On December 2nd the Washington Post ran a panicked story headlined, \u201cRFK Jr.\u2019s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule.\u201d Kirk Milhoan, newly appointed chair of the CDC\u2019s Vaccine Advisory Committee, ominously announced, \u201cNot enough attention is being paid to risk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Milhoan, who replaced former committee chair Marty Makary, is a pediatric cardiologist, ivermectin proponent, and long-time critic of covid vaccines. You can imagine how much the media likes him. Yesterday, Dr. Milhoan announced that committee members, meeting tomorrow and Friday, will \u201cbroadly scrutinize\u201d the entire pediatric vaccine schedule. You could hear a pin drop.<\/p>\n
The \u201cdiscussions on the timing of vaccines and ingredients could signal major changes to how children in the United States are vaccinated,\u201d the Post reported despairingly. Tomorrow, the committee will formally vote on scrapping the hepatitis B vaccine for babies at birth, so long as their mothers test negative for the virus. (Hep B is usually acquired through sex and illegal drug use.)<\/p>\n
Furthermore, and even more encouraging, the committee is \u201clooking at what may be causing some of the long-term changes we\u2019re seeing in population data in children, specifically things such as asthma and eczema and other autoimmune diseases,\u201d Milhoan said in an interview Monday.<\/p>\n
Then he dropped the hammer. Milhoan said, \u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do is figure out if there are factors within vaccines\u201d that could be causing these problems, instantly terrifying every reporter within earshot and sending ice shooting through their veins (at least, the ones not punctured by needle holes).<\/p>\n
Currently, and specifically, the committee is considering aluminum, which is added to over a dozen scheduled vaccines, intended to shock recipients\u2019 immune systems into working even better than without aluminum.<\/p>\n
\u201cPublic health and medical experts have raised alarms that the panel is moving toward recommending that only vaccines without aluminum adjuvants be used,\u201d the Post said. \u201c Vaccine industry officials said that removing aluminum adjuvants from vaccines would cost billions of dollars and that finding a replacement would take years,\u201d it explained.<\/p>\n
The bowtied brigades can feel the walls closing in. Last week, the CDC revised its website to remove the claim that vaccines don\u2019t cause autism. On Friday, the nation\u2019s top vaccine regulator, Dr. Vinay Prasad, announced more stringent approaches to approving vaccines, citing research showing at least ten kids had been killed by the covid shots. Now this.<\/p>\n
Government is glacially slow, which is probably a good thing in most cases. By any sane measure, RFK\u2019s team is moving at lightspeed. This is terrific progress.<\/p>\n