We are two health-care professionals who spent our careers intent on providing the very best health care we knew how to our patients based on the best scientific evidence available to us.
Immunizations with vaccines are a modern medical miracle. We have either eradicated, almost eradicated, or dramatically reduced the numbers of infants, children, and adults who either died or became seriously ill from a long list of infectious diseases such as smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), measles, mumps, rubella (German measles), polio, meningitis, HPV (causes cervical cancer), hepatitis A and B, chicken pox and shingles, rotavirus, Hemophilus type b, influenza, and most recently COVID.
Perhaps you’ve never heard of some of these diseases, and that is because of these vaccines and their efficacy. As soon as we let our guard down they can become resurgent as we are seeing now with measles and sometimes whooping cough. Polio is rebounding in third world countries because of funding cuts by this administration. Perhaps you are unconcerned about a child with polio in Africa. However, the more polio there, the greater likelihood of spread to the United States, and to your child if unvaccinated.
Recently science and health care research has come under attack by the Trump administration. Science and research should not be political. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s approval as secretary of Health and Human Services is a major step in this attack. Undermining the public’s trust in vaccines is reprehensible. His repeated false claims about measles vaccine causing autism are simply just that, false. This has been studied very extensively, and there simply is no link between measles vaccine and autism. Period. The initial study out of England many years ago showing a link was funded by a plaintiff’s lawyer for the researchers to set out to prove a link. That is not how good science is done. This study has been withdrawn and thoroughly rebuked, and the medical license of the principal investigator revoked.
Kennedy recently fired every one of the highly respected experts in infectious disease, epidemiology, public health and others that made up the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunizations. For years this committee (ACIP) has done its very best to evaluate all of the available science, safety and efficacy data to make the very best recommendations they can. RFK accuses these scientists of corruption. However, the committee is very careful to be open and transparent about any member with potential conflict with pharmaceutical companies, and a member is prohibited from voting if a conflict appears. The committee’s minutes are public record as are the studies used for recommendations. Countless physicians have used these ACIP recommendations with very high levels of confidence in their decision making for their patients.
Now RFK has replaced these highly regarded physicians and other experts with a panel containing members with a history of being anti vaxers (people who are totally against use of vaccines). These people are also against the newer mRNA vaccines (Covid vaccine as well as a very promising technology for other illnesses, such as bird flu). If we hamper research into bird flu vaccines, a current epidemic, our ability to respond to this and other future epidemics will be crippled.
We encourage you to listen to your trusted health-care providers.
Ronald Baars, Pharm.D, retired after 41 years at NCMC, Associate Professor of Pharmacy, University of Colorado School of Pharmacy. Kenneth Kaplan, MD., retired after 30 years as pediatrician in Greeley, Emeritus Staff, NCMC, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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