Unethical child risks
In another striking assault on public health, Dr. Kirk Milhoan, the new head of the Advisory Committee on Immunization practices who was recently appointed by Secretary RFK, Jr., has recommended that both measles and polio vaccines be voluntary and not required for children to attend school.
Dr. Milhoan, a pediatrician, stated that the risk of polio is not the same as in previous years because our sanitation is improved, and that should be considered against the risk of taking the vaccine. Sorry Doctor, but we already know the risks. The risks of getting a serious complication from the polio vaccine are miniscule compared to the consequences of potentially contracting polio. Depending on the virus type, contracting the paralytic form polio is between 1:200 cases to 1:3,000 cases in people who contract polio. The risk of a serious reactions from the oral polio vaccine is 1:2.4 million, the inactivated vaccine 1:1 million.
He also suggested that deaths from the current measles outbreaks, “would be helpful for understanding disease risk.” This is akin to proposing a biological experiment on children to see how many unvaccinated children need hospitalization and how many will die. Unfortunately, we do not need this type of unethical and immoral experimentation on children to know how many will die or need hospitalization. We have enough data from those years before we had the vaccine to completely understand the horror.
It is shocking to have a member of the CDC’s ACIP even hint that we should learn more about the incidence of mortality and hospitalization from measles by observing many more cases resulting from a policy that lowers rates of immunization.