In this episode Dr. Offit discusses Project 2025 and its blueprint for eliminating the CDC as a recommending body for all vaccines.
The COVID pandemic provided an opportunity for anti-vaccine activists to expand their misinformation campaign. Who funds them?
Anti-vaccine activism has never had a particular political affiliation, but during the COVID pandemic, people were much more likely to be hospitalized and die from COVID if they lived in heavily red counties than in heavily blue counties.
On March 1, 2024, the CDC issued revised guidelines for COVID isolation, stated that those with COVID can return to normal activities if symptoms are improving and fever, if present, has been gone for at least 24 hours; and boosting, stating that people 65 years of age or older should now receive an additional dose of the 2023-2024 COVID vaccine.
COVID vaccines were first available in December 2020, but one phrase used to describe an early outbreak confused the public about what COVID vaccines could or couldn’t do: Breakthrough Infections.