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Jim Alwine

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Virologist, Retired UPenn Professor, avid defender of facts, scientific research, vaccines and public health. Bicyclist, hiker, grandfather, writer, owned by two dachshunds and bass player for the Herpetic Legion.

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health because they will profit from it. These people are evil they do not have your best interest at heart.

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04.12.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices meeting has been an epidemiological crime scene. Once ACIP was a respected scientific body, but under RFKJr it has decayed into a platform of anti-vaccine lies and deception. They want to deprive the US of safe vaccines and good

04.12.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

suffered pain and loss. I feel nothing but contempt for Kennedy, his followers and the republican senators who set him lose.

02.12.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

die. It is inevitable that we will relive the horrible time before vaccines. How bad will it have to get before Kennedy’s crual madness and lies will be seen? Will the return of polio do it? I feel sorry for the parents who were confused by Kenney’s lies and

02.12.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

keep writing and protesting Kennedy’s atrocities, his endangering the health and lives of all of us, especially children. However, Kennedy’s influence and the effect of his misinformation is growing, many children will suffer from vaccine-preventable diseases, be perminately damaged or

02.12.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Advisory Comittee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) will meet 12/4-5. The committee used to be a stellar group of scientists and vaccine specialists. Now it is a cabal of RFKJr anti-vax cronies. It is likely they will fulfill Kenendy’s desire to further disable vaccinations in the US. I will

02.12.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Has Plainly Stated His Belief in the Falsehoods of AIDS Denialism | Defend Public Health In June 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told New York Magazine, "There are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS." This is blatantly false, contradicted by mountains of data and real-world ...

RFKJr continues to show his ignorance of health, science and infectious diseased. He endangers all of us. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

27.11.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Waning Immunity and Falling Vaccination Rates Fuel Pertussis Outbreaks - KFF Health News New details from health officials suggest the whooping-cough surge may be part of a national pattern driven by slipping vaccine coverage and waning immunity, with infants bearing the brunt of the cons...

to vaccinate if you care to keep your child from suffering.
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24.11.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

but antibiotic treatment must start very early in the infection otherwise it’s much less effective. But worse, antibiotic resistant strains are arising. So the antibiotic excuse for not vaccinating is not tenable. Really, it’s best

24.11.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

turning blue because they can’t draw a breath for coughing….picture the child suffocating. Vaccines stop this but someone who did their own You Tube research will say pertussis is treatable by antibiotics, it is a bacteria after all, so why vaccinate? Yes,

24.11.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWaning Immunity and Falling Vaccination Rates Fuel Pertussis (whooping cough) Outbreaks.”

As I have written before the rise the US is seeing in measles is a bellwether foretelling that other vaccine-preventable diseases will rise. So here we have the rise in whooping cough. Picture a wee child

24.11.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As crazy as it’s getting I fear the residents of the galaxy far far away are going to send the Vogons.

24.11.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

undeniable. It may take a year or two for the diseases to come back in force, but the shit will hit the fan.

07.11.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

indicator that the countries pandemic preparedness is not good. We can be certain that under this clueless administration, with Kennedy heading HHS, the US is woefully unprepared for epidemic or pandemic outbreaks, we won’t even be aware that it’s coming until it’s

07.11.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

deliberately eliminated the CDCs ability to track and report infectious diseases. Remember that rising numbers of vaccine-preventable diseases goes against his vaccine misinformation and lies. The US should/will lose its status of eliminating measles. The loss of this status is an

07.11.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

NYT article reporting that Canada is about to lose its status of eliminating measles. It says Canada has reported 5000 cases and the US 1700. But we can be certain that the US number is a gross underestimate, it’s probably 5 times higher at the least. This is because RFKJr has

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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Wants to Remove Aluminum from Vaccines and Endanger Americans' Health | Defend Public Health Aluminum, found naturally in many foods, is sometimes added as a salt in tiny quantities to vaccines as an immune booster. For years, Robert F. Kennedy has said that aluminum-containing vaccines cause...

RFKJr again and again endangers the health of all Americans
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05.11.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Science is not a popularity contest.

The leader of the United States Government’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Martin Kulldorff, should understand this.

Instead, he thinks that because RFK Jr. has β€œmany supporters”, scientists should listen to him.

30.10.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0
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Senate Must Reject Casey Means as Surgeon General, Defend Public Health Says | Defend Public Health With her confirmation hearing scheduled for this morning, Defend Public Health is urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General. Means is a β€œhealth influencer” with...

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30.10.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

birthday. These preventable diseases are out there and we are giving them a chance, indeed inviting them, to come forth. When this is past and sanity returns remember that the harm done to the innocents falls on the shoulders of this administration, RFKJr and his followers.

25.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

children are suffering, being perminantly damaged and dieing from preventable disease that so many thought no longer existed…when there is a dramatic increase in the number of children who never see their fifth

25.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. But we are in a political era that promotes anti-science and hostility. Unfortunately, there is another bellwether, that minds will change, people will start questioning when they realize how many

25.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

spread of anti-science and anti-vax misinformation and lies is so intense, and well funded, that many people are confused and frightened. Hence vaccine uptake is dropping. I and many colleagues have written much to counter the anti-vax movement and try to change minds

25.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

predictor that too few are vaccinated to contain the spread of the disease. This further predicts that other vaccine-preventable diseases will arise, as we are seeing with whooping cough and mumps…others will arise. Unfortunately, the

25.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

grew to include anything that is an indicator or predictor of something to come. A good example of a present day bellwether is measles. It is such a highly infectious disease that an uncontrolled outbreak, as we are presently seeing in the US, is a

25.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BELLWETHER. Bellwether is a word I’ve always liked. Originally bellwether is the name for the leading sheep of a flock, with a bell on its neck ( BTW, a wether is a castrated male sheep). But its meaning of being a lead

25.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In the next presidential election I want a candidate who commits to demolishing the ball room and restoring the White House to its former beauty, this includes the rose garden. Even better if it’s all done with donated funds. The restoration might also require an exorcist.

20.10.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

might think that would worry Republicans but instead they put out a childish AI video of Trump flying a plane dropping shit on the protesters.

19.10.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

7,000,000 came out all over the US to protest Trump. That’s 2% of the US population. And that’s not counting the many who were sympathetic but couldn’t come out. There were large protests in deep red areas. And 2,000,000 more came out in countries across the world. One

19.10.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Prince Andrew surrendered his Duke of York title because of his ties with Jeffery Epstein. I can think of someone who should surrender their presidential title for the same reason

17.10.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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