As vacinas do calendário infantil norte-americano foram testadas durante décadas em ensaios controlados envolvendo milhões de participantes, e são constantemente monitoradas quanto à sua segurança. Apesar disso, autoridades de saúde - lideradas pelo secretário do Departamento de Saúde e Serviços Humanos, o negacionista Robert F. Kennedy Jr (foto acima) - reduziram de 17 para 11 o número de vacinas recomendadas no país. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

Robert Kennedy Jr. destrói calendário de vacinação infantil dos EUA, ignorando décadas de segurança e eficácia

Em uma medida sem precedentes, as autoridades de saúde americanas reduziram o número de vacinas rotineiramente recomendadas para crianças no país de 17 para 11
Children today receive more vaccines than children did in the past, but due to advances in vaccine technology, today’s shots contain far fewer immune-stimulating molecules. SDI Productions/iStock via Getty Images Plus

RFK Jr. wants to scrutinize the vaccine schedule – but its safety record is already decades long

Federal officials are questioning the safety of the vaccine series children receive. Here’s the story of how the childhood vaccine schedule came about.
Public health experts worry that factually inaccurate statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threaten the public’s confidence in vaccines. Andrew HarnikGetty Images

I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong

The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.

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