Greetings! Sorry to disappoint everyone who was waiting for a 2 day extravaganza of me and the great Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS taking on play-by-play responsibilities for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Wednesday with The Save America Movement. ACIP is, once again, postponed on account of federal judge Brian Murphy deciding to stay the appointment of all thirteen ACIP members appointed since Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. took the reins of the department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Even better, this decision reverses every one of Kennedy’s spectacularly shitty vaccine decisions including the move to clinical decision making, as well as ACIP’s descheduling of thimerosal, the MMRV, and the HBV birth dose. The vaccine schedule was just instantly reversed to June 2025, which was when it was untouched by Bobby Morbillivirus and his putrescent roadkill-smeared fingers.
Though ACIP is mercifully postponed for now, there is a strong possibility these clowns won’t stay silent for long. Robert Malone has been unravelling for the past 8 hours on Substack and the hellsite. It was fun to join an update call from the American Academy of Pediatrics’ attorneys and watch the evidence of Malone’s degraded grasp on reality accumulate in real time in the form of dissociative tweets and ChatGPT legal analysis of his status as greatest incremental 1990s transfection experiment doer ever (what he calls “inventing mRNA vaccines”).
There are also long-term issues with vaccine access because of ACIP’s normal function. ACIP is critical for determining insurance coverage of vaccines. Insurers have pledged to cover vaccines through 2026, but after? Any new vaccine—including updated flu and COVID shots and new uses for existing vaccines like RSV expanding to a new age group—requires an ACIP recommendation to be eligible for reimbursement and programs like Vaccines for Children (VFC), which provides vaccines for low income or uninsured kids. If ACIP is unable to recommend anything because it doesn’t meet or is too incompetent to do anything, then millions will still lose access to vaccines. The future of ACIP is still critically important, and unfortunately this ruling doesn’t reverse the damage that has already been done.
I’ve been a bit under the weather as of late and have been advised by my doctors that sleep and rest are mandatory for defeating anti-science fascists without incurring a potentially lethal injury. I’ve started to think of this as the Rasmussen Protocol (hey, all the anti-vaxxers call taking ivermectin an eponymous “protocol” so I might as well do the same) for preventing anti-vaccine injury. So as a result I have to call this for tonight and get my mandatory cardiovascular beauty rest, but we have a lot more to tell you.
Our newsletter, the MAHA Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMMWR), is out tomorrow and WEDNESDAY we will have a more organized and comprehensive show unpacking everything you need to know about this. We’ve got you covered!
Also we are deeply sorry to disappoint everyone who expects us to competently produce our own show! Wednesday we will have it together, we promise!
