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I feel like "Whoops." could be the summary for the whole meeting.

I guess it is emotional to not want babies to die, least of all of preventable causes 🤷‍♂️

Right? He was my least favorite during the kid covid discussions.

Early in this ACIP meeting, Vicky Pebsworth blamed gay men, promiscuous women, urban residents, and immigrants for spreading HBV in the U.S.

Then Evelyn Griffin said, out loud, that “illegal immigrants” are to blame.

This committee should be DISBANDED and exiled to science Siberia.

2/2

Current ACIP Member Evelyn Griffin, MD blaming illegal immigration for patients having hepatitis B. This is racist.

The ACIP does not have any standing to affect domestic immigration policy or procedures.

Pebsworth refers to it as "the Lender study", this is at roughly 2h22, in response to Hibbeln's question asking for any evidence of actual harm.

There's no occurrence of "lender" in his meeting materials www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

I post this as a refutation to the "Lender study" that Mark Blaxill refers to, which I can't find. Does anyone know what study he's talking about?

Safety of neonatal hepatitis B vaccine administration - PubMed This study found no evidence that newborn hepatitis B vaccination is associated with an increase in the number of febrile episodes, sepsis evaluations or allergic or neurologic events. In addition our data did not support any increase in medical procedures attributed to receipt of hepatitis B vaccin …

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11734710/ This study found no evidence that newborn hepatitis B vaccination is associated with an increase in the number of febrile episodes, sepsis evaluations or allergic or neurologic events.

Prasad makes wild claim about covid vaccines. Levi then points to that wild claim as evidence of harm from vaccines to bolster the idea that hep B vaccines may be harmful and we should be "humble." It's an incompetent snake eating its own incompetent tail. #acip

and then malone is like, well they work for the CDC now 🤡

So far, the Temu ACIP meeting is basically a bounce house of misinformation.

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I mean, I think the results of men's participation indicates men shouldn't be participating

It was a quid pro quo for dropping out of the presidential race

If they really want answers they should be funding health research instead of decimating the NIH.

We should only be compared to nations without universal healthcare, honestly.

He really shows the power of just keeping on talking -- he was able to get out that whole powerful statement by just not stopping.

Catching up on this thread from the West Coast

The Hepatitis B Vaccine: Why the Birth Dose Matters and Why We Must Defend It Defending science, saving newborn lives, and keeping the world on track to end Hepatitis B

The #ACIP meets tomorrow to assault on vaccines that protect children. They will be debating the birth dose of the hep B vaccine. I wrote about this previously but we cannot say it enough stopping the birth dose is unethical given the many benefits.
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False claims often link childhood vaccines, including the hepatitis B (HBV) vaccine, to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). In reality, many studies have looked at this issue and found no connection between vaccines and SIDS. While most studies examined the full set of childhood vaccines rather than HBV alone, at least one study focused just on HBV and still found no link. During this meeting, the ACIP committee is likely to cite this study which at first glance seemed to have found a higher rate of SIDS deaths in the vaccinated group, but the total overall number of unexpected infant deaths due to any cause was not statistically significantly different between HBV vaccinated and unvaccinated groups (p=0.6). In the initial analysis, they looked at deaths of infants who had received the Hep B vaccine. In this group, there were 8 SIDS deaths. By contrast, the group of infant deaths in the matched unvaccinated group that was used for comparison had no SIDS deaths, but did have a lot of other causes of death. This initial imbalance likely reflects confounding: the matched unvaccinated infants were more medically fragile or unhealthy overall, and at higher risk for mortality from other causes, making them an inappropriate comparison group. To address this, the authors calculated SIDS rates using the full population—240,717 vaccinated infants (including the 8 SIDS deaths mentioned above, 3.3 per 100,000 births), and 120,979 unvaccinated newborns (including four additional SIDS cases not captured in the matched subset, also 3.3 per 100,000 births). The resulting identical rates (P = 0.99) show no statistical difference in SIDS risk between HBV vaccinated and unvaccinated newborns.

A study cited in today's ACIP meeting about Hep B and SIDS was misrepresented. The study's authors themselves have refuted an association.

is that the same as a keyboard?

Basically none of these people know what they're doing. Meissner is the only pediatrician, and him being the sole voice of reason is not great.

www.cdc.gov/acip/meeting...

Stay in your lane, clowns.

Shared decision making on birth dose? Could be worse. But if not at birth then wait until 2 months? What possible rationale could there be for that?

Super dumb to put "status unknown" in the same bucket as hep B negative.

They want to run titers before subsequent doses?! Have they ever done a blood draw on an infant? They want to introduce the complexity of interpreting labs nobody orders in a healthcare system where 50% of perinatal cases are missed in part because of the complexity of hep B testing/interpretation?

What's the #ACIP hashtag going to be? These votes are ludicrous. They're acting like they're characters in Mario Kart just lobbing bananas to see where they land.

Vaccinating newborns against hepatitis B saves lives. Why might a CDC panel stop recommending it?

Children vaccinated against hepatitis B at birth are 22% less likely to die from any cause, according to to study of medical records from 1999-2018.

Why wouldn't a parent want that vaccine for their baby? Why is a CDC vaccine panel considering taking it away?

www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

43%?? wow