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JCM keeps serving up lovely breakfasts, and I am very thankful. Big news this morning: RFK Jr. Axes ALL Funding For Bill Gates’ Global ‘Vaccine Alliance’ The article quotes the Washington Post: The United States will halt its contributions to Gavi, the global alliance that works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries, said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday — a move that public health experts said would have deadly consequences. Kennedy, who has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation [sigh--VX], announced the decision in video remarks made to a Gavi summit in Brussels, during which he accused the group of neglecting “the key issue of vaccine safety.”… In his remarks, Kennedy cited a study linking the DTP vaccine — for diphtheria,a highly contagious bacterial infection that kills 5 to 10 percent of those affected, as well as tetanus and pertussis — to increased child mortality. Kennedy also said Gavi should “consider the best science available,” and “re-earn the public trust."
What did said study say?
In the 1980s, the suburb Bandim in the capital of Guinea-Bissau was followed with demographic surveillance and tri-monthly weighing sessions for children under 3 years of age. From June 1981, routine vaccinations were offered at the weighing sessions. We calculated mortality hazard ratio (HR) for DTP-vaccinated and DTP-unvaccinated children aged 6–35 months… Though lower mortality compared with not being DTP-vaccinated was… expected, DTP vaccination was associated with a non-significant trend in the opposite direction… . Although having better nutritional status and being protected against three infections, 6–35 months old DTP-vaccinated children tended to have higher mortality than DTP-unvaccinated children. All studies of the introduction of DTP have found increased overall mortality.
No causal link was listed, so this could be an anomaly, but there is no interest in doing the proper studies to compare vaxxed versus untaxed patients on ethical grounds. I totally understand that, but if we have people who are already members of each study group, how is it unethical to simply follow their health and track the results? But GAVI has some serious issues besides Gates and his ego: The Geneva-based COVAX was the vaccine pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A). By the end of September 2021, COVAX had delivered over 319 million vaccines, which was about 16% of its original end-of-year goal of two billion doses.8 When African leaders wanted to buy COVID-19 vaccines at the peak of the pandemic, vaccine hoarding by HICs relegated African countries to the uncertainties of donations.9 COVAX ultimately failed to achieve the goal of ensuring that people in LMICs had timely and equitable access to vaccines against COVID-19.10 11 Gavi, the vaccine alliance that purchased COVID-19 vaccines in the ACT-A construct, has not publicly and fully addressed questions about a financial imbroglio arising from its deals with pharmaceutical companies for shots it no longer needs.12 Accountable leadership would embrace the facts of COVAX’s failure, learn from them and commit to doing demonstrably better. But the Gavi leadership did the opposite and brazenly claimed that it had developed ‘a blueprint of how to deliver vaccines at scale in an emergency to low-income countries’.13 That detachment from reality compounded a blunder by WHO’s Special Envoy for the ACT-A, who claimed not to understand why some stakeholders might feel excluded from a review of ACT-A... .
And it also seems odd that back in 2016 Saudi Arabia gave money to GAVI that was then used in....Yemen. I can't easily find a list of all the issues with GAVI because Google just wants to float up the positive articles, but I've heard of issues with GAVI for many years. I'm rather glad RFK Jr. did this.
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JCM
6/22/2025 6:46:43 PM
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Kosh's Shadow
6/27/2025 11:06:44 AM