Tag: childhood vaccination

Confidence in Childhood Vaccine Dips by 44 Percent During COVID-19

A new report on immunisation suggests that confidence in childhood vaccines has fallen up to 44 percent in 52 countries coinciding with the largest sustained backslide in childhood immunization in 30 years, fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. The only three countries where vaccine confidence remained steady were China, India, and Mexico. The data from these…


Parents Need to Know: Are Your Children Over-Vaccinated?

For many parents, there is something deeply satisfying about taking a baby, especially a firstborn, to the doctor. After all, so-called “well baby” visits give parents the opportunity to talk to an expert about a child’s development, ask burning questions about when the baby will be able to sit up without assistance and what to…


Ontario Public Health Units Press Province for More Stable Funding

Ontario’s public health units are calling on the government to stop using one-time funding to bridge a gap it created four years ago, and to provide them with a predictable source of money as they address a backlog of services built up over the COVID-19 pandemic. Premier Doug Ford’s government announced in 2019 it was…


In Vaccines We No Longer Trust, and Why That’s a Good Thing

In a recent article in Nature, freelance writer Michael Einstein reports that vaccination rates are falling—and not just because people are refusing the COVID-19 vaccines.  Indeed, global vaccine rates are at their lowest since 2008. The World Health Organization calls this the “largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in approximately 30 years.” The draconian lockdowns…


ACIP Votes to Add COVID-19 Injections to the Childhood Schedule

The ACIP voted to add the COVID-19 injections to the childhood schedule, which determines what vaccines a state mandates for children to attend school. Main stream media is pretending that states determine what vaccines are used, but the truth is that pediatricians use the CDC schedule and state public health officials use this schedule. State…


Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism. Trust Us

Commentary Autism, once so rare that it afflicted just one person in 10,000, now afflicts one child in 30, according to a new study in JAMA Pediatrics. In boys, who are especially susceptible to autism, the rate is one in 22, or almost 5 percent. No one can be sure of the causes, we’re often told, although the…


Health Agencies Warn of ‘Child Survival Crisis’ as Childhood Vaccination Rates Sink

Global health agencies have issued a “red alert” on children’s health as trends like rapidly rising rates of severe malnutrition and COVID-19 disruptions have combined to drive down childhood vaccination levels to their lowest in decades. The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, the United Nations-affiliated children’s charity, jointly said on July 15 that the world…