I've been away from my computer all day pretty much, and I am not going to try to catch up on all of the bizarro world Trump news of the day. I refuse. I'll wait and see how much of it is in tomorrow's newspaper.
I just want to note that according to the coverage of yesterday's CDC meetings, the group RFK Jr. has newly appointed appears to be on the verge of recommending delaying administering the Hepatitis B vaccine to infants for one month unless their mother is known to have HepB.
The infant HepB vaccine went into use in 1991, when there were 20,000 child cases a year. Now there are only 20 a year, according to my morning newspaper. That reduction is three orders of magnitude
The RFK partisans are ignoring facts presented by scientists about how mothers can be infected without knowing it, so delaying is bad and that from a public health standpoint it makes sense to vaccinate at birth.
They'd rather make it up as they go along and just delay for a month (who knows, what amount time should it be? Why not two months! A year! It appears to be random as far as they're concerned). And let babies get really sick, or maybe die.
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