“RFK Jr. Links His Vocal Issues to Flu Shots”, screams the medical press headline. Not true. Just more evil and lies from the masters team of evil and lies (Big Pharma and their cronies).
What RFK jr. actually said was it was “a possibility”. He told USA Today that his spasmodic dysphonia “could be” due to taking flu shots. That’s cautious. That’s responsible. He stated in an interview that he took annual flu shots until the mid-1990s, then stopped in 2005 “when I began looking at the side effects.”
“I was preparing litigation against some of the flu shots several years ago and one of the entries that was listed on a lot of them was spasmodic dysphonia, which is an injury I have to my voice. That’s why my voice is so screwed up.” “
Do I know it was caused by the annual flu shot? I have no idea.”
When pressed by the interviewer, who asked if he suspected it was caused by the vaccine, he said it’s “a possibility.”
“It’s a potential culprit that I cannot rule out, but I can’t prove it,” he said. “I’d like to know. We should have that data but we don’t.”
MedPage Today flunkeys round on him again with a supposed analysis of the package inserts for the most popular flu vaccines showed that “none of them listed spasmodic dysphonia — or laryngeal dystonia, an alternative name for the condition — as a side effect.”
Of course what they omit is that the warning WAS on the package inserts. It’s been removed.
Only one flu shot, FluLaval, listed “dysphonia” as a potential respiratory symptom, but this shot was approved in 2006, after Kennedy said he stopped taking flu shots. Of course this is tricky wording to make RFK look stupid or mistaken. But to me they shoot themselves in the foot. If this type of vaccine is shown to definitely cause spasmodic dysphonia, then it makes it very likely that the one RFK was subjected to would also cause the condition.
They’ve just covered it up, as they do.
That great conman Paul Offit, MD, of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who co-invented a rotavirus vaccine, takes a different line. He said package inserts typically mention any side effect that came up in a clinical trial, even if it was later shown not to be tied to the vaccine.
“Package inserts … are written by lawyers at companies in collaboration with lawyers at the FDA, and they fall under the general rubric of ‘failure to warn,'” Offit said. “They want to make sure that anything that was reported in the vaccinated group gets reported as a possible cause, even if it occurs at the same level in the placebo group.”
I doubt most honest or scientifically-minded doctors would declare the package inserts as bogus or misleading!
And guess what? When Offit’s own rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq® was in trial there were nine seizures in the vaccine group and two in the placebo group, “which was statistically significant.” Very significant. That should have stopped the product right there… but it didn’t of course. Too much money invested in development.
But once that vaccine was rolled out and given to millions of people,” claims Offit, “…You saw the incidence was the same in both groups.” Wonderful isn’t it, how cleverly drug manufacturers cause problem to simply disappear.
There are in fact many side-effects of RotaTeq®, most of them mild, like tummy upsets. But there are some very serious life-threatening problems, notably intussusception. This is a bowel obstruction where one part of the intestine literally “telescopes” (slides inside) into another. It’s not common but there is an increased risk after rotavirus vaccines, concentrated mostly in the first week (or up to ~21 days) after the first dose.
Also serious are sudden episodic severe abdominal pain/crying, vomiting, blood in stool (“currant jelly” stool), marked lethargy. If those show up after vaccination, clinicians generally want the baby assessed urgently. It rapidly becomes fatal.
More controversially Kawasaki disease was reported after RotaTeq® in post-marketing experience (so it appears in manufacturer safety language and labeling summaries).
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a rare, acute illness causing vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels), primarily affecting children under 5. It is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in developed countries, characterized by persistent high fever (?5 days), rash, red eyes, swollen hands/feet, and strawberry tongue.
When researchers have looked systematically, reviews generally find low incidence and no convincing association, while also noting the need for large datasets. As I said, Big Pharma has this convenient way of making problems disappear and become “unproven” (by their own standards of course).
And there is another not-to-be-discussed problem, which is that live vaccines (RotaTeq® is live) will inevitably shed pathogens on the population and cause a lot of collateral sickness. Of course they consider that part of the price to pay, an entitlement of theirs, to make the population “safe”. The trouble is, children who are immune-compromized, through no fault of their own, are thrown under the bus.
I’m not saying all this so much as to attack Offit (a man I revile) but to show the hypocrisy and double-science they use to try and discredit anyone who stands in the way of their obscene profits. Every statement of Kennedy’s is opposed, taken apart and supposedly discredited, because they want him out of the way. Otherwise he’s going to derail the gravy train and we’ll end up with healthy people again!
Do I need to remind you how bad things are? The USA in 2024 spent $5.3 trillion on health care, which works out to $15,474 per person, and is 18.0% of GDP. Yet we are currently tabled at about 46th (males), 47th (females) in terms of overall health (the global health index). Indeed, various healthy life expectancy (HALE) analyses show the U.S. has declined sharply in global standing, with some research suggesting it has fallen into the 60s or lower for healthy life years compared with world peers.
In fact when it comes to “years lived with disability”, THERE ARE ONLY SIX COUNTRIES BEHIND US IN THE WORLD TABLE (204 countries).
Put another way, every dollar spent on the US Big Pharma healthcare system means more death and damage to the population. We are BUYING death and disability!
Go Bobby, go!
To your good health,
Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby
The Official Alternative Doctor
References:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2024, December 20). Rotavirus Vaccine Safety. CDC.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (2022). Package Insert — RotaTeq (Rotavirus Vaccine, Live, Oral, Pentavalent). FDA.
Vesikari, T., Matson, D. O., Dennehy, P., Van Damme, P., Santosham, M., Rodriguez, Z., … Heaton, P. M. (2006). Safety and efficacy of a pentavalent human–bovine (WC3) reassortant rotavirus vaccine. The New England Journal of Medicine, 354(1), 23–33.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2007). Postmarketing monitoring of intussusception after RotaTeq vaccination—United States, February 1, 2006–February 15, 2007. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
World Health Organization, Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety. (n.d.). Rotavirus vaccines and intussusception. WHO.
Patel, N. C., Hertel, P. M., Estes, M. K., De la Morena, M., Petru, A. M., Noroski, L. M., … Chinen, J. (2010). Vaccine-acquired rotavirus in infants with severe combined immunodeficiency. The New England Journal of Medicine, 362(4), 314–319.
Mellone, N. G., & Carvalho, A. P. (2019). Kawasaki disease and the use of the rotavirus vaccine in children: A systematic review. Revista Paulista de Pediatria.
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