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A (0:09)
Calling, announcing an overhaul of the nation's childhood vaccine schedule. Another one that's going to mean fewer recommendation recommended shots for all children, effective immediately.
B (0:20)
It looks like in terms of the shots that were no longer going to be or will be recommended by the cdc, just had the list here. Rotavirus, Covid flu, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and the shot for bacterial meningitis. Those are the ones that now they're saying will be part of a shared decision making construct between say a pediatrician and in parents for their children.
A (0:43)
So we've seen the CDC already pull back recommendations on other shots. What has the result been and what's the likely result of this?
B (0:52)
Well, I think what you're going to see in this paradigm, this framework comparison to Denmark just doesn't apply. You know, Denmark, just to say it for our audience, very low child poverty rates. They have universal health healthcare with no cost barriers, smaller gaps between high and lower income families. And so what does that mean to your question? There's less of a delay between diagnosis and treatment if they do have an infectious disease. Let's take hepatitis B since that's now part of the shared decision making construct. Katie, Hepatitis B in a place like Denmark, you can test a pregnant mom right before birth and if they need, if they have a positive test, you can vaccinate them. That does not work. Here in the United States, we've already peeling back recommendations on hepatitis B within the first 24 hours of birth. We know, Katie, that if you wait to test and then vaccinate, say in the case of a pregnant mom about to give birth to her baby, that doesn't work. You have a lot of delays in testing. You have a high burden of preventable illness when it comes to hepatitis B in their children. We've tried that. It just does not work. So we're going to see the same with flu.
C (1:56)
Flu.
B (1:56)
We're already in the midst of a bad flu season, Katie. Tens of thousands of hospitalizations amongst kids. They have bacterial meningitis. Now on this list we have 3,000 cases of that in the United States. What's going to happen again? This is going, this is going to decrease vaccine competence, more burden on providers, not what we need right now.
C (2:15)
Okay, Monday the 5th of January, year of our Lord 2026. Rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? A year of decision, I might add. I want to bring in Zen Honeycutt. So a monumental. And we've covered this for years now with the Children's Health Defense and Claire Dooley, the filmmaker. All these great people have Worked on this. Huge supporters of Bobby Kennedy from the beginning, had him on the show about Fauci. This day was always talked about coming. It's a historic day. Zen Honeycutt from Moms Across America, one of the activists that has driven this MSNBC and by the way, my production team, I want to get the Kramer live today. When MSNBC started trading as, I don't know, Versant or they're piled into a dog's breakfast of cable. As you know, cable's not the streaming's the new hot thing. That's why we stream here at Rural America's Voice. Cable is kind of an old system. And so they're on live and the stock plummets 7% while Kramer's sitting there talking about it. And you see right there the clip. Zen, they're not particularly enthusiastic about what you worked on. They're not particularly enthusiastic about this new schedule. So can you address that? What exactly technically happened? Why is this so important? And why do they have, why does, why does Katie Tur and her guests have the long faces today, ma'? Am?
