The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Meeting of December 4 and 5, 2025 PART II In part I of this blog series posted yesterday, I gave you a taste of the most recent ACIP meeting. It was painful for me to listen to, and I am goingContinue reading “It Is an Unfortunate Time for Our Country to be Tolerating an Anti-Vax Administration and the Undermining of our Public Health System and Scientific Research Infrastructure”
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What to Know About the Recent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (CDC) Meeting
Part IV: Understanding Vaccine Safety This is the last blog piece in this blog series, as I wrap up my coverage of the most recent ACIP meeting. It has become clear that many people, even some of the members of this committee do not understand vaccine safety, what it means when we say a vaccineContinue reading “What to Know About the Recent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (CDC) Meeting”
What to Know About This Past Week’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (CDC) Meeting
Part III: The COVID-19 Vaccines The Issue – Given the sudden dismissal of all former members of the ACIP, the recent replacement of these members, and the firing of the CDC Director, there was a need for the ACIP to issue its recommendations for the recently FDA-approved 2025 – 2026 Updated COVID-19 vaccines. What wereContinue reading “What to Know About This Past Week’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (CDC) Meeting”
What to Know About This Past Week’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (CDC) Meeting
Part II: The Hepatitis B Vaccine (birth dose) The Issue – Whether the first dose of hepatitis B vaccine (a three-dose series) should continue to be administered in the hospital within 24 hours of delivery to the newborns of mothers who test negative for hepatitis B infection (specifically, when the laboratory returns a negative testContinue reading “What to Know About This Past Week’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (CDC) Meeting”
Making Sense of the COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations and Guidance
A concise and simplified approach Answer: Ask for the 2025 – 2026 Updated COVID-19 Vaccine. Answer: There are four vaccines that will be available in the U.S.: (Company/Brand name/Vaccine type/Age approval) Answer: Spikevax is the same type and dose of vaccine that Moderna has offered throughout the pandemic, though the formulation has been updated overContinue reading “Making Sense of the COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations and Guidance”
COVID-19 Vaccines Truth or Fiction?
If you are confused about COVID-19 vaccines, whether they are “good” or “bad”, effective or ineffective, safe or unsafe, causing more deaths than COVID-19 itself, resulting in a new epidemic of “turbo cancer” or not, and whether you should consider getting an updated vaccine when they roll out around the country next month, this blogContinue reading ” COVID-19 Vaccines Truth or Fiction?”
A (fairly) Comprehensive Review of What We Know, What We Think We Know and What You Should Consider about COVID-19.
A (fairly) Comprehensive Review of What We Know, What We Think We Know and What You Should Consider about COVID-19. My intention here is to provide you with information. With this information, you can make your own decisions about your health care. Any recommendations that I make are just that – you can choose whetherContinue reading “A (fairly) Comprehensive Review of What We Know, What We Think We Know and What You Should Consider about COVID-19.”
Idaho Legislature Votes to Make Ivermectin an Over-the-counter Medication
Kyle Pfannenstiel has excellent reporting in yesterday’s issue of the Idaho Capital Sun Idaho Legislature approves ivermectin deregulation, sending bill to governor • Idaho Capital Sun about the Idaho Legislature approving a measure to overrule federal law that requires ivermectin to be dispensed to humans pursuant to a prescription, which these Legislators believe will allowContinue reading “Idaho Legislature Votes to Make Ivermectin an Over-the-counter Medication”
Weighing the Risk of Vaccines versus Disease
In my prior blog post on Why Get Vaccinated and How Do Vaccines Work, I tried to explain what vaccines are, how they work at a very basic level, and the benefits of vaccines that might weigh in favor of immunization for those who have no or only a rudimentary understanding of vaccines, immunology andContinue reading “Weighing the Risk of Vaccines versus Disease”
Why get Vaccinated and How do Vaccines Work?
Other than sanitation (especially clean water, proper food handling, and reducing human exposure to rodents), I cannot think of anything that has done more to reduce childhood mortality, relieve human suffering and extend human life expectancy than vaccines. What is a vaccine? In general, a vaccine is something given by mouth (e.g., polio vaccine), intranasallyContinue reading “Why get Vaccinated and How do Vaccines Work?”
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