The Agency did exactly what big Pharma wanted, using groupthink instead of insisting on data for their recommendations. Will incoming CDC director Mandy Cohen be different?
I have no use for Public Health. It is all about money and politics. I know a young woman who had been through Covid19 twice, and she wanted to get pregnant. As there was no real data on the vaccine's effects on pregnancy, she made an informed decision to not get vaccinated. Her family from the North would not let her go to an important family party. These same people in the North still don't believe that natural immunity is as good or better than a vaccine. There is so much bad fallout from these bad policies.
Dr Makary - I love the work you do and also devoured your book The Price We Pay - extraordinary work. I spent my entire 37 career working for pharma (big and small) directly with FDA and it wasn’t until about 3 yrs ago when FDA approved the useless Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm that I lost faith - everything that’s happened since has disgusted me. I place most of the blame on FDA but also CDC as they hold the power to make recommendations that are followed by the vast majority of sheep physicians. Thank you for bringing all of these issues to light.
Thank you for all your good work spreading truths about the mRNA drugs and the value of natural immunity. However, I believe it to be crucial that we stop calling these drugs “vaccines”; they are genetic drugs and should have needed to have been approved under the standards required for drug approval rather than the more safety-lax vaccine standard. Consider the following:
1. There was, and is, a fraudulent and clever psychology involved in calling these pharmaceutical genetic drugs “vaccines”. In the minds of the masses that make up the world population, calling these drugs “vaccines” attaches an undeserved innocence to their novel and experimental origin, and has inspired a naive confidence in their acceptance, safety, and effectiveness based upon historical experience with conventional vaccines such as smallpox, polio, MMR, and DPT. We should know the dose - duration - distribution - complications of every FDA approved drug.
2. Ask yourself “what is the dose received by the recipients of these shots?”. Most would answer approx. 30 or 90 mcg (Pfizer of Moderna). But the real answer is “who knows?”. All prior vaccines provide a known dose of viral protein to which the body immunologically reacts. The mRNA drugs are a “pro-drug” that captures a person’s cellular machinery to produce a Covid viral-type protein (the spike) that stimulates a variable antibody response. Production and quality variability (the drugs are manufactured in multiple labs around the globe) and handling difficulty (extremely cold temperature required or the drug degrades) probably explains the presence of clinical response and complication rate variability in the various drug “lots”. Bottom line: there is no dosage standard here.
3. What is the duration of action? We were told “just a few days” but spike protein produced in response to the genetic drugs have been demonstrated weeks to months post injection.
4. What is the drug distribution? We were told it stays in the shoulder like previous vaccines. Not true! It goes everywhere - liver, spleen, ovaries, testes, heart, and crosses the blood-brain barrier.
The pharmacokinetics of these drugs are understood by too few physicians who have not looked beyond the term “vaccine”. The educational process should begin by calling them what they are: genetic drugs.
The CDC, like many health institutions, has lost a substantial chunk of its “moral authority” in the public’s eyes in the last few years. And trust, once lost, is difficult to regain. So that is an unenviable task for the new incoming chief. Let’s hope their future recommendations are less hubris / more nuance….cuz pretending to know it all wasn’t a good look, and has aged poorly.
Spot on Dr. Makary! People need to be living in a cave or just blindly following groupthink (sadly, many do), to trust in the FDA and pharma. You reminded me of how many concerns were swept under the rug. And the fact that many of these concerns we were told not to worry about, then became an issue, well, that says it all.
Perhaps giving too much credit to some to imagine that they would engage in this conversation honestly. While past behavior is not a perfect guide, surely it is the best one we have
The connection between commercialism and Feminism(tm), post-COVID, is out in the light for any thinking person to see.
The women's rights movement is one of the most commercially exploited political movements in history, selling women an empty sense of autonomy all the while continuing to degrade the long-term health of women, push half-assed science as The Science, and brutally ignoring the claims of women who are the victims of these and other (profitable) medical procedures.
The 1900s and 2000s will be seen as "progress" for women's rights and in many ways it is. However, there are many problems that were the same as in the 1940s as in 2023. The only thing that has changed is better commercially-validating science and more toxic and virulent lies about how much progress has been made.
If progress is measured by adherence to the truth and following basic Hippocratic principles, this is a complete joke. However, if progress is measured by the amount of money being made and the amount of women gaslighting other women for not cheerleading such "progress", then I guess we've made quite a bit.
The most important step that must next occur is a detailed nonpartisan “morbidity and mortality conference” on all aspects of how this “public health emergency” was handled. Without it we are doomed to repeat our mistakes. Unfortunately there is no current leader who has the integrity to do this.
One point I've not seen before is the assertion that "the vaccine is safer than the disease". This is a mathematical fallacy, comparing the simple probability of the risk of untoward outcome for those getting the vaccine vs the risk of an untoward effect for those those not getting the vaccine AND contracting the disease. The public health people compare a simple probability vs a conditional probability, either out of ignorance or manipulation. Yet another reason to distrust the CDC.
I am a Family Physician with a very small patient load and proportionately few pregnant patients, about 2 or 3 at any given time. (I mention this because of the extremely small denominator.) Back in the first months of the covid vaccine rollout (winter-spring 2021), one of my completely healthy, low-risk pregnant patients decided to get the vaccine after much worried discussion with her Ob. They decided that it would be safest to wait a few weeks and get the vaccine in the second half of the pregnancy, about week 22 and 25. Three weeks after the second dose she lost her baby for no apparent reason. I immediately made a report to VAERS. This was with extra urgency because the vaccine was so new and I felt this tragic outcome was very important. The post-mortem exam showed no problems anywhere except the placenta was riddled with microthrombi. No evidence of covid by the mom or in the post-mortem.
VAERS was exceptionally unresponsive to my report and follow-up report on the post-mortem. A full year later, I finally had a response from VAERS. Due to my insistence that I talk to a doctor at the CDC, I had two calls with vaccine experts. At the time (June 2022), I was astonished to learn that there were about 50 reported late pregnancy losses in VAERS. They also stated that the delay was because VAERS was swamped with reports -- from supposedly safe covid vaccines. I had my say, but knew that it was a dead end. This was way too late to have an impact.
My experience is consistent with the pattern of non-transparency from the CDC, and obstructionism as outlined by Dr Makary, I have lost all confidence in the CDC.
I have no use for Public Health. It is all about money and politics. I know a young woman who had been through Covid19 twice, and she wanted to get pregnant. As there was no real data on the vaccine's effects on pregnancy, she made an informed decision to not get vaccinated. Her family from the North would not let her go to an important family party. These same people in the North still don't believe that natural immunity is as good or better than a vaccine. There is so much bad fallout from these bad policies.
So America has gone from science and data to group think when making decisions.
Today Jimmy Dore gives the published proof that Ms. Walensky was bare-faced lying to the public, and continued lying in her recent hearing;
Watch;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agJRcvq6sk0
Dr Makary - I love the work you do and also devoured your book The Price We Pay - extraordinary work. I spent my entire 37 career working for pharma (big and small) directly with FDA and it wasn’t until about 3 yrs ago when FDA approved the useless Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm that I lost faith - everything that’s happened since has disgusted me. I place most of the blame on FDA but also CDC as they hold the power to make recommendations that are followed by the vast majority of sheep physicians. Thank you for bringing all of these issues to light.
Dr. Makary,
Thank you for all your good work spreading truths about the mRNA drugs and the value of natural immunity. However, I believe it to be crucial that we stop calling these drugs “vaccines”; they are genetic drugs and should have needed to have been approved under the standards required for drug approval rather than the more safety-lax vaccine standard. Consider the following:
1. There was, and is, a fraudulent and clever psychology involved in calling these pharmaceutical genetic drugs “vaccines”. In the minds of the masses that make up the world population, calling these drugs “vaccines” attaches an undeserved innocence to their novel and experimental origin, and has inspired a naive confidence in their acceptance, safety, and effectiveness based upon historical experience with conventional vaccines such as smallpox, polio, MMR, and DPT. We should know the dose - duration - distribution - complications of every FDA approved drug.
2. Ask yourself “what is the dose received by the recipients of these shots?”. Most would answer approx. 30 or 90 mcg (Pfizer of Moderna). But the real answer is “who knows?”. All prior vaccines provide a known dose of viral protein to which the body immunologically reacts. The mRNA drugs are a “pro-drug” that captures a person’s cellular machinery to produce a Covid viral-type protein (the spike) that stimulates a variable antibody response. Production and quality variability (the drugs are manufactured in multiple labs around the globe) and handling difficulty (extremely cold temperature required or the drug degrades) probably explains the presence of clinical response and complication rate variability in the various drug “lots”. Bottom line: there is no dosage standard here.
3. What is the duration of action? We were told “just a few days” but spike protein produced in response to the genetic drugs have been demonstrated weeks to months post injection.
4. What is the drug distribution? We were told it stays in the shoulder like previous vaccines. Not true! It goes everywhere - liver, spleen, ovaries, testes, heart, and crosses the blood-brain barrier.
The pharmacokinetics of these drugs are understood by too few physicians who have not looked beyond the term “vaccine”. The educational process should begin by calling them what they are: genetic drugs.
For a deeper understanding, refer to my substack article https://jackcaskinsmd.substack.com/p/the-duplicitous-design-of-dose-distribution
i've learned that for every anti-vaxxer this is a corresponding vaccine zealot. Beware of both.
The CDC, like many health institutions, has lost a substantial chunk of its “moral authority” in the public’s eyes in the last few years. And trust, once lost, is difficult to regain. So that is an unenviable task for the new incoming chief. Let’s hope their future recommendations are less hubris / more nuance….cuz pretending to know it all wasn’t a good look, and has aged poorly.
Spot on Dr. Makary! People need to be living in a cave or just blindly following groupthink (sadly, many do), to trust in the FDA and pharma. You reminded me of how many concerns were swept under the rug. And the fact that many of these concerns we were told not to worry about, then became an issue, well, that says it all.
Perhaps giving too much credit to some to imagine that they would engage in this conversation honestly. While past behavior is not a perfect guide, surely it is the best one we have
Substack for Naomi Wolf: Pfizer, FDA, Dr Walensky Knew Fetuses, Babies Died" had an interesting opinion on this topic as well.
Another home-run, Dr Makary!
The connection between commercialism and Feminism(tm), post-COVID, is out in the light for any thinking person to see.
The women's rights movement is one of the most commercially exploited political movements in history, selling women an empty sense of autonomy all the while continuing to degrade the long-term health of women, push half-assed science as The Science, and brutally ignoring the claims of women who are the victims of these and other (profitable) medical procedures.
The 1900s and 2000s will be seen as "progress" for women's rights and in many ways it is. However, there are many problems that were the same as in the 1940s as in 2023. The only thing that has changed is better commercially-validating science and more toxic and virulent lies about how much progress has been made.
If progress is measured by adherence to the truth and following basic Hippocratic principles, this is a complete joke. However, if progress is measured by the amount of money being made and the amount of women gaslighting other women for not cheerleading such "progress", then I guess we've made quite a bit.
The most important step that must next occur is a detailed nonpartisan “morbidity and mortality conference” on all aspects of how this “public health emergency” was handled. Without it we are doomed to repeat our mistakes. Unfortunately there is no current leader who has the integrity to do this.
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One point I've not seen before is the assertion that "the vaccine is safer than the disease". This is a mathematical fallacy, comparing the simple probability of the risk of untoward outcome for those getting the vaccine vs the risk of an untoward effect for those those not getting the vaccine AND contracting the disease. The public health people compare a simple probability vs a conditional probability, either out of ignorance or manipulation. Yet another reason to distrust the CDC.
Here's my anecdote on this very important topic:
I am a Family Physician with a very small patient load and proportionately few pregnant patients, about 2 or 3 at any given time. (I mention this because of the extremely small denominator.) Back in the first months of the covid vaccine rollout (winter-spring 2021), one of my completely healthy, low-risk pregnant patients decided to get the vaccine after much worried discussion with her Ob. They decided that it would be safest to wait a few weeks and get the vaccine in the second half of the pregnancy, about week 22 and 25. Three weeks after the second dose she lost her baby for no apparent reason. I immediately made a report to VAERS. This was with extra urgency because the vaccine was so new and I felt this tragic outcome was very important. The post-mortem exam showed no problems anywhere except the placenta was riddled with microthrombi. No evidence of covid by the mom or in the post-mortem.
VAERS was exceptionally unresponsive to my report and follow-up report on the post-mortem. A full year later, I finally had a response from VAERS. Due to my insistence that I talk to a doctor at the CDC, I had two calls with vaccine experts. At the time (June 2022), I was astonished to learn that there were about 50 reported late pregnancy losses in VAERS. They also stated that the delay was because VAERS was swamped with reports -- from supposedly safe covid vaccines. I had my say, but knew that it was a dead end. This was way too late to have an impact.
My experience is consistent with the pattern of non-transparency from the CDC, and obstructionism as outlined by Dr Makary, I have lost all confidence in the CDC.