The new head of the CDC Vaccine Board wants to run a massive experiment on America’s children to see how many will die of disease without vaccination. I’m not kidding:
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday — suggesting the public might want to reconsider the use of polio vaccines, arguing individual freedoms should be a north star of the panel, and pointing to the Covid pandemic as key to his thinking on health policy
Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who became chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in December, also downplayed established science on vaccines during an interview for the podcast and suggested policy goals, not new research, were the driving force behind changing recommendations in recent months.
In a wide-ranging interview with the podcast “Why Should I Trust You?”, Milhoan painted a more detailed picture of the committee’s strategy than has been previously known as it moves to weigh recommendations for vaccines given to children and pregnant people.
When asked why the committee had revised existing recommendations, including delaying the age by which some children are immunized for hepatitis B, Milhoan said plainly: “Yeah, because we were concerned about mandates, and mandates have really harmed and increased hesitancy.”
This is a public health official who doesn’t believe in public health. Someone should tell him how disease is spread because he doesn’t seem to know. He is a right wing libertarian nutcase:
“What we are doing is returning individual autonomy to the first order, not public health, but individual autonomy to the first order,” he said…
“[Patients] should be making the decisions on what the risks are of disease, what the risks are of vaccines, which is different for each person, what the family history is, and then make a decision from there, as opposed to what was sort of more of a heavy-handed, authoritarian thought of the vaccine schedule that led to mandates that if you didn’t have this set of vaccines exactly how they were prescribed, then you didn’t get in school,” he said.
Asked about Milhoan’s remarks, an AAP official said they were “only the latest step in an effort to sow doubt and confusion” about vaccines.
This one really gets me because what he’s saying is that people being unable to “do things” during the early period of the pandemic was a worse problem than the fact that over 1.2 MILLION AMERICANS DIED!!!! What kind of a doctor is this?
Overall, the spectre of Covid-19 loomed large for Milhoan in the podcast: He frequently pointed back to messaging about the Covid vaccines, which he believes were made out to be more effective than they are. He also said that, as a pediatric cardiologist, vaccines weren’t front of mind for him until Covid-19 vaccine mandates.
“People couldn’t go to school, and they couldn’t do this, and they couldn’t do this, to get a vaccine that has really been a large failure,” he said.
So this quack had never thought much about vaccines until somebody said that people should wear masks and the government partially closed up the country until we could get a handle on the problem. He is a political extremist period, not an immunologist, a public health expert or anything else. They might as well have dragged in some dentist from Dubuque and put him in charge of vaccines.
He’s also a liar and an idiot:
Milhoan also addressed what top appointees at the Food and Drug Administration have described as evidence that at least 10 children died from getting Covid vaccines, calling it “a very large death signal.” Vaccine experts have called on the FDA to make the data public; to date it has not. Milhoan told the podcast hosts he had seen the data, but did not elaborate on them.
At the same time, Milhoan cast doubt on the scientific rigor of current public health decision-making. “I don’t like established science,” he said, adding “science is what I observe.”
And he wants to bring back polio just as measles is now spreading so he can “observe” how many kids get it and die:
Asked about his thoughts on polio and measles vaccines, Milhoan seemed to question whether both are still necessary. There has been an international effort for nearly the past 40 years to eradicate the crippling polio virus, which still spreads in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and which occasionally makes its way out of that region. Measles, however, is running rampant in parts of the United States, with transmission occurring at rates that haven’t been seen since the early 1990s.
“I think also, as you look at polio, we need to not be afraid to consider that we are in a different time now than we were then. Our sanitation is different, our risk of disease is different, and so those all play into the evaluation of whether this is worthwhile of taking a risk for a vaccine or not,” Milhoan said.
“When … we talk about the risk of, let’s say, measles, many of those risks of not getting measles without having a vaccine was in the 1960s. We take care of children much differently now,” he added.
Milhoan’s suggestion that both better sanitation and less crowding could bring those diseases under better control than before the vaccines were introduced is a common talking point of Kennedy’s as well. One of Kennedy’s lawyers, Aaron Siri, prior to Kennedy’s confirmation, had petitioned the FDA to revoke approval for the polio vaccine.
“What we’re going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles,” he said. “What is the new incidence of hospitalization? What’s the incidence of death?”
Hey, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, amirite??? A few kids bite the dust from measles and we reintroduce polio into the population then maybe we’ll see if that brainworm-addled RFK Jr and this crank are right about everything.
I don’t know how much damage these freaks can do in the next three years alone but if we aren’t able to take back the country as the earliest possible moment a lot of people are going to get sick and die.
Putting that weirdo RFK Jr in charge of our public health and medical science may end up being the worst thing Trump did. And don’t ever forget why he did it. He was trying to win the election and needed to bring over the anti-vaxxers who were mad at him for doing the one good thing he did in his first term — sign off on the rapid development of the COVID vaccines. The worst political transaction in his depraved political career.
