The polio and smallpox vaccines were miracles.
But with the politicization of the Covid vaccine, the CDC has done irreputable harm.
Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins University slammed the CDC advisory panel that voted to add coronavirus vaccines to the child immunization schedule, asserting that the public’s skepticism could lead them to reject inoculating children against measles, mumps, rubella and polio.
“This decision by the CDC, doc, is not binding, though as we saw during the pandemic, there were a lot of states that were very quick to adopt CDC recommendations,” Fox News host John Roberts began by pointing out.
“We saw the same thing with school policy; the CDC argued they didn’t close schools, they just sent out the guidance, but of course local authorities will often blindly follow whatever the CDC does, and if the CDC us truly putting this on the vaccination schedule, as they just voted to do, this will be the first-ever vaccine where there’s no evidence to show a reduction in disease in the community,” Makary responded.
Then he segued to the possible impact on other vaccines.“So that’s not a very good milestone; it threatens the credibility of MMR and polio and many of the other vaccines for which it’s taken 50 years to build public trust,” he said.
Roberts cited UCSF Professor Dr. Vinay Prasad’s warning before the vote by the advisory panel.
“It will be a catastrophic error if they add it. They will do more in a single day to erode routine vaccination than 25 years of a devoted, irrational movement. You have to have perspective as a scientist. MMR shots are more important than covid-19 shots for kids. Incompetence,” he tweeted.
Vinay Prasad MD MPH on Twitter: “It will be a catastrophic error if they add it. They will do more in a single day to erode routine vaccination than 25 years of a devoted, irrational movement. You have to have perspective as a scientist. MMR shots are more important than covid-19 shots for kids. Incompetence https://t.co/SpF79cL1a1 / Twitter”
It will be a catastrophic error if they add it. They will do more in a single day to erode routine vaccination than 25 years of a devoted, irrational movement. You have to have perspective as a scientist. MMR shots are more important than covid-19 shots for kids. Incompetence https://t.co/SpF79cL1a1