Vaccination, Choice, Public Health Options 6

What a Trump-empowered RFK Jr. Could do on health care
Caitlin Owens | 3 Nov 2024
www.axios.com/2024/11/03/rfk--trump-health-care-vaccines-pharmaceuticals

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Could Destroy One of Civilization’s Best Achievements
Zeynep Tufekci* | Nov. 16, 2024

Gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/rfk-jr-health-secretary-trump.html?un...

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>2 margd: I'm sure he will and with the total censorship we will soon see come to pass when the next pandemic hits and kills lots of Americans it will just be Fox news and its look/sound alike outlets/newspapers and you won't hear a thing about it.

In one spot in US, Akwesasne on the St Lawrence R, fluoride WAS industrial waste from aluminum processing, and the people who consumed it DID suffer from dental fluorosis (= mottling of teeth). I read somewhere of skeletal fluorosis in tiny earbones, but not much. I suspect that other than possibly with pregnant women, more bang from IQ buck to get Pb out of drinking water?

Does Fluoride Cause Cancer, IQ Loss, and More? Fact-Checking RFK Jr.'s Claims
— Trump's pick to lead HHS has called the mineral "industrial waste"
Samantha Putterman, PolitiFact | November 18, 2024

https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/generalpediatrics/112978

Difficult to watch ... Apparently, 96% of all whooping cough deaths occur in infants.

Infant girl with whooping cough (2:23)
Mayo Clinic | Oct 7, 2013

Mother holding infant girl in Intensive Care Unit. The baby has pertussis (whooping cough) and is coughing severely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZrMGDMMw

Isaac Bogoch @BogochIsaac | 7:37 AM · Nov 25, 2024:
Infectious Diseases physician and scientist, with thoughts on Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, HIV Prevention, Public Health, and Global Health issues. {Toronto}

A good read on how Rwanda tackled their Marburg virus outbreak:
"What happened in Rwanda is captured by Louis Pasteur’s famous aphorism that 'chance favours the prepared mind' or, as in this instance, the prepared response system."

Crucial lessons for global health in Rwanda’s rapid response to Marburg outbreak
Wilmot James, Jeanine Condo, Bentley Holt, Edson Rwagasore, Craig Spencer and Anne Wang | 22 Nov 2024
https://tinyurl.com/8aavau7j https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-11-22-crucial-lessons-for-global-he...

Why We Vaccinate
Amidst shifting political winds, we consider seven once common, now preventable diseases.
Michelle Gamage | 24 Dec 2024

...A landmark study published in The Lancet this spring calculated global vaccination efforts targeting 14 pathogens since 1974 had averted 154 million deaths due to disease and decreased global infant mortality by 40 percent.

... seven diseases that used to be commonplace but, thanks to vaccines, are mostly out of sight, out of mind in Canada.
Pertussis, or whooping cough
Measles (rubeola)
Mumps
Rubella
Diphtheria
Tetanus
Polio

... The odds of having adverse effects caused by a vaccine are between one in 100,000 and one in one million, {Dr. Jason Wong, chief medical officer at the BC Centre for Disease Control} said.

“That’s not quite at the level of the chance of being struck by lightning, but it’s in the ballpark of the chance of being struck by lightning,” Wong said ...

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/12/24/Why-We-Vaccinate/
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Andrew J Shattock et al. 2024. Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization. The Lancet Volume 403, Issue 10441 p2307-2316 May 25, 2024. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00850-X/fullt... OPEN ACCESS