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‘Never seen anything like this’: alarm at memo from top US vaccine official (www.theguardian.com)

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*Vinay Prasad memo said at least 10 children had died from Covid vaccination – but offered scant evidence for claim

America’s top vaccines official promised, in a long and argumentative memo to staff on Friday, to revamp vaccine regulation after claiming that at least 10 children died from Covid vaccination – but he offered no evidence for that allegation and scant details on the new approach.

The top-down changes, without input from outside advisers or publication of data, worries experts who fear vaccines such as the flu shot may quickly disappear and that public trust will take a major hit.

“The ultimate outcome will be fewer vaccines and more vaccine-preventable illness,” said Dan Jernigan, former director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases until this year.

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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

I remember years ago seeing a Vice news video about how hard it was to get vaccines to some 3rd world countries because the misinformation surrounding them was so bad nobody wanted to give them to their kids. It was so bad that the people doing this by going door to door would sometimes be shot. It's unbelievable that this may be Americas own future soon enough.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

It’s highly unusual for the top vaccines regulator to share information in an email to all staff without first convening the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), or publishing the data in a public presentation or study, Jernigan said.

It’s not “highly unusual”, it’s dangerously and embarrassingly incompetent.