Summary
Donald Trump’s nomination of anti-vaccine advocate David Weldon to lead the CDC has sparked celebration among anti-vaccine groups.
Weldon, a former congressman and longtime critic of vaccine safety, has promoted debunked theories linking vaccines to autism and appeared in anti-vaccine films.
His nomination raises concerns about undermining vaccine recommendations, public health messaging, and legal protections for vaccine manufacturers, potentially jeopardizing access to childhood immunizations.
Critics warn this move signals the Trump administration’s alignment with anti-vaccine ideologies, prioritizing politics over science-based public health policies.
I wish antivax idiots would just go visit a third world country. I know it won’t matter to some of them but maybe some would change their views when they see kids dying of diseases that have been eradicated in the US.
They probably won’t even need to do that if bird flu takes off, a million Americans died from COVID during the pandemic and it probably would have been 5 times greater without any vaccine or mask mandates etc. They might get to see it from a hospital parking lot
Plus bird flu has like a 50% mortality rate and we won’t even be allowed to treat it.
They have. Here’s an example of one prominent anti vaxxer visiting Samoa.
It wouldn’t.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/26/rfk-jr-samoa-visit-measles-outbreak-vaccines
Stick around, they are making this a third world country blazingly fast. Watch as the U.S. becomes our own shit-hole country.
One did
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/world/africa/rfk-jr-kennedy-international-work-public-health-policies.html
They will probably barely care even if it strikes down their own children. They will cry and say it was God’s will and overlook that it was preventable