The many dozens of “safe and effective” vaccines that children in the United States typically receive after birth have saved hundreds of millions of them from illness and death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a new report that experts are calling “laughable.”
The CDC’s latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) claims that routine childhood vaccinations for things like measles, diphtheria, tetanus, and hepatitis B have prevented more than half a billion cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and precisely 1,129,000 deaths over the past roughly 30 years.
The federal public health agency is also claiming responsibility for allegedly saving U.S. taxpayers $540 billion in direct costs, as well as $2.7 trillion in indirect social costs, with its longtime childhood vaccination program.
The corporate media is parroting the CDC’s claims as a “testament to the success” of childhood vaccination in America. Experts like Toby Rogers, PhD, a fellow at the Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research, however, say otherwise.
“The methods are shoddy, the data are untethered from reality and the conclusions are a preposterous fiction,” Roberts told The Defender, a project of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense (CHD). “This study is an advertisement on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry and it should be treated as such.”
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