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COVID 2.0? New RSV Shots Are Already Harming Babies
If, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed last week, the “vaccine” is causing so many problems with infants, why are we giving this shot to anyone? I might not be a doctor, but as early as January 2022 — 16 months before the approval of the first RSV vaccine — I warned that these shots could make children sicker from the virus.
For decades, the industry failed to produce an RSV vaccine after an attempt in 1967 was terminated because it caused antibody-dependent disease enhancement. Now, amid ongoing problems with the first RSV vaccines from Pfizer and GSK, the FDA is acknowledging that Moderna’s mRNA version is causing severe RSV cases in children. It’s time for the incoming Department of Health and Human Services, along with state officials, to pull the plug on both RSV shots and mRNA vaccines of all kinds.
RFK Jr. Is Against Fluoride in Your Drinking Water. New Jersey Is, Too.
Water fluoridation was controversial in New Jersey long before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said if given the power he would take steps to strip it from public water. New Jersey has a reputation for being at the forefront of public health initiatives, but it’s behind when it comes to endorsing the long-standing public health practice of community water fluoridation. In fact, New Jersey has the second lowest fluoridation rate in America, ranking 49 out of 50 states, behind Hawaii, according to the latest rankings.
Only 16% of the state’s population has access to water fluoridated at the federally recommended levels, significantly below the national average of 73%, according to America’s Health Rankings from the United Health Foundation. Of the half dozen dental professional and public policy experts interviewed by NJ Advance Media, none could say exactly why water fluoridation has never taken off in New Jersey.
Cases of Whooping Cough Growing, but Knowledge About It Is Lacking
Following a several-year lull during the pandemic, cases of whooping cough are increasing across the U.S. As of Nov. 30, early U.S. data show over 28,000 cases reported this year, or six times as many as in the same period in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Whooping cough or pertussis, a highly contagious bacterial infection of the respiratory tract, was one of the most common childhood diseases in the 20th century and a major cause of childhood mortality, according to the CDC. Until a pertussis vaccine became available in the 1940s, over 200,000 cases were reported annually, the CDC says.
As cases rise, a nationally representative panel survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania finds that many in the public are not familiar with symptoms of the disease. Almost a third of respondents (30%) are not sure if pertussis is the same as whooping cough (it is) and not sure (30%) whether a vaccine exists to prevent it (it does).
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If You’ve Got Children, You Need to Watch Swiped — and See How Sick Their Phones Are Making Them
Every parent of a school-age child should watch “Swiped,” the Channel 4 documentary on smartphones shown last week. It was devastating. It told of an Essex secondary school’s experiment in response to what it saw as a rise in anxiety and stress among its 11-year-olds. A group of them agreed to surrender their phones for three weeks.
The parents’ stories were familiar — of children unable to make eye contact with adults, no longer chatting with ease, spending hours alone and staying awake into the small hours. Some spent five, six, even nine hours a day on their phones. They made “friends” with total strangers, received hate mail, suffered panic attacks, went from normal to self-harm. Surveys claim a quarter of British 11-year-olds have now watched online pornography. One child died in tragic circumstances closely linked to their social media use.
Most US Teens Still Use TikTok Daily as Ban Looms
With a TikTok ban in the U.S. looking more and more likely, a new report from Pew Research on teen social media use underscores just how influential the app is among its youngest users. Not only is it one of the most-used social media services by teens, 57% of 13 to 17-year-olds scroll TikTok every single day, Pew reports.
The report underscores the impact a ban would have on teens. 63% of teens report “ever” using the app, while 57% say they log on at least once a day. TikTok also has the highest percentage of teens reporting that they use the service “almost constantly,” with 16%. A little more than a third report checking the app “several times a day.”
Pew’s report arrives as TikTok is running out of options to avoid a ban in the U.S. The company lost its initial legal challenge to a law requiring that parent company ByteDance sell the app or face a total ban in the country. TikTok has asked the courts for a temporary delay of the law, which is currently scheduled to take effect Jan. 19, while it looks to take its next appeal to the Supreme Court.
Tax Junk-Food to Lengthen Children’s Lives, UK Chief Medical Officer Says
Lack of available healthy food in cities combined with junk food advertising is setting children up to live “shorter and unhealthier” lives, England’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty has said in his annual report, which suggests a tax on junk food to improve the health of the urban poor. The wide-ranging report into the urban landscape and public health, released on Thursday, urges the government to do more to tackle what Whitty terms “healthy food deserts” in cities, which the report finds is a major cause of unhealthy eating.
Whitty, who became a well-known and controversial figure during the COVID-19 lockdown era, also points to the cost of food as a key factor impacting poorer people the most, finding that per calorie, healthy food “is almost twice as expensive as unhealthy food.” Children and families in inner city areas are less likely to have access to healthy, affordable food choices in local shops, restaurants, and takeaways, and are “disproportionately exposed to unhealthy food advertising,” the 430-page report finds.
