In The Politics of Autism, I analyze the myth that vaccines cause autism. This bogus idea can hurt people by allowing diseases to spread. Examples include measles, COVID, flu, and polio.
A number of posts discussed Trump's support for the discredited notion.
We’re also going to be recommending — not recommending, demanding — the drug companies, with respect to a certain situation, maybe you want to mention that, discuss it — that the autism, that they make their doses in 20% shots. So you have shot one, shot two, shot three, shot four, shot five.
So instead of having a massive dose of 82 or 88 different vaccines pumped into your own, we’ll take out certain vaccines that people are a little worried about — and that have not — I mean, we would never even think about the polio vaccine, it’s been amazing, and so many others that have been so good. But we’re going to break it into 20% doses so that instead of a child going in and having a tremendous amount of different vaccines pumped into so big a proportion of the body, and then they wake up the next day and they’ve got a 109 temperature, and then the worst thing happens that can happen to a parent. The worst, actually. And I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it happen.
So we’re going to recommend that they do five doses marked one, two, three, four, five, and that they’d be given in six month intervals so that a small amount of the vaccine gets pumped into the body. And we’re going to be splitting up some of the vaccines. You’ll get everything that they want, everything that is recommended. We’re going to go a little bit with some of the European system in terms of the vaccines, but the biggest thing is certain vaccines were taken out because they’re not needed until a child would be much older.
No reason to do it so early. But the vaccine size will be much, much less, and I think you’re going to see a massive reduction in autism, and that’s a big deal. That’s a very big deal. So we’re going to be recommending that and actually demanding it. You’re going to have one, two, three, four, five. It’ll be spread out over six months, every six months. They’ll be fully vaccinated in much smaller doses. So I think it’s going to have a huge impact, and you’ll see that in the years to come. You have to actually see it, but you’ll see it in the years to come.
Deidre McPhillips and Meg Tirrell at CNN:
Such a plan would render vaccines ineffective and wouldn’t make them safer, said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia...Trump’s idea to split up the shots “is buffoonery,” said Offit, a vaccine inventor. He noted that vaccines are studied extensively so their dosing schedule is optimized for efficacy and safety, and he said that reducing the amount administered and giving more shots would make it so the vaccines don’t work while doing nothing to increase safety.
“When you create a vaccine, you do a dose response curve, and you’re trying to give the least amount of vaccine that induces an immune response that’s protective. So you don’t want to give too much, where you know you don’t need all that, and you don’t want to give too little, where it’s you know sub-immunogenic,” meaning it wouldn’t induce an immune response. Put more simply, Offit told CNN, “What he’s suggesting would not work. He’s basically saying he wants to give vaccines in a manner in which they wouldn’t be protective.”
Offit also pointed out that vaccines don’t overwhelm babies’ immune systems, as they expose us to much less than we encounter every day naturally.\
“You make a billion new B and T cells every day to handle the onslaught of viruses and bacteria from your environment,” Offit said. “Vaccines are literally a drop in the ocean of what you encounter and manage every day.
“The notion that vaccines in any way are overwhelming your immune system, causing chronic disease, is just fanciful.”
