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Trump 1.0 Surgeon General Jerome Adams says RFK Jr's cuts to mRNA vaccine funding are 'going to cost lives'

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"I’ve tried to be objective & non-alarmist in response to current HHS actions – but quite frankly this move is going to cost lives," Adams said in a post on X on Aug. 5.

He added, "mRNA technology has uses that go far beyond vaccines… and the vaccine they helped develop in record time is credited with saving millions."

The HHS, now being led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said in a release on Aug. 5 it is cutting nearly $500 million at the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which helps develop mRNA vaccine technology.

“The rest of the world is doubling down on mRNA medicines. It’s a fact, and the U.S. is going to lose the race,” [Johns Hopkins prof] Coller told USA TODAY on August 6. “The decision coming from Kennedy is essentially destroying our dominance in the biotech space.”
 
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In related news, a recent study of Swiss healthcare workers found that mRNA boosters increased the risk of infection and workdays lost (emphasis mine):

Based on our data, we conclude that SARS-CoV-2 booster vaccination does not contribute to the protection of the healthcare workforce in a post-pandemic setting. SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may even temporarily increase the likelihood of symptomatic infection and workday loss.
 
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In related news, a recent study of Swiss healthcare workers found that mRNA boosters increased the risk of infection and workdays lost (emphasis mine):

Based on our data, we conclude that SARS-CoV-2 booster vaccination does not contribute to the protection of the healthcare workforce in a post-pandemic setting. SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may even temporarily increase the likelihood of symptomatic infection and workday loss.

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Nature Portfolio? Open access journal? Like most anti-vaxx journals, it has zero credibility.
 
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Nature Portfolio? Open access journal? Like most anti-vaxx journals, it has zero credibility.

Anti-vaxx journal? Not hardly.

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In 2023, The Cleveland Clinic did a study of more than 50,000 healthcare workers. That study found a perfect correlation between an increased number of COVID vaccine doses and an increased number of infections. The is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what one would have expected to see from an "effective" vaccine.

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The study's authors said this (emphasis mine):

The association of increased risk of COVID-19 with more prior vaccine doses was unexpected. A simplistic explanation might be that those who received more doses were more likely to be individuals at higher risk of COVID-19. A small proportion of individuals may have fit this description. However, the majority of participants in this study were young, and all were eligible to have received ≥3 doses of vaccine by the study start date, which they had every opportunity to do. Therefore, those who received <3 doses (46% of individuals in the study) were not ineligible to receive the vaccine but rather chose not to follow the CDC's recommendations on remaining updated with COVID-19 vaccination, and one could reasonably expect these individuals to have been more likely to exhibit risk-taking behavior. Despite this, their risk of acquiring COVID-19 was lower than that that of participants those who received more prior vaccine doses.
Ours is not the only study to find a possible association with more prior vaccine doses and higher risk of COVID-19. During an Omicron wave in Iceland, individuals who had previously received ≥2 doses were found to have a higher odds of reinfection than those who had received <2 doses, in an unadjusted analysis [21]. A large study found, in an adjusted analysis, that those who had an Omicron variant infection after previously receiving 3 doses of vaccine had a higher risk of reinfection than those who had an Omicron variant infection after previously receiving 2 doses [22]. Another study found, in multivariable analysis, that receipt of 2 or 3 doses of am mRNA vaccine following prior COVID-19 was associated with a higher risk of reinfection than receipt of a single dose [7]. Immune imprinting from prior exposure to different antigens in a prior vaccine [22, 23] and class switch toward noninflammatory spike-specific immunoglobulin G4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination [24] have been suggested as possible mechanisms whereby prior vaccine may provide less protection than expected. We still have a lot to learn about protection from COVID-19 vaccination, and in addition to vaccine effectiveness, it is important to examine whether multiple vaccine doses given over time may not be having the beneficial effect that is generally assumed.
Of course, multiple fact-checkers leapt into action when this study was published to downplay the correlation between increased doses of vaccine and increased infections, but did absolutely nothing to address the fact that more doses was correlated with more infections, not to mention addressing the other three studies referenced in the paragraph above that found the same result. And now, there is yet another study showing that repeated COVID vaccine doses in healthcare workers was correlated with increased infection rates.

You'd think at some point, people would drop the "anti-vaxx" pejorative and actually consider the data that shows that the people getting more vaccine doses have a HIGHER infection rate. Instead, it took a mere SEVEN MINUTES from the time I posted the Swiss study above for someone to come along and try to discredit the source with false allegations of it being "anti-vaxx" without even having read it or considering its methodology and results. This is because vaccines have become so politicized that ANY discussion of potential harms is instantly tarred as "anti-vaxx" instead of properly considered and analyzed.

Maybe, just maybe, mRNA vaccines aren't as wonderful as you've been led to believe.
 
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