As a liver doctor who has treated patients with hepatitis B for decades, this change to the vaccine schedule is a mistake. The hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective. The birth dose is a recommendation, NOT a mandate.
Before the birth dose was recommended, 20,000 newborns a year were infected with hepatitis B. Now, it’s fewer than 20. Ending the recommendation for newborns makes it more likely the number of cases will begin to increase again. This makes America sicker.
Acting CDC Director O’Neill should not sign these new recommendations and instead retain the current, evidence-based approach.
Total freaking bad a§§es. There's nothing to see here. Just men and dogs jumping out of a plane to save the world. Dogs are incredible. Mans best friend. 🔥🔥🔥
BREAKING: Senator Elizabeth Warren sounds the alarm about Donald Trump's idiotic decision to put conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. in charge of the Department of of Health and Human Services.
She didn't pull any punches...
"Say goodbye to your smile and say hello to polio — that’s what’s on the horizon if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes the Secretary of Health and Human Services,” Warren wrote on X along with a video.
"You know I would laugh if it weren't so scary," she said in the clip. "Donald Trump just picked RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. This is a man who wants to stop kids from getting their polio and measles shots."
"He's actually welcoming a return to polio a disease we nearly eradicated," she continued. "But it doesn't stop there. RFK Jr. also doesn't believe fluoride should be in your water and that's what keeps your teeth from rotting."
"You can't make this stuff up!" she added.
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Mitch Mcconnell just issued this statement in response to this NYT report:
“Like millions of families before them, my parents knew the pain and fear of watching their child struggle with the life-altering diagnosis of polio. From the age of two, normal life without paralysis was only possible for me because of the miraculous combination of modern medicine and a mother’s love. But for millions who came after me, the real miracle was the saving power of the polio vaccine…
The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives and held out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease. Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous. Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.”
NEW: Grandma gets run over by a ‘reindeer’ in Watertown, New York during a turkey trot.
The incident happened during the Watertown Turkey Day Run when at least 4 deer ran into the crowd.
According to the Watertown police, three people were injured with one being sent to the hospital.
PSA: When you’re threatening to pull children’s hospital funding because doctors don’t want to turn kids away over their immigration status, you might not be the good guys in the story. https://t.co/4DANVQVuCJ