Posted on 08/15/2025 10:08:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway
New CDC director also backed a new option for infant immunization against RSV
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month quietly endorsed recommendationsopens in a new tab or window from his handpickedopens in a new tab or window vaccine advisors that everyone in the U.S. ages 6 months and older receive a flu shot for the upcoming season.
The backdated notice appeared this week on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) recommendationsopens in a new tab or window page without fanfare -- a contrast to Kennedy's July announcementopens in a new tab or window endorsing the removal of thimerosal from flu vaccines despite the preservative's long safety record.
"ACIP reaffirms the recommendations for routine annual influenza vaccination of all persons aged ≥6 months who do not have contraindications for the 2025-2026 season," the ACIP page states. "With no current CDC Director and pending confirmation of a new CDC Director, this recommendation was adopted by the HHS Secretary on July 22, 2025, and is now an official recommendation of the CDC."
A new CDC director, Susan Monarez, PhDopens in a new tab or window, is now in place.
Quiet on Vaccine Endorsements, Loud on Vaccine Attacks
In the past, ACIP recommendations such as flu vaccination guidance have typically been endorsed quickly by CDC directors, often the same day of the influential group's meetings. Kennedy filled in on endorsing ACIP recommendations amid the absence of a CDC director, but his delayed decisions left some recommendations in limbo for weeks or months, creating uncertainty given his history of anti-vaccine activismopens in a new tab or window and vaccine misinformationopens in a new tab or window.
Kennedy's false claimsopens in a new tab or window have extended to flu vaccines as well, including saying there is "zero evidence that the flu shot prevents any hospitalizations or any deaths" and that people who get the flu shot are "six times more likely to give the flu to somebody else."
Vaccine policies have become more restrictive under Kennedy's tenure as well. In May, FDA leaders announced plansopens in a new tab or window to begin restricting COVID-19 vaccinationopens in a new tab or window, and HHS just this weekopens in a new tab or window announced it was canceling $500 million in funding and winding down development of mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses such as COVID-19 and influenza.
CDC Director Backs New RSV Antibody
Another ACIP recommendation from the June meeting earned an endorsement Aug. 4 from Monarez. ACIP called for infants younger than 8 months who were born during or entering their first respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season who are not protected by maternal vaccination to receive one dose of clesrovimab (Enflonsia)opens in a new tab or window. The monoclonal antibody joins a similar long-acting shot, nirsevimab (Beyfortus),opens in a new tab or window as an option for this population.
Apparently, waking up to a horse head in your bed is motivating.
Two types of people:
1. Those who believe that vaccines are a good thing, but have questions about the MRNA vaccines and about the number of vaccines given to children under two years old.
2. Those who are militantly anti-vaccine.
The much smaller second group is much more vocal than the much larger first group. This influences many of the simple-minded to adopt an anti-vaccine stance.
Vaccines have saved millions of lives. We need to keep the two groups separated in our minds and in our culture.
We can’t hate the press enough.
So glad my kids are all grown and I don’t have to deal with this mess.
And those who think everyone must get all vaccines tested or untested in order to save everyone’s life
You believe those are the only two types of people?
Not me. I’ve never gotten flu since I stopped the vaccines.
All Big Pharma jabs are POISON, case closed.
“”opens in a new tab or window from his handpickedopens in a new tab or window””
Appears 10 times in the thread..Nothing to do with the article/thread..
No. I was merely speaking in the context of those who want to limit vaccines, not those who want everything.
Shoot.
Not all vaccines are bad. For example, Jonas Salk’s vaccine saved many thousands from the horror of polio.
Anyway, I’ve read that some companies are messing around with an mRNA flu vaccine. (Oh, hell no.)
So if you’re getting a flu shot, be sure to ask your provider just what kind of flu shot you’re getting.
Exactly
If any rational person was to pick which vaccines had real value then they would not pick a flu vaccine. They don’t really work and they do far more harm than good. If someones body is going to be subjected to a limited number of vaccines then this should not be one of them.
And it's worse because in the U.S. since the 80's, it's illegal to sue vaccine manufacturers, and it's almost impossible to get anything from the agency for vaccine injuries.
“Two types of people:
1. Those who believe that vaccines are a good thing, but have questions about the MRNA vaccines and about the number of vaccines given to children under two years old.
2. Those who are militantly anti-vaccine.
The much smaller second group is much more vocal than the much larger first group. This influences many of the simple-minded to adopt an anti-vaccine stance.
Vaccines have saved millions of lives. We need to keep the two groups separated in our minds and in our culture.”
There is an organized third group who tries to demonize and label everyone who is in the 1st group as if they were in the 2nd group, the sad thing is not all of them are being paid by the pharma companies, they are just that mentally ill. (probably on anti-depressants too)
I agree. Americans traditionally have a healthy distrust of authority.
Medical establishment: You cannot challenge our authority.
European: Okay.
American: What are trying to hide?
But there is still the question of believing something is a vaccine when people who want you dead say you have to take it.
There's plenty of good evidence for the annual flu shots.
But like any other pharmaceuticals, they aren’t infallible. Why does the government allow lawsuits for any other pharmaceutical, but not vaccines? We still need rigorous science for any pharmaceutical. Hubris is the enemy of science.
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