Greetings all,
Sharing an op ed piece that will be published to my local paper this week. Hoping it will inspire experts to similarly explain to a confused public how the republican party, by installing a charlatan to head the HHS, has shredded our public health infrastructure.
It’s statistics 101: that association is not evidence of causation – “the rooster’s crowing does not cause the sun to rise.”
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) collects adverse health events that occur after vaccination. The system lacks an unvaccinated comparison group, which is essential for determining a cause-and-effect relationship. The system cannot account for the same events that might also occur by chance in an unvaccinated population.
More than 13 billion doses of COVID vaccine have been administered worldwide. A report to VAERS does not mean the vaccine caused an adverse event, only that it occurred sometime after vaccination. The causal link of vaccines to cancer, autism, (pick an ailment) hasn’t been found as RFK Jr. claims, a man with no science expertise who is now in charge of public health thanks to Donald Trump’s nomination and his orders to republican representative in Congress – many of whom know better, but fear opposing a president, who promises retribution - even if the grounds for opposition is to protect public health.