The altered Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, without new data to justify a reassessment, will no longer recommend universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth. The committee voted 8–3 to limit vaccination of newborns to those whose mothers test positive for the virus.
For mothers who test negative during pregnancy, ACIP now recommends waiting until their infants are two months of age to give them the first dose. There was no evidence provided at the meeting to support this timing change.
Again, from now until this malevolently incompetent adminstration is gone, it is imperative for everyone to look historically at what is needed WRT vaccinations and make sure to stay on top of the critical ones.
Just because Secretary Brainworm is saying something and getting others to play “yes man” to his insanity, does not oblige anyone in the public to listen to and obey, the shit they’re currently spewing.
Fuck those morons.
The real problem is insurance. You can get your child whatever vaccines your doctor will give them on whatever schedule but your insurance provider is likely to only cover the schedule from the government.
This is once again something that will disproportionately impact lower income families.
…your insurance provider is likely to only cover the schedule from the government…
Honestly, I doubt that. Insurers have the actuarial tables which represent the unvarnished, apolitical, straight numbers.
If the actuarials show that there is increased mortality and more importantly for them, increased morbidity (sickness) from not getting vaccinations on schedule, they’ll offer clinics to their members.
(The insurance that comes from my husband’s employer offers vaccine clinics for influenza and covid still, in spite of what the government is spewing.)
They’re not paying attention to the nonsense coming out of the beltway as they’ve got the actual numerical proof of what works and what doesn’t.
Insurance is the ONE industry that doesn’t deal with political fairy tales and governmental opinions.
They don’t give a shit because the numbers don’t lie and their profits are completely tied to them. That is all they look at.
I got a measles booster last spring since I’m old enough to have gotten the older non-viable vaccine from the mid-60’s. The insurance covered it no questions asked.
The brain worms are winning.
The party that cares about the children, ladies and gentlemen. /s
Where molesting them is concerned, yeah.
Nurgle is pleased.
Are Warhammer books any good?
Not really. They tend to be pretty amateurishly written.
And everyone in them always does the dumbest moves
Meh they’re pretty standard space opera pulp, with some better than others. The real problem is that, like any satire, eventually they forget they are supposed to be satire and begin to unironically endorse the system they mock.
I haven’t read any of them, just the reference stuff in rulebooks and wikis.
Shame. I still haven’t met anyone whose read them. It gets referenced a lot though.
I’ve read a few, they’re great filler as audiobooks.
I enjoyed xenos, malleus and hereticus by Dan Abnett.
They’re more like crime novels then warhammer smash and action from memory but still wharhammer
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well the headline is a bit misleading, the recommendation was changed from ‘within 24hrs of birth’ to ‘within 2 months of birth’
still cruel and idiotic, it will lead to unnecessary suffering… but chronically ill people are easily enslaved by their capitalist overlords, if they want their medicine that is
This is only a recommendation. The reason it’s dangerous is that now it’s up to states to decide to vaccinate babies with this vaccine and the vaccine has eliminated the cancer often caused by such an infection by something like 90%.
If you are an expectant mother please advocate for your children. Even if you’re not, we should all be advocating for our state legislatures to continue this recommendation.
I’m in Florida. Newborns won’t have a chance here.
Most of the power brokers just need the kids to live until they’re thirteen or so.
As bad as this is, it’s a change of recommendation, not a ban. Your doctor didn’t suddenly become retarded because of this, they still know what’s right.
I went for a covid vax last week, and my provider required me to read this long statement about how covid vaccination is only recommended for people over 65 or people with specific health conditions. They made me ‘attest’ to understanding that the vaccine isnot* recommended for me, but that I was voluntarily requesting it.
Now, I know that’s some lawyer bullshit. The practitioner agreed it was new corporate policy, but they were careful not to say anything that would have indicated a personal or professional belief other than the corporate legalese. And I’m pretty sure that some people, reading that a treatment is not recommended, will interpret that as actively discouraging rather than the absence of encouragement.
It’s some “giving insurance an excuse not to cover it” bullshit. Elective = self-pay.
I can’t say for other insurers, but mine still gives covid shots to non-recommended groups with no out-of-pocket cost. Their epidemiologists and actuaries still know that preventative care is way more profitable than emergency care, even if the lawyers kowtow to policy. I imagine that birth-hepatitis vax will be similar, but everything about births seems to be a cash grab for them.
