“For my mother, her love and affection and care as a parent was used to push an agenda to create a false distress. And these sources, which spread misinformation, should be the primary concern of the American people,” Lindenberger said at the hearing.
has confirmed 206 cases of measles in 11 states. Almost all of the cases are unvaccinated children.
At Tuesday's hearing, McCullers, a pediatrician, called childhood vaccine programs “the most powerful public health initiative in the history of this country.”“I’m not here to say ‘don’t vaccinate your kids.’ I believe the benefits of vaccines greatly outweigh the risks, but I still do not favor giving up on liberty for a false sense of security,” he said.
Tuesday's advisory panel urged the federal leadership to bolster misinformation campaigns and increase vaccine safety research to ameliorate mistrust that has become all too common. “We need sustained funding, we are asking that you increase prevention budget to the CDC by 22 percent by 2022,” Washington health official Weisman said. “We need federal leadership for a national vaccine campaign that counters the anti-vaccine campaign similar to the
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