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Ethiopia began systematic immunization in 1980. Researcher Tariku Nigatu claims that the country has made significant strides toward raising vaccination coverage. The basic vaccination coverage increased from 14.3% to 44.1% between 2000 and 2019. By 2025, vaccine coverage is predicted to be 53.6%, which means there will be a big difference between the actual aim […]
Ever since longtime antivaccine activist, supporter of “natural health” quackery, and fear mongered about food ingredients Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his quixotic Presidential campaign and bent the knee to Donald Trump in exchange for a high-ranking health-related position in the Trump administration, should Trump win, I’ve been trying to warn my readers what it […]
If he is confirmed as H.H.S. secretary, the longtime vaccine critic would be in a position to change the government’s immunization recommendations and delay the development of new vaccines. Source link
Article content British Columbians travelling to tropical and subtropical regions now have access to a new vaccine following Health Canada’s approval of IXCHIQ, the world’s first vaccine for the Chikungunya virus. Developed by French biotech company Valneva, the vaccine is available at select pharmacies and travel clinics, making the province the second in Canada to […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he would nominate former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It’s the fulfillment of an implied promise that Trump made at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York in late October, where he said he […]
WASHINGTON—If you missed the early fall push for flu and Covid-19 vaccines, it’s not too late. Health officials say it’s important to get vaccinated ahead of the holidays, when respiratory bugs tend to spread with travel and indoor celebrations. Those viruses haven’t caused much trouble so far this fall. But Covid-19 tends to jump in the winter […]
Last week, the day before the election, I described Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who in return for abandoning his quixotic and bizarre campaign for the Presidency as an independent to bend the knee and swear everlasting fealty to former President Donald Trump had been promised control over the entire federal health policy apparatus, as an […]
Prelude: A shift in the political center of gravity of antivax and quackery It’s the day before the 2024 election, and, contemplating what to write today, I realized that there was really only one topic that I could address. I’ve said many times that this blog strives to be nonpartisan but not apolitical. After all, […]
Kennedy’s past makes him an unlikely candidate for agriculture secretary, according to Daniel Glickman, who served in the role during Bill Clinton’s presidency. “It’s hard for me to imagine, given Trump’s traditional base in the heartlands, that he would pick somebody who was an advocate for breaking up large farms and breaking consolidated agriculture,” says […]
As hard as it is to believe, I’ve been writing about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for nearly two decades. It all began in 2005 when RFK Jr. first “outed” himself as an antivaxxer by writing a conspiracy-laden “exposé” of the CDC falsely claiming that it was covering up evidence that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal had […]