Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related

3601 readers

117 users here now

Health: physical and mental, individual and public.

Discussions, issues, resources, news, everything.

See the pinned post for a long list of other communities dedicated to health or specific diagnoses. The list is continuously updated.

Nothing here shall be taken as medical or any other kind of professional advice.

Commercial advertising is considered spam and not allowed. If you're not sure, contact mods to ask beforehand.

Linked videos without original description context by OP to initiate healthy, constructive discussions will be removed.

Regular rules of lemmy.world apply. Be civil.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Awa@lemmy.world

WhoRoger@lemmy.world

RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world

Vaccine ‘skeptics’ among new advisers joining CDC committee (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Some have little to no documented experience with vaccines while others have undermined their safety

Five new advisers will join the vaccines committee for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) later this week, the agency and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Monday, in a move that underscores the increasingly anti-vaccine stance of the committee.

Some of the new members have little to no documented experience with vaccines, while others have repeatedly undermined the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and other measures to control infectious disease.

The news comes on the heels of resignations by senior health leaders who say they were ignored or pressured to participate in unscientific processes, including changes to Covid vaccine eligibility and access.

top 7 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They’re not “vaccine skeptics”. They’re morons. Morons are joining the CDC committee.

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, calling them skeptics gives them an air of legitimacy

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

the common clay of the new west

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can already see how this is gonna play out. A panel of highly-qualified scientists/researchers with many decades of experience under their collective belts will make reasoned and well-researched claims in favor of vaccines.

Then a panel of mouth-breathers will respond with some hare-brained bullshit about autism being the outcome of vaccine usage.

The laws will then be changed to make vaccines illegal permanently in the US.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

...then shock and surprise when autism rates don't change....at all...and now we have tens of thousands of dead and sick children all so that parents don't have to feel icky about giving their kids a ouchy boo boo because they think they know more than doctors after reading two Facebook posts and watching a 6 minute YouTube video from a dude named Stan filming himself in his oversized truck on his morning commute to his machinist job.

Conservatives are about to get everything they ever wanted and then learn the hardest fucking way just how fucking awful it all is. Except at that point everyone's now suffering, no one gives a shit about anyone else.

Inb4 we stop doing math and science and have "truthy" engineering and "truthy" research papers. Love the direction we're going....

[–] farting_gorilla@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I think we saw what will happen with the whole jobs data fiasco. Some report will come out saying autism rates are the same, the govt will claim fake news , fire someone, then come out with their own numbers in black sharpie showing rates are super low, the best numbers. And no child deaths recently either, none.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I wish I wasn't wishing for another pandemic at this point.