little interest in the American anti-vaccination cult and its misunderstanding of vaccines, in general, and mRNA vaccines, specifically.

As for your link, it's solely a hypothesis.

Observational studies are far more difficult to perform successfully than controlled experiments to due the challenge of taking all causal variables into account.
Erroneous conclusions are common.

It is the largest data set on COVID vaccine ever produced. And it was done in Japan not the US.

For example, coffee is good, is bad, is good, is bad, is good, . . . ,

Factors contributing to the sharp rise in excess mortality in Japan since 2021

Also, I ignore medical claims on social media, as opinions are like hemorrhoids - sooner or later every assh*le has one.
I instead read the relevant literature.

To quote a N Am friend, "God rot Andrew Wakefield".

Your article concludes with: "A shift away from urban-centric health policies and vaccine-only strategies toward multifaceted approaches aimed at strengthening herd immunity is urgently needed." My issue is the way "trust the science" was thrown around. The way politicians promised taking the vaccine would make people immune. The way IN THE US. the vaccine compensation fund was chanced via a law that was mean to apply to the DOD that limited compensation to lost wages and nothing else. The way the politicians said "if you get the vaccine you can't infect others." Another lie. As someone that studied the history of Science and technology is my opinion that none of what was said is actually based on science NONE OF IT.

Well, that's your opinion and you're welcome to it

[Typhoon]

SBM | Tylenol and Autism

[Doc]

SBM | Tylenol and Autism

For what it is worth. Suppressed, 10 year, 18,000 child unpublished study, finds significant negative side effects of child vaccines: Including 100% of children that have ADHD are vaccinated.

'It's corruption of science, not truth': Aaron Siri exposes WHO's 'vaccines saved 154M lives' claim

[Parodite]

In the causal framework, every effect also becomes a cause. High probability if thou asketh me: autism causes a loads of trouble.

I kinda gave up on all the maybe probably on the other hand science: much less severe headaches, better blood pressure and so on. Will retire in France, a farmhouse, some land. Not completely off the grid but almost.

[Doc]

In the causal framework, every effect also becomes a cause. High probability if thou asketh me: autism causes a loads of trouble.

I kinda gave up on all the maybe probably on the other hand science: much less severe headaches, better blood pressure and so on. Will retire in France, a farmhouse, some land. Not completely off the grid but almost.

Sounds good to me. Though I am still alternately looking at buying a motorcycle to ride off into the Sunset on.


I can't believe this really happened.

[noddy]

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[Doc]

Capitalist meritocracy with high immigration , combined with a society that doesnt beleive in society has created a situation that you are either a productive little wage slave for the corporate /governement, or you need a medical certificate for "why" you cant do that.

its always been that simple, all the rest is babble.

plus a sprinkle of middle class dystopia, pathologising anyone who cant keep up with the current wage slave requirement of the week.

mums are wanting a certificate to escape that aswell.

the mums, if they are mums at al, and most generally work for government here where they get paid about 50% or more inn total compensation than in the private sector
PLus given that the majority of their certs are non stem add another 50% on that above what they would otherwise get paid. ANd have you noticed, if you have been paying attention that 80% of the people celebrating Charlie Kirk's death are women?



Seem highly significant given Charlie Kirk first and for most was a good father and husband

[Typhoon]

In the causal framework, every effect also becomes a cause. High probability if thou asketh me: autism causes a loads of trouble.

I kinda gave up on all the maybe probably on the other hand science: much less severe headaches, better blood pressure and so on. Will retire in France, a farmhouse, some land. Not completely off the grid but almost.

Sounds good to me. Though I am still alternately looking at buying a motorcycle to ride off into the Sunset on.


I can't believe this really happened.

The field of fundamental, a.k.a. high energy particle physics [HEP] is in a certain sense a victim of its own success.

The predictions of the remaining bits of the Standard Model [SM] have been experimentally verified: the top quark and the Higgs boson. The SM is a remarkable achievement. Yet there are some 27 parameters [particle masses, force couplings, etc.] that have to be put in by hand, i.e., empirical experimental measurement.

The known open questions in the field are proving very difficult for experimentalists. For example, decades of searching for direct detection for dark matter [WIMPS, axions, etc.] have turned up nothing. Then there's the mysteries of dark energy, neutrino oscillations, and CP violation.

In light of this reality, Physical Review D has recently switched from HEP to emphasizing astrophysics, a field which does have a lot of new experimental results.

Experimental searches for other physics "beyond the Standard Model" have also yielded nothing to-date. So theorists don't have any experimental data to guide them and have turned to speculation dividing into cult-like camps. One has to belong to a particular camp for advancement.

On the other hand, other fields of physics are doing very well, fields such as condensed matter, optics, and quantum mechanics, to name a few.

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Back on topic, I don't care about Yt video claims about medicine [or culture or politics or . . .].
Too much misinformation noise.

I can go to the PubMed site and read the original papers for myself. After checking that the journal in which a particular paper was published is a not a so-called predatory journal leading to a bogus claim of having been "peer-reviewed".

Anyways to sum up the acetaminophen so-called controversy.

The Tylenol–Autism Pseudoscience Pipeline