Paul Offit
Pediatrician and infectious-disease specialist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq. Writes the Beyond the Noise newsletter on vaccines and US health policy.
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Their wordsIn the right hands, AI is a powerful tool for providing accurate, up-to-date, science-based answers to questions.
↗RFK Jr., AI, and “Medical Experts”pauloffit.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIn the wrong hands, such as our current federal government leaders, it isn't.
↗RFK Jr., AI, and “Medical Experts”pauloffit.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsAnti-vaccine activists have now turned to religion to further their war against vaccines, which has caused more hospitalizations and deaths from measles, influenza, and whooping cough than we have seen in decades.
↗Irreligious Actspauloffit.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsDue to Del Bigtree's efforts, more children in Mississippi are now forced to suffer preventable illnesses.
↗Irreligious Actspauloffit.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsFirst, it's not the number of vaccines that matter, it's the number of immunological components in the vaccines; specifically, bacterial proteins, bacterial polysaccharides, and viral proteins.
↗President Trump’s Childhood Vaccine Schedulepauloffit.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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The use of the phrase "peer nations" in the context of vaccine recommendations is non-sensical.
Their wordsSecond, Trump's use of the phrase "peer nations" was non-sensical. Different developed world countries make different decisions based on demographics, health system capacity, vaccine access, and vaccine cost.
↗President Trump’s Childhood Vaccine Schedulepauloffit.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
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Package inserts are legal communication documents rather than medical communication documents.
Their wordsPackage inserts are not medical communication documents; they're legal communication documents.
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsA recent Instagram post by a pediatrician showed that the damage caused by the anti-vaccine movement isn't limited to outbreaks of preventable infections.
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThanks to RFK Jr., during the past year, American children have suffered and died from preventable diseases like measles, whooping cough, and influenza at rates greater than have been seen in decades.
↗How to Be an Effective Anti-Vaccine Activistpauloffit.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThis is definitely an escalation of this administration's undermining of CDC science,
↗How to Be an Effective Anti-Vaccine Activistpauloffit.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece