Trump quietly closed the U.S.'s vaccine safety office last year. Researchers are scrambling to replace it.
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Trump quietly closed the U.S.'s vaccine safety office last year. Researchers are scrambling to replace it.
Developers will start rolling out their COVID-19 vaccines in the coming months, leaving U.S. health officials to test their long-term safety. But that won't be easy, especially given that the Trump administration quietly shut down the office responsible for ensuring the safety of vaccines last year, The New York Times reports .
Before the late 1980s, vaccine safety relied on parents, doctors, vaccine makers, and hospitals to step forward and report symptoms they feared were connected to a vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention then worked out a new system that sought out clusters of symptoms among people who receive a vaccine, and expanded that oversight during the H1N1 epidemic of 2009. This system helped the U.S. figure out which symptoms actually popped up long after a vaccine was injected, and which were just coincidental.
But in 2019, the National Vaccine Program Office was shut down in an effort to cut costs and "eliminate program redundancies," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar wrote at the time. The shortsightedness of that shutdown has come into clear view amid the coronavirus pandemic, said Dr. Nicole Lurie, who who was assistant secretary for preparedness and response at HHS during the 2009 pandemic. FDA and CDC staffers have reportedly been meeting up on their own time to cobble some safety projects together. "There's no sort of active coordination to bring all the information together," Lurie told the Times .
Other vaccine experts and political scientists have their own concerns: foreign disinformation campaigns, a lack of transparency, proper communications to clear up health issues unrelated to vaccines, to name a few. A coordinated vaccine office would be tasked with handling all of that. Read more at The New York Times .
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For Christs' Sake, this incompetent fucking moron 'president' is doing/has done everything possible to fuck up the handling of this deadly virus.
Just like this fucking moron 'president' disbanding the Pandemic Response Unit.
But,,,but,,,it was supposed to just disappear, like a miracle.
I do not understand or know. However. Trump has done many questionable things during his 'tenure' that have cost American lives, American International Prestige, American Treasure, American Cohesion, American Economic Security and most importantly, Stability for the American people. I can not help but wonder if the driving force for many if not all of these actions are grounded in what we do not know that was discussed, agreed to and promised at The Helsinki Conference.
Boy, is that ever stretching it.
Is it? Or are you afraid to know?
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I take your conspiracy theory as seriously as I take Alex Jones.
So... We now know of TWO entities that would have been very useful against the pandemic... but that Trump eliminated...
He has consistently done less than the least possible. He has been downright cooperative with the virus
At what point do we begin to wonder if he actively sabotaged America?
Workin' for good buddy Kim?
Yesterday the US recorded over 80,000 new COVID cases the most ever.
MAGA, Make America a Graveyard Again.
It strikes me as funny that people still read the New York Times headlines and think they are truthful. A paragraph in the piece from the Times in the seed is
So the office wasn't closed, it was merged with another office in the hopes of strengthening the operation of it. But hey, don't let something like that get in the way of hating on Trump.
That section carries air-quotes. These days, when a "HHS spokesperson" says something, we can safely assume that it's garbage. Like "White House spokesperson" or "DoJ spokesperson". Any "Trump Administration spokesperson".
When will this current administration reconsider the probability that we need a "full-service" vaccine department "just in time" operation? I mean, it's supposedly coming out in a matter of days, weeks, or months - depending on whom is writing, speaking, or in discussions.
Like we trust what anyone in this criminal enterprise of an administration says?
I will not take a vaccine approved by Trump. He lies about everything, and as such I cannot trust in any way shape or form the word of a government agency which he holds sway over.
Trump's incessant lies have brought America to this place. We cannot have confidence in anything he does - or any of his Administration.