On January 05, 2024, this Pharma Propaganda outlet published a video interview with Dr. Paul Offit, professional academic pediatrician and vaccine shill, in which he states a series of falsehoods in continuation of the gaslighting and falsehoods which both he and Dr. Peter Marks (FDA/CBER) are becoming known for.
Lets take a look at the transcript of this series of falsehoods.
First off, starting with the title, is Paul Offit actually a vaccine expert? What have his contributions actually been? Well, he self-identifies as the co-inventor of a licensed rotavirus vaccine (one of many, and not the first), and has received significant royalties from that. I should say currently licensed rotavirus vaccine, because there was a prior rotavirus vaccine (RotaShield – Wyeth) which was associated with an intolerable level of a clinical syndrome called “intussusception.”
If you know horses, you can think of intussusception as sort of like colic, but most often happening in children. More precisely, intussusception is a condition in which one segment of intestine “telescopes” inside of another, causing an intestinal obstruction (blockage). For some reason, rotavirus vaccines are associated with intussusception. It can be life threatening. The previously licensed rotavirus vaccine had a slightly higher rate of intussusception than the current one associated with Dr. Paul Offit (and Dr. H. Fred Clark, the senior of the two researchers).
This essay details the events surrounding the RotaShield withdrawal, including the role of Offit when participating in the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the CDC. Basically, all US children are required to take either Offit’s vaccine or a competing similar live attenuated virus product. According to the CDC:
There is also a small risk of intussusception from rotavirus vaccination, usually within a week after the first or second dose. This additional risk is estimated to range from about 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 100,000 US infants who get rotavirus vaccine.
There are about 3.66 million births per year in the US, so that means between 36 to 180 cases of life-threatening intussusception in the US per year due to mandated administration of this product.
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