Concern about Weldon’s vaccine reasons for withdrawn nomination

Dave Weldon was President Trump’s choice to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But only 12 hours before his hearing of the senate confirmation was told him that the nomination was drawn. There was two-part opposition against his candidacy based on his vaccines-saving views. And so the White House believed that Weldon did not have enough voices to be confirmed.

Weldon’s position on vaccines is more or less with secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy, who seems to be preparing the CDC for changes in vaccine policy. Weldon has long been considered a vaccine-skeptic and is a practicing doctor and a former congress. He has repeatedly Increased questions About the safety of measles, mumps, rubella and human papillomavirus vaccines. It is this constant controversy who seems to have nominated the hope of Nixed Weldon to be nominated the next head of the CDC, but somehow did not undo the confirmation of Kennedy.

The CDC does much more than just vaccine policy. But the issue of the recommended planning of immunisations is perhaps more visible to the public than his other work. In particular, the CDC is responsible for giving recommendations to the public about when and how vaccines that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This includes publishing the adults of the United States and childhood Immunization schedules These guidelines on age (s) when vaccines have to be given, the number of recommended doses, timing of doses and other information.

Together with the HHS secretary, the CDC director has a considerable influence with regard to vaccine policy. The director makes decisions about whether a vaccine should be recommended to the public. Advice distributed by the Agency is not binding on states and local jurisdictions that require vaccination for school children and in some cases determine health workers and patients or residents of healthcare institutions. But negative guidelines of the CDC can influence insurance coverage because insurers are only obliged to cover vaccines recommended by the agency.

Weldon has said that he is simply interested in ‘vaccine safety’. At first glance, some of his statements are strictly focused on tackling observed safety problems, while it does not necessarily undermine vaccines. Introduction of the vaccine Safety and Public Confidence Act in 2007 as a representative in the congress, he stated: “I am a doctor. I understand the importance of immunisations in protecting children and the public in general against infectious diseases. As a society we benefit from vaccines and as such it is important that we carefully vaccinate safety research to guarantee its objectivity. And in one public declaration During the withdrawn nomination, Weldon writes that he “gives hundreds of vaccines every year in my medical practice.”

The account The Weldon sponsored in 2007 tried to undo what he saw as a conflict of interest that CDC entailed, both a promoter of vaccines and an evaluator of their safety. According to Weldon, vaccine safety investigation under the auspices of an independent division or agency should be within the Ministry of HHS at the time.

He also introduced one Legislation That same year that would be limited that vaccines can receive with Thimerosal, a preservative that is used to prevent germination. Theoretically, Thimerosal’s Ethyl wake base could lead to mercury poisoning in high doses. However, the additive has not been used in vaccines since 1999.

But what the scales may have tipped against the potential confirmation of Weldon is his constant avid defense of the (former) gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield. Weldon has repeatedly stirred controversy by a link Between the MMR shot and autism, with reference to the disadvantable theories of Wakefield. As such, the views of Weldon are one Cause In the community of public health.

The overwhelming positive effectiveness of vaccines is not doubtful in regular medicine. The World Health Organization estimates Those global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 plus years.

Despite an abundance of proof of the opposite, Weldon is convinced that vaccines cause autism. On the age of three and a half public declaration At the withdrawal of his nomination, he devotes more than a page to defending Wakefield and colleagues.

Although Weldon claims to be only interested in determining and communicating the safety risks of vaccine, strengthening the very small risks at the expense of the known benefits at a time of an extension of the measles that started in Texas. Emphasizing the need to further investigate the safety of vaccine can arouse doubts in the heads of parents that are considering vaccinating their children, which leads to more vaccine hesitation.

Strangely enough, Weldon (and other vaccine conceptics) also plays the fault of ‘Big Pharma’, with the help of the term in a negative light seven times in his written statement yesterday. Yet historical vaccines only have one 2% Of the total income from the drug industry, with only a handful of large pharmaceutical companies that dominate the market. Vaccin development and production have a relatively high costs of market implementation and generally yield lower profit compared to other pharmaceutical products.

Whether the withdrawal of the nomination of Weldon is a victory for vaccines depends on who Trump nominates and how much influence Kennedy exerts as the boss of the CDC director.