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Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activis<\/strong>t and conspiracy theorist whom President-elect Donald Trump has nominated to serve as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RFK Jr. distinguishs himself with assertions that vaccines cause autism. COVID may have been a \u201cplandemic\u201d\u2014one designed to spare Jews and Chinese people. The government is using 5G networks to \u201ccontrol our behavior.\u201d WiFi is making us unhealthy. The FDA is waging a \u201cwar on public health.\u201d HIV doesn\u2019t cause AIDS. and just in : RFK Jr.has expressed a strong belief in the existence of \u201cchemtrails.\u201d(Google it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facts on the efficacy of vaccines <\/p>the Lancet<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Vaccines<\/strong>
In a study published this year in the Lancet<\/em>, researchers used statistical modeling to estimate the impact of vaccines against 14 common pathogens in the past 50 years. The scientists determined that vaccines saved 154 million lives since 1974<\/a>\u2014at a rate of six lives every minute. Of those saved lives, 95 percent of which were children under five years old. The same estimates showed that vaccines have cut infant mortality by 40 percent globally, and by more than 50 percent in Africa. The smallpox vaccine totally eradicated the illness in 1977. And other severe illnesses like polio, measles and rubella are eliminated in some countries, or at record lows globally. In all of human history, vaccines have saved more lives than almost any other intervention. First line of defense:<\/strong> Vaccines are usually the primary line of public health defense in communities with no health care. Poverty, malnutrition, underlying health conditions, overcrowding, human conflict, displacement, and lack of access to medical care, hygiene or sanitation\u2014all of these are risk factors for infectious disease, says Kate O\u2019Brien, director of the WHO\u2019s immunization, vaccines and biologicals department. Vaccines reduce disease in these settings and free up health care resources for other public health projects. Vaccines also reduce disability and long-term morbidity, and prevent loss of labor and the death of caretakers.What the experts say:<\/strong> \u201cWe say vaccines are one of humanity\u2019s great achievements in terms of having furthered the lifespan and life quality for humanity in the past 50 years,\u201d says Aur\u00e9lia Nguyen, chief program officer at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Deaths averted since 1974<\/strong>:
Measles: 93,712,000
Tetanus: 27,955,000
Pertussis: 13,155,000
Tuberculosis: 10,902,000
Haemophilus influenzae<\/em> type B (HiB): 2,858,000
Poliomyelitis: 1,570,000<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Jen Christiansen (styling); Source: \u201cContribution of Vaccination to Improved Survival and Health: Modelling 50 Years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization,\u201d by Andrew J. Shattock et al., in Lancet<\/em>, Vol. 403; May 25, 2024<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Court Painter seen with dramatic versions of RFK Junior<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist whom President-elect Donald Trump has nominated to serve as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.  RFK Jr. distinguishs himself with assertions that vaccines cause autism. COVID may have been a \u201cplandemic\u201d\u2014one … Continue reading “RFK Jr. & those pesky vaccine facts…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27773"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30787,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773\/revisions\/30787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}