Jan 28, 2024 by James Lyons-Weiler
An article from JAMA Network, entitled “Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point?”, discusses the declining vaccination rates in the United States, particularly against COVID-19. It focuses on the challenges posed by what it calls âvaccine misinformationâ and the strategies that clinicians and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can try to employ to try to counter this issue. The article stresses the importance of providing the public and healthcare professionals with timely, accurate, and easily understandable information about the benefits and risks of vaccination.
Huh. Now that would be novel, coming from the FDA at least.
Key Points
Declining Vaccination Rates: The article highlights concerns over the decreasing number of people in the U.S. choosing to get vaccinated, attributing this trend to various factors such as safety concerns and religious beliefs. It makes references to the success of vaccines to contributing to their success (which recognizable to Popular Rationalists as the complacency fallacy).
Impact of Misinformation: The article claims that the spread of vaccine misinformation has significantly contributed to this decline in acceptance, necessitating a robust response from health authorities and clinicians. The authors never mention myocarditis, blood clots, or other adverse events.
FDA’s Role: The article claims that the FDA is committed to providing health care professionals and the public with clear and factual information to explain the benefits and risks associated with vaccines, aiming to improve vaccination rates and public health outcomes.
Reduced rates of hospitalization among the vaccinated. The article claims that the COVID19 vaccines have saved millions of lives.
But the article ignores the fact that were it not for the vaccine and public health initiatives that forced all clinical roads to lead to these failed vaccines, the vaccines would not be increasing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus – leading to sustained hospitalizations and deaths in the first place.