Posted on 09/06/2025 6:23:19 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
President Trump on Friday expressed support for mandatory vaccines for school-aged children, amid Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.’s push to end unnecessary vaccination.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, where Democrats sought to grill him about his personnel and vaccine guidance shake-up at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Per the Hill, “the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped recommending the COVID-19 vaccine for those under 18. Kennedy, meanwhile, has fired all 17 sitting members of CDC’s vaccine advisory panel and also moved to oust the CDC head and other top HHS experts.”
During the Senate hearing, RFK revealed that in the early 2000s, a senior CDC scientist was ordered to destroy data from an internal study that showed a staggering link between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism risk in young Black boys. The data showed that black boys, who got vaccinated before 24 months of age or 36 months of age, “had a 260% greater chance of getting an autism diagnosis than children who waited,” RFK said.
This also comes after Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced earlier this week that the Florida Department of Health is planning to remove “every last” vaccine mandate from Florida law.
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Vaccines do work. Mandates are the problem. Trump, again, is correct.
Trump is right here. The mRNA vaccines should be investigated by RFK Jr. And they should not be used again unless they are completely cleared.
But my goodness. Vaccines like the polio vaccine are rock-solid. They have saved many thousands of Americans from horrible diseases.
To make such vaccines optional is foolish. Because all it takes is one infected illegal from who knows where… and it’s iron lung time again.
Agreed. However he was referring to the childhood vaxxes
Do you think the Constitution grants government the power to require vaccinations?
If so, point it out because I haven’t found it.
I will be surprised if you get much support from FReepers as to your opinions on the need for children to get Covid vaccines.
Personally, I think there is a lot of info that has not been allowed to come out, as to potential risks of vaccinations for otherwise healthy children with the Covid vaccines that have become available so far. JMHO
Another issue they seem to ignore is the addition of heavy metals to vaccines. We know heavy metals are unhealthy, why are we adding them to vaccines.
Also, are people really worried about COVID now? I think most people are not getting boosters at this point. I know there are still some people who get seriously ill, but at this point its a tiny amount?
Exactly- and some of them have worked very well through the years...
LOL- did you read the President’s answer?? He’s 10000% correct in what he said- there is no uniform answer or decision on ALL vaccines and its something that’s very tough to answer...
“About 234,000 children under age 18 were hospitalized with confirmed cases of COVID-19 from fall 2020 to spring 2024, according to AAP analysis of data collected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).”
This contains a graph over time:
https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/29182/AAP-analyzes-pediatric-COVID-19-hospitalizations?autologincheck=redirected
Note the winter of 2022 peak.
Yep
Trump isnt a scientist
And pragmatism/feelings isnt the way you determine medical safety.
MyMD said I didn’t need a vax. That’s where I get my med advice.
Love DJT, but he’s not my doctor.
For their first and last birthday you give the kid a clot shot.
“It’s the schedule stupid.”
How quickly some forget. /s
Thank you. I stand corrected.
Yes, he’s right about that and I should have read it fully.
Bill Gates met with Trump at the White House the very night RFK testified, and stated he and Trump are still working together on vaccines. I wonder who will be gone from Trump’s orbit first, because they can’t really co-exist long term.
To look back at history, it wasn’t a polio vaccine that cured polio, it was vitamins. Polio vaccine gave people polio. It killed others.
I don’t think we have good data at this point. I think the adverse data was lost, forgotten, skewed, or ignored.
I think the MSM is also spewing all kinds of dishonesty about whether people can even get Covid shots/boosters now, and that is causing many people to panic and assume that RFK Jr is somehow keeping them from access to vaccines they might want.
Our local NBC news did everything in its power, these past few days, to confuse the entire issue as to availability of Covid vaccines. Of course, they also suggest that the shots are no longer FREE, and Biden was giving them out for FREE, so that makes Trump bad, etc.
It seems like the influence of pharmaceutical companies just adds another ugly layer to the controversies.
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