California Immunization Coalition

We are on a bullet train to the end of US science, and possibly the country as a whole, when political appointees are reviewing every scientific grant submitted to NIH to determine if The Regime finds the science acceptable.

AAP has been leading voice on childhood vaccine recommendations since 1930s The AAP has been at the forefront of providing evidence-based immunization guidance to help pediatricians protect children from vaccine-preventable illnesses for nearly a century.

The AAP has always been a leading voice in vaccine recommendations. We will continue to publish our own immunization schedule and make science-backed recommendations that pediatricians and families have trusted for decades.
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Parents: Ask for the #HPVvaccine at your child’s back-to-school doctor visit. The HPV vaccine is most effective when given to all children 9-12-years-old.

Learn more: cancer.org/hpv
#CaliforniaHPVFree
#caHPVvaxweek
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I would very much like the next person who interviews RFK Jr. to ask him for evidence to support this quote, and to not nod stupidly along with his response.

“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to whites, because their immune system is better than ours.”

Opinion: I fail to see the rationale for not supporting Gavi As a former head of an African state, I am acutely aware that falling short on funding Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance means children in Africa will die. I urge the world to continue supporting this initia...

Africa’s children need continued access to lifesaving vaccines. In Devex, President @jmkikwete makes the case for fully funding @gavi – and explains why the world can’t afford to fall short. www.devex.com/news/opinion...

Childhood vaccine exemption rates hit a record high, CDC data shows The percentage of unvaccinated kindergartners rose during the 2024-25 school year.

📈 A record 4.1% of kindergartners had vaccine exemptions last school year. That’s 138K kids at risk.

Let’s protect classrooms get #FirstDayVax ready. 🛡️📚
#NIAM2025

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Bill Gates says rising anti-vaccine sentiment in U.S. will exact heavy toll overseas Philanthropist Bill Gates expressed concern about the impact of growing U.S. vaccine skepticism overseas.

Bill Gates says rising anti-vaccine sentiment in U.S. will exact heavy toll overseas www.statnews.com/2025/08/04/b... via @statnews.com

Welcome to Dr. Alvania and congratulations to Marla Dalton, we'll write more another time, but for now, we want to thank you for being such a constant source of encouragement, creativity, professionalism and positivity. ❤️ ~cm

The Long Shadow of a Measles Infection They assumed my father’s cognitive function would never be normal, but it was actually his personality that changed.

As the world racks up measles outbreaks, there will be many sad and complicated stories to tell.

Natasha's dad just wasn't the same after his infection, and neither was her childhood. www.voicesforvaccines.org/the-long-sha...

Young people more prone to believe in conspiracies, research shows | CBC News People under the age of 35 are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories than other age groups, according to recent research out of the University of Ottawa.

Young people more prone to believe in conspiracies www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"...people younger than 35 are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories than other age groups"

@philofwrite.bsky.social: "That fear & perpetual sense of disaster can lead people to believe in conspiracy theories"

US childhood vaccination rate drops in 2024-25 school year Recent CDC data reveals a slight decline in US childhood vaccination rates from the 2023-24 to the 2024-25 school years, alongside a rise in non-medical exemptions. Continued misinformation surroundin...

US childhood vaccination rate drops in 2024-25 school year www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

Maurice Hilleman, The Man behind the Science - Vaccine Makers Project Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Dr. Maurice Hilleman, an American scientist born in 1919, is credited with saving 8 million lives every year. “Maurice Hilleman: The Man behind the Science,”

A fantastic tool for educators.

Full film on the Vaccine Makers Project YouTube channel:
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States, cities face loss of vaccination programs and staff after ‘baffling’ cuts to federal funding | CNN Millions of dollars have been pulled from state and local vaccination programs with no explanation after a review of the funding agreements by the US Department of Health and Human Services.

"If state vaccination programs are not adequately resourced, we’re just going to continue to fall further and further behind, and that sets the stage for things like measles and pertussis outbreaks, which we’re seeing.”
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Human Papillomavirus and Cancer | NEJM This Double Take video explores the link between certain strains of human papillomavirus and cancer and reviews the evidence behind the HPV vaccine, as well as who should receive it and when.

Human Papillomavirus and Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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US CDC cuts experts out of panels that develop vaccine policy, Bloomberg reports CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. External experts will no longer be included in the working groups of the CDC's A...

The U.S. CDC told physician groups, public health professionals and infectious disease experts that they will no longer be invited to help review vaccine data and develop recommendations, Bloomberg News reported on Thurs.

No more experts allowed.
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The Path Forward for Vaccine Policy in the United States | NEJM The former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices consider paths forward for U.S. vaccine policy in the wake of their dismissal by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in...

"The former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices consider paths forward for U.S. vaccine policy in the wake of their dismissal by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in June 2025"
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RFK Jr. warned about giving the government your data. Now he wants it. The Health and Human Services secretary's pivot on wearables is a case study in how conspiracy extremists rebrand themselves once in positions of power.

RFK Jr. used to warn about a government takeover of our data. He said wearables and their tech were part of a plot to surveil us, enabled tyranny, caused cancer, and turned users into “permanent consumers” to Big Tech.

Now, he'd like your data, please.
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Canada’s Measles Outbreak Exceeds Cases in the U.S.

Canada’s Measles Outbreak Exceeds Cases in the U.S. 🙁😥https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/canada/canada-alberta-measles-outbreak.html?smid=bs-share

KFF Health News: Fearing Medicaid Coverage Loss, Some Parents Rush To Vaccinate Their Kids KFF Health News: Fearing Medicaid Coverage Loss, Some Parents Rush To Vaccinate Their Kids

"“People should be worried about what’s going to happen to the availability of vaccines for children,” said Jennifer Tolbert, deputy director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at KFF...."
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From Dr. IDmom on TikTok: Vaccinate your family. It helps protect your family and those who cannot get vaccinated (due to age or immunocompromised status). #vaccinessavelives

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"The VICP routinely dismisses meritorious cases outright or drags them out for years. Instead of “quickly and fairly” awarding compensation, Special Masters dismiss over half of the cases. Most of those that proceed typically take 5+ years to resolve, with many languishing for more than 10 years as parents struggle to care for children suffering with often extreme disabilities. Petitioners’ attorneys complain that the Special Masters make punitive downward adjustments to attorneys’ fees and medical expert fees to punish effective advocacy. Expert witnesses for injured children complain that they suffer intimidation and even threats that they will lose professional status or NIH funding if they testify for injured children. The government pays its own medical expert witnesses promptly while simultaneously slow-walking payments for petitioners’ experts—sometimes for years. The VICP is broken, and I intend to fix it. I will not allow the VICP to continue to ignore its mandate and fail its mission of quickly and fairly compensating vaccine-injured individuals. I am grateful to be working with @AGPamBondi and HHS staff to fix the VISP. Together, we will steer the Vaccine Court back to its original Congressional intent. "

"The structure itself hobbles claimants. The defendant is HHS, not the vaccine makers; and claimants are therefore facing the monumental power and bottomless pockets of the U.S. government represented by the Department of Justice. Furthermore, most of the Special Masters come from government, legal, or political posts, and typically display an extreme bias that favors the government side. There is no discovery, and the rules of evidence do not apply. The government lawyers do not allow children’s attorneys access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a taxpayer-funded CDC surveillance system that houses the best data on vaccine injuries. Attorney compensation is in the hands of notoriously biased Special Masters and often hostile government attorneys, who can leverage this power to turn petitioner attorneys against their clients' interests. The VICP routinely dismisses meritorious cases outright or drags them out for years. Instead of “quickly and fairly” awarding compensation, Special Masters dismiss over half of the cases. Most of those that proceed typically take 5+ years to resolve, with many languishing for more than 10 years as parents struggle to care for children suffering with often extreme disabilities. Petitioners’ attorneys complain that the Special Masters make punitive downward adjustments to attorneys’ fees and medical expert fees to punish effective advocacy. Expert witnesses for injured children complain that they suffer intimidation and even threats that they will lose professional status or NIH funding if they testify for injured children. The government pays its own medical expert witnesses promptly while simultaneously slow-walking payments for petitioners’ experts—sometimes for years. The VICP is broken, and I intend to fix it. I will not allow the VICP to continue to ignore its mandate and fail its mission of quickly and fairly compensating vaccine-injured individuals."

"The 1986 Vaccine Act gave vaccine makers immunity against lawsuits by children who suffer vaccine injuries. The statute, and numerous subsequent court decisions, recognized that vaccines, like all medicines, are, in the words of the American Academy of Pediatrics case, “unavoidably unsafe,” and that a percentage of vaccinated children will suffer injuries or death. Congress, therefore, simultaneously created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which obliged HHS to compensate injured children. In the words of then Labor and Public Welfare Committee Chairman Senator Edward Kennedy, “when ... children are the victims of an appropriate and rational national policy, a compassionate [g]overnment will assist them in their hour of need.” Under the VICP, vaccine victims can petition for compensation to the so-called “Vaccine Court,” which pays out awards from a trust fund endowed by a 75-cent surcharge on every vaccine. Congress intended that injured children be compensated “quickly and fairly” for injuries, “either presumed or proven to be causally connected to vaccines,” with doubts about causation resolved in favor of the victim. To date, the Vaccine Court has paid out $5.4 billion to 12,000 petitioners. But the VICP no longer functions to achieve its Congressional intent. Instead, the VICP has devolved into a morass of inefficiency, favoritism, and outright corruption as government lawyers and the Special Masters who serve as Vaccine Court judges prioritize the solvency of the HHS Trust Fund, over their duty to compensate victims. The structure itself hobbles claimants. The defendant is HHS, not the vaccine makers; and claimants are therefore facing the monumental power and bottomless pockets of the U.S. government represented by the Department of Justice. Furthermore, most of the Special Masters come from government, legal, or political posts, and typically display an extreme bias that favors the government side. There is no discovery, and "

Secretary Kennedy posted a lengthy tweet about vaccine court. As is common, he misrepresented the facts in his claims. A thread.

Here are his claims - screenshot and text below. x.com/SecKennedy/s... 1/n

Welp, he’s doing it. RFK Jr. is going to dismantle VICP. He posted a string of lies about it on his Twitter account and now the next wave of destruction begins.

This is an accurate characterization.

I’ve been following Hooker’s antivax antics since 2014, when he and Andrew Wakefield birthed the “CDC whistleblower” conspiracy theory, which ultimately formed the basis for Wakefield’s 2016 propaganda conspiracy-fest film disguised as a documentary, VAXXED.

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows, NPR writes
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CDC says COVID-related emergency room visits climbing especially among young children CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook joins "CBS Mornings" to talk about the CDC's latest alert showing a rise in COVID cases nationwide and the highest rate of ER visits for young kids ...

COVID cases growing in at least 27 states
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Vaccines prevent A LOT of diseases. The time to find out whether you’re protected against all of them is before you’re exposed to one. That’s as easy as calling your doctor’s office. You don’t have to assume you’re immune. #VaccinateIndiana

Vaccine Shortages. Viral Outbreaks. Widespread Illness. More Death. This could be America’s future if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues his rampage against public health—and it may arrive much sooner than you think.

Vaccine Shortages. Viral Outbreaks. Widespread Illness. More Death. newrepublic.com/article/1967... via @newrepublic.com

As RFK Jr. pushes to limit vaccines, MMR pioneer defends their lifesaving power For decades, one of the world’s most contagious diseases was considered eradicated in the U.S. But now measles is roaring back.

As RFK Jr. pushes to limit vaccines, MMR pioneer defends their lifesaving power: Dr. Stanley Plotkin worked for decades to save lives, and now explains why vaccines matter. www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/07/s...

Before vaccines, we used to close schools during #polio outbreaks & watch children suffer through dangerous #measles infections.

Let’s protect the progress we’ve made. This back-to-school season, make sure your family is up to date on vaccinations for the #FirstDayVax.

#VaxYourFam

Serese Marotta - @vaxyourfam.bsky.social - terrific work today. 💕 you honor your son and all of us with your advocacy.