FDA Opts Out of Widely Condemned Plan for “Black Box” Warnings on COVID Shots

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) top official Marty Makary announced that the agency has opted not to put “black box” warnings on coronavirus vaccines, despite reports that FDA officials were considering such a move last week. Black box warnings are considered the most serious designation from the FDA. Such warnings are placed on opioid medication, for example…
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FDA Announces COVID Vaccine Deaths Inquiry, Despite Evidence Showing Safety

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that it will investigate whether there is a link between vaccinations for coronavirus and deaths in the United States, despite mountains of evidence that COVID-19 shots are both safe and effective. “FDA is doing a thorough investigation, across multiple age groups, of deaths potentially related to coronavirus vaccines…
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Kennedy’s Hand-Picked Vaccine Panel Votes to End Hepatitis B Shots for Newborns

Recent weeks have brought good news about vaccines, with studies indicating that flu vaccination reduces heart disease, shingles vaccines can prevent or slow dementia, and a single human papillomavirus shot protects a girl from cervical cancer for the rest of her life. But in the upside-down world of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccines are on the ropes.
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South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Illustrates Danger of Vaccine Misinformation

BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. — Near the back corner of the local library’s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in early November, offering free measles vaccines to adults and children. Spartanburg County, in South Carolina’s Upstate region, has been fighting a measles outbreak since early October…
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The CDC Just Appointed an Anti-Vaxxer to the Agency’s Second-Highest Position

Ralph Abraham, a top health official in Louisiana who has peddled disinformation about vaccines, has been quietly named to a prominent position within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Abraham’s appointment was not formally announced, but his name appears on internal databases for the agency, which list him as the principal deputy director for the CDC — the agency’s…
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CDC Rewrites Vaccine-Autism Page, Echoing Kennedy’s Anti-Science Views

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has altered its webpage on vaccine safety and autism to reflect the false anti-vaccine talking points peddled by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The new language contradicts decades of evidence-based research that has found zero link between childhood vaccinations and autism.
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