We're gonna restrict access to the Hep B vaccine?

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CDC advisers delay vote on restricting infant hepatitis B vaccinations in tense meeting

From 1990 to 2019, reported cases of acute hepatitis B among kids declined by 99% due to infant immunization

In the unprecedented meeting, the vaccine advisers debated restricting access to the hepatitis B vaccine for infants – a significant step toward limiting safe and effective shots given for decades.

No new evidence on harms from the vaccine, which has been given to 1.4 billion people for more than three decades with a stellar safety record, was presented at the meeting. The shot is currently available at birth for all infants.

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Why?

What is going on?

First the MMR vaccines, now this?

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You folks will notice that the ones who will bitch about this, didn’t have a Hep B injection as an infant, and are alive to bitch about this. :wink:

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Reducing a deadly incurable disease by 99% is a good thing. Why would we want to back track on that?

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Usually when people give examples of survivor bias they don’t use literal examples. :joy:

The people who died aren’t around to bitch about it.

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0.0044% of the United States population contracts Hep B every year, so every kid should get entirely too vaccinated, entirely too early. :rofl:

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No way an infant should be subjected to a hep B injection!

No telling what that could possibly do to them.

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What would the harm be?

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If only we had a population of tens of millions of people to see what it could possibly do to them…

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99.9956% of everyone in the United States will NOT contract Hep B this year. Maybe we should start poking infants with more and more drugs because nothing bad will ever happen. :rofl:

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Lack of necessity. There is absolutely zero reason to have it be part of the package. While hep b is contagious the primary form of infection is sex

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Each year somewhere between dozens and hundreds of children in the US were infected prior to the vaccine.

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There’s no possible way that people are more informed now than before they ever had internet. :wink:

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I spit out my (non-alcoholic) beer. :joy:

The internet is going to make us all smarter, more informed citizens!***

(***1995 called)

(also I don’t care if someone decides not to get the Hep B vaccine for their child)

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Everyone’s dumber since 1990, so there’s no way any of them know how to prevent catching a preventable virus. None of us who went to school in the 90’s or later were given extensive classes on these matters. Infants will catch Hep B left and right from the ghetto to the top of suburbia without these shots. :rofl:

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1.4 billion people have received the hep b vaccine with no ill effects.

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Do you think this latest report has any bearing on this? Maybe they’re considering both the good and the bad, prior to requiring this vaccine be used on our children?

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Uh, huh…and it wasn’t a lie that the Pfizer COVID vaccine had a 95% efficacy as they advertised prior to the mass outbreak, worldwide? Did it?

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First of all, we are talking about the Hep B vaccine and not the COVID vaccine.

Secondly, from your own link:

The memo, which has not been peer-reviewed, does not appear to specify how the FDA came to its conclusion that the vaccine caused the deaths of the children. It only states that “initial analysis” of 96 deaths between 2021 and 2024 concluding that “no fewer than 10 are related.”

A memo, not a presented study.
A very small sample size.
No data or analysis presented to back up how they came to this conclusion.

Hmm…

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We’re discussing faith in a system that is flawed and could cost you your life for following their guidelines.

Let me ask you two simple questions; did the Pfizer vaccine have a 95% efficacy against COVID? By taking the shot, did it assure everyone that took it would not get COVID as the POTUS Joe Biden stated?

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Question for you before proceeding with the first question…what is your background in statistics and mathematics in general?

Would you know how to apply them to a study of a vaccinated and unvaccinated population to determine the efficacy rate?

The answer to your second question is no vaccine is 100% effective and so why would anyone be assured that if they took the vax, they wouldn’t get COVID?