Medical disinfo is to blame for waning vaccine sales, 21 June 2025.
Medical disinformation is to blame for waning vaccine sales and insufficient opposition to the anti-vaxxers in the Trump regime.
Reuters - US cancels more than $700 million funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine By Patrick Wingrove May 29, 2025 Bird flu has infected 70 people, most of them farm workers, over the past year as it has spread aggressively among cattle herds and poultry flocks. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has questioned the use of vaccines and earlier this year drew censure from some in the U.S. Congress after he suggested in a television interview that poultry farmers should let the bird flu spread unchecked through their flocks to study chickens who did not contract it. Moderna said it plans to explore alternatives for late-stage development and manufacturing of the vaccine. The company has been banking on revenue from newer mRNA shots, including its bird flu vaccine and experimental COVID-flu combination vaccine, to make up for waning post-pandemic demand for its COVID vaccine.
The demand for vaccines is down because there have been no real campaigns to get people vaccinated, and yet there have been huge and well funded disinformation campaigns scaring people about vaccines so that they are not making clear-headed risk benefit decisions. The irony is that these campaigns have come from a small number of people misinforming people, before and during the pandemic. The demand for vaccines is down also partly because of the lie that's been told that we're "post-pandemic" which can be interpreted to mean "the pandemic is over" (rather than "after the pandemic started"). People need to stop saying post-pandemic, because it's not good communication, people are often not even talking about the same thing and don't even realize it. The reason for vaccine uptake lagging has definitely been affected by orchestrated disinformation campaigns! Maybe we should actually promote vaccines instead of allowing or even doing taxpayer funded operations against vaccines.
My letter to elected representatives:
I want vaccines. I want research on effective vaccines funded, I want covid vaccines, I want vaccines covered by all insurance, and I want free vaccination available to the uninsured. I want you to make sure I’m able to get vaccinated and that we have effective vaccination campaigns.
Please feel free to copy or repurpose the contents of my letter for your own letters to reps.
🗞️ In the news
CIDRAP - ACIP draft agenda revives anti-vaccine boilerplate topics Lisa Schnirring June 18, 2025 In closely watched developments ahead of next week’s meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory panel, the CDC today posted a draft meeting agenda, which adds hot-button topics that have become common talking points of vaccine critics.
RFKJr is also going after worker safety in the heat in a time of climate change.
Bloomberg - Heat Is Bad for Workers’ Health. RFK Jr. Doesn’t Care. Temperatures are soaring, so naturally Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is getting rid of all the experts who have been devising on-the-job protections. June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM UTC By Mark Gongloff Soaring temperatures, which are deadlier than any other natural disaster, will endanger the health and productivity of millions of Americans this summer. Workers at construction sites, farms and factories, along with delivery workers and many others in heat-exposed jobs, are especially at risk. So naturally, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is somehow in charge of managing our nation’s health, has reportedly fired all of the people who have been helping the federal government write heat protections for workers. This will likely make extreme heat even riskier and the economic impact even heavier.
Image is a bloomberg graph that says: Extreme Heat Is the Deadliest Disaster High temperatures take more American lives each year than any other natural phenomenon Number of US fatalities in 2024 10-year average graph shows, in order from worst to least in fatalities in 2024 Heat, Flood, Hurricane, Rip currents, Wind, tornado, winter, cold, lightning. Source: National Weather Service Note: Heat fatality data will likely rise due to reporting delays. Hurricane-related deaths are attributed only to wind.
Don't count on saviours.
Anyone depending on doctors & scientists to "stand up" for us be warned — we've already seen how ineffective they were at protecting the high risk from the right-wing covid deniers, things have gotten worse & now vaccines are threatened too. Let them do for themselves & stand up for your own interests!
And definitely don't wait on the influencers.
Quote:
"When these vaccines aren't supported in this way, often insurers and other payers decide not to cover these medications, which creates additional barriers"
— John Lynch, MD, MPH
(speaking about the need to recommend covid vaccines for pregnant women)