Friday, April 04, 2025

How Kennedy Is Weakening America's Childhood Vaccine System

The Department of Health and Human Services cut $2 billion from a program that supports vaccines for vulnerable children, forcing public health departments to lay off staff and cancel clinics.

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New: HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn't take away childhood vaccines. Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids. Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled--all amid a measles outbreak. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt ...

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-- Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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... Last week, Jackie Griffith showed up at her office at the Collin County Health Care Clinic in north Texas ready to start her day " answering emails from local doctors before heading to a nearby high school to go over the latest vaccine record requirements.

Instead, the 60-year-old registered nurse was called into her director's office and told to pack up her belongings. The federal government had yanked funding, she learned, and her position " supporting vaccination efforts for uninsured children through a network of more than 60 providers " was gone.

Across the country in New Hampshire, Kayla Hogan, 27, was hearing the same. She worked for the state's Department of Health and Human Services, onboarding clinics and hospitals into a data system that would help them administer free childhood vaccines. Now that project was in jeopardy, threatening the process of getting children vaccinated. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-03 07:49 PM

My wife and I will be sure to continue to keep our vaccination statuses up to date with preventable diseases about to run amok thanks to RFK Jr.

Just last week we both got the MMR vaccine to thwart any chance of measles or mumps. Next week, we'll update our COVID vaccines too.

#2 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-04 12:38 AM

This is easily the scariest thing for me.

We just found out we're having another son in October.

I'm dreading the day I see a headline that RFK dumbf*&^ pulls approvals for childhood vaccines and I have to navigate a world where pediatric infectious diseases is a real threat again.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-04 02:40 AM

"The Department of Health and Human Services cut $2 billion from a program that supports vaccines for vulnerable children"

Who needs children?
America First!

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-04 08:52 AM

"We just found out we're having another son in October."

Congrats on the great news!

And here's to JPWJr!

#5 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-04 10:44 AM

This is what happens when we put a eugenicist in charge of HHS.

#6 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-04-04 03:05 PM

The children of wealthy people are now also at risk, given that children, being children, do not always segregate themselves by economic strata. Children playing together pass along germs and disease. For the Trumpian strategy of killing or taxing to death the poor, people have to die. Another part of the Trumpian strategy is to question vaccines. If rich folk keep hearing that vaccines are bad, they might believe such. That means that rich kids will die from the Trumpian strategy. Otherwise, how can the Trumpian strategy provide for vaccines for the rich, despite their bleating that vaccines are bad (wink, wink). Confusing, yes? Will children of all classes suffer and die? Yes...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-04-04 04:06 PM

Gotta cull th' herd...weed out the weak.

#8 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-04-04 06:01 PM

Just heard on the radio he cut the $169,000,000 grant for Tennessee's HHS infectious disease control.

MASA
Making America Sick Again

#9 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-04 07:02 PM

Hopefully the magats will follow wormbrain's advice. There's just too many still alive.

#10 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-04 11:37 PM

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