ROF Responds to the Corporate Medias Anti-Vaxxer Attack on RFK, Jr.

[arithia]

57. *sigh*

The link you provided last night had the meat of the study behind a pay wall. I tried. Repeatedly. It kept telling me to pay for the document or sign in through my subscribing organization no matter what I clicked on. If I missed a free version off that study, please feel free to link it here in response. I'm always up for a good read.

Your bullet points state that the data is reassuring. Thimerosal is still used in vaccines in children outside the US and they haven't been able to determine at what minimum level it becomes toxic, in part, because it is flushed by the body so quickly. The WHO is suggesting that future studies could use these populations to compare and contrast with populations that don't use Thimerosal in children's vaccines, like we no longer do here in the US.

It isn't a condemnation of the use. It's a suggestion for further study by comparing these populations, along with possible help from animal testing.

Other studies done for VAERS, which are available as links from the cdc website about pregnant women and the flu vaccine, show no patterns of adverse health outcomes for women who get a flu shot during pregnancy. You mentioned the pertussis vaccine earlier as another one given during pregnancy- that one contains no thimerosal. At all. I could find no diagnostic guidelines on which flu shot delivery method (single dose vs multi-vial) was prescribed for pregnant women beyond don't give em the nasal spray.

Bottom line, preggers women in the US might not be getting Thimerosal at all during these vaccines, making your point rather moot.