The administration of President Donald Trump was notorious for a variety of “alternative facts,” from relatively minor (inauguration crowd) to the threat of US democracy, as a person who actually won the 2020 election.
And over the last six months, steaks have been life or death. Trump’s health authorities have supported the alternative facts to impose a policy that contradicts modern medical knowledge.
The vaccine is a miracle in preventing terrible diseases from polio to tetanus and measles. I showed them in numerous studies Do not cause autism. It is accepted in the scientific community.
But Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has no medical background or scientific training, does not believe everything. There is a result of such misrepresentation It was already fatal.
For decades, the majority of Americans are willing to get shots. According to a 2015 survey, 25%of their parents believed that measles, pandemic deeritis and rubella (MMR) vaccines could cause autism. (no way 1998 Study Despite the problem, despite the concern, only 2%of children entering the kindergarten were exempted from vaccinations against religious or philosophical opposition. The children got a shot.
Recently, however, poor government science communications and online false information suppliers cultivated the soil so that alternative facts grow like weeds. In 2024-25, the complete vaccination rate for those who entered kindergarten fell by more than 92%. In more than 12 states, the ratio was less than 90%and less than 80%in Aida. And now we have more than 1,300 measles in the United States, 1/4 years ago.
It is easy to see how pushes and full factors will accept bad science about the vaccine.
Recommended vaccine There is a balloon This century, overwhelming patients and parents. In other words, most of the clinical sciences of vaccines have been booming. And historically, the vaccine sold for Penny is now sold for hundreds of dollars and has become a great source of profits for pharmaceutical producers.
In 1986, typical children should get 11 vaccine doses, 7 injections and 4 oral lectures. Today, that number Rising 50 to 54 times by 18 years old.
Advisory Committee on vaccination practices that prevents judgment on vaccines provides scientific risks-evaluation of profits. The harm caused by the disease is larger than the risk of side effects. This does not mean that all the vaccines are equally effective, and health officials have been doing not enough to develop the public’s understanding of the facts.
Old vaccines -polio and measles are essentially 100% effective. The disease was erased from the fearful disease. Many new vaccines are recommended and useful (and often advertised), but they do not have the same emotional or medical punch.
The parents of the current generation have not experienced a painful time with a cough called measles or hundred days. My mother was not really worried about hepatitis B. In general, viruses that are transmitted through sexual intercourse or venous drugs are infected. their children.
The lack of understanding gave birth to skeptics. For example, the influenza vaccine, which has been around for decades since 2010, was recommended every year. All Americans At least 6 months. In the 2024-25 season, the flu vaccination rate is 36% and 54% of adults; The other year was lower than that. “I received a flu vaccine, but I still have the flu.”
“Pre -covid, there were people who took everything except the flu.” Lu Pali Lima YesAssociate professor of the Bloomberg School School of Johns Hopkins University who studies vaccine demand and acceptance. “Then it has become everything except Cobid. Now it is everything, including MMR and polio.”
Despite the fact that the first Trump administration’s operating warp speed helped develop covid vaccines, conservative media media Doubt I needed a picture: suspicion that MRNA technology was fully tested; Doubt that Covid-19 is bad enough to shoot; Concerns that vaccines can cause infertility or autism.
erase I couldn’t modify it This dangerous misunderstanding and obtained Boy by supporters When he said he was vaccinated. At the beginning of the vaccine order, Trump strongly opposed them by reconstructing the belief in the vaccine as a matter of personal freedom. And if the government could not mandate Kobe shots on the school, officials should not be mandatory for others.
Thus, 100 years of research that demonstrates the virtue of vaccination has fallen into a stew of alternative facts. You were a professional or half body, and it knew your politics. Suddenly, Ban Kyun crowd violated individual rights as much more conservative groups that believed that they had been forced to enter the school, not the small fringe of liberal parents.
There were people in the Trump administration who took over the trend (at least partially). MARTY MAKARY, a food pharmacy commissioner Kennedy defended the decision He pointed out that all Americans should not be a signal to stop other scenes in order to roll back the recommendation of the annual covid booster.
“In general, as the public confidence in vaccinations decreases, the reluctance to vaccinations has harmed important immune programs, such as“ measles -bramble reform -Lubola (MMR) vaccination.
Nevertheless, Makary’s president Kennedy continued. Promote bad science About the vaccine, sometimes he acknowledged his usefulness in the same case as the occurrence of measles. He has funded new research on already unbalanced links between MMR shots and autism. He stopped $ 500 million In the subsidies for developing vaccines using MRNA technology, new production methods and technical scientists used in the first cobed vaccine have a great promise to prevent death from other infectious diseases.
After practicing as a doctor for 10 years, I have never seen measles. Now there Case in 40 states. More than 150 people were hospitalized, and three were not vaccinated.
The fact is that David Scales, a doctor and sociologist of Weill Cornell Medical College, is called a “healthy information system.” It is an alternative science universe where too many Americans live. And some die.
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