NYT-Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum (gift subscription) [View all]

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The president’s call for removal of the metal from childhood inoculations set off alarms. About half of shots for polio, whooping cough and other diseases would be affected.

Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/h... there is more naturally occurring aluminum in our bodies and in our foods then in the vaccine, 💉 they haven’t the foggy idea what they’re doing they’re gonna kill us all.

— Adrienne (@skybird75.bsky.social) 2025-10-15T19:59:19.648Z

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Federal health officials are examining the feasibility of taking aluminum salts out of vaccines, a prospect that vaccine experts said would wipe out about half of the nation’s supply of childhood inoculations and affect shots that protect against whooping cough, polio and deadly flu.

The review at the Food and Drug Administration began after President Trump listed aluminum in vaccines as harmful during a press briefing about the unproven link between Tylenol and autism.

Aluminum salts have been in vaccines since the 1920s and are added to enhance the immune-stimulating effect against the virus or bacteria covered by the inoculation. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, has been a longtime critic of aluminum in vaccines, which he has suggested is linked to autism.

Vaccine experts said the tiny amount of aluminum salts in vaccines — often measured in the one-millionth of a gram — has a long track record of safety and is essential to generating lasting immunity from disease. Developing vaccines without aluminum salts, they said, would require an entirely new formulation from scratch......

Companies that make childhood vaccines include Merck, Pfizer, GSK and Sanofi. Representatives from some companies said the aluminum adjuvants, or immune boosters, have a well-understood safety record. Replacements would be novel and need to be evaluated one by one against pathogens for each covered disease, wiping out the use of combination shots that cover several diseases.

Several company representatives said they had not heard from federal health officials on the matter.