FDA Chief Warns US Immunity Is ‘At Risk’ as More People Decline Vaccinations

[Amethyst]

 

The rising number of US citizens declining vaccinations is threatening population immunity to certain diseases, according to two US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) leaders.

 

“The situation has now deteriorated to the point that population immunity against some vaccine-preventable infectious diseases is at risk, and thousands of excess deaths are likely to occur this season due to illnesses amenable to prevention or reduction in severity of illness with vaccines,” according to FDA Commissioner Dr Robert Califf and Dr Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research writing in the journal, JAMA.

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They cite a recent measles outbreak in central Ohio involving 85 children, 36 of whom (42%) had to be hospitalized for complications.

 

In addition, only 35% of people older than 65 have had the updated COVID-19 vaccine (XBB.1.5 monovalent), which is about half the rate in this age group in the UK.

 

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https://healthpolicy-watch.news/fda-chief-warns-us-immunity-is-at-risk-as-more-people-decline-vaccinations/

 

 

January 5, 2024

Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point?

To counter the current trend, we urge the clinical and biomedical community to redouble its efforts to provide accurate plain-language information regarding the individual and collective benefits and risks of vaccination. Such information is now needed because vaccines have been so successful in achieving their intended effects that many people no longer see the disturbing morbidity and mortality from infections amenable to vaccines. For example, smallpox has been eradicated, and polio has been eliminated from the US, through effective vaccination campaigns.

 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2813910

 

 

[flyingtlger]

LOL, most of these antivaxers are conspiracy theorist.

They don't believe in science.

Let them die off.

Darwinism is alive and kicking.....