One more suggestion: Release all CDC records related to vaccine studies. This would include those that were alleged by an agency whistleblower to have shown a strong connection between the MMR vaccine and autism in black boys.
And I know this isn't your area of interest or concern, BUT, I hope he puts private health insurers under a microscope. The WSJ has been doing fantastic investigative reporting on how UHC and others are fleecing the taxpayers by 'upcoding' patients via 'free home visits', which allows them to collect more $$$ per patient, regardless of whether the newly found diseases/conditions are actually treated. MedPAC (oversight committee) puts out a report each year, and the most recent says that that MA plans (run by private industry) cost taxpayers 22% more than traditional Medicare. "Payments to MA plans are an estimated 22 percent higher than FFS spending for 2024" https://www.medpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar24_MedPAC_Report_To_Congress_SEC-2.pdf
What worries me is that RFK made the statement during his hearing that 'I have Medicare Advantage and I love it, but not everyone has that, because it's more expensive'. The truth is actually the opposite...MA plans are cheaper (for the individual) versus traditional Medicare + a supplemental plan. This topic needs to be watched very closely.
every year my humana people call to schedule a "home visit" and i tell them to put my name on the do not call list. i'm perfectly capable of taking my blood pressure and getting on a scale. if they asked me the date of my last mammogram, i would say that i haven't had my first one yet and they'd just flag me as being behind on all my tests and shots.
it is my strong belief that a person in good health can best keep it that way by avoiding all voluntary contact with the medical establishment and when i do choose to visit a healthcare professional, i only go to ones who don't take insurance, although medicare may cover some blood work costs.
the democratic senators made a very big deal of RFKjr confusing medicare and medicaid and you're right, my advantage plan does reduce my "share" by $105 a month, although i bet the government bumps up my "share" to compensate for that.
before i aged into medicare, i had a consult with a firm that explains how it works to people. it was a long telephone call and i took notes. when i hung up, i didn't understand it any better than i did before the call. it's meant to be opaque.
Nehmut Oz is purportedly an advocate for MA. MA needs some review and tweaking after 20 years. The modifications need to be based what the data reveals and not the capriciousness of the previous administration.
And let’s use better pandemic management strategies like the GBD and use risk stratification tools like Covid-age.com to focus protection on the high risk. Sweden has the lowest all cause excess mortality, we must learn the best strategies to reduce all cause harms.
You may be a critical thinker but you still need to be educated.
Vaccines do reduce transmission but only for a month or two. In addition they protected against death and hospitalization. I’m not sure what they do now. It would be nice to see some decent studies. But I digress.
The protection of the elderly was an absurd idea. The only way to protect them was to reduce the amount of virus in the community. GBD never came up with a good idea as to how to protect the elderly.
Masks did become a political issue. Cochrane pretty much showed minimal if any benefit from community masking. A motivated person will have decent protection with a well fitted N95.
I talked to a major hotelier CEO Sarah Holtz on March 6, 2020 about making her Magnolia Hotels available to be either Covid free to hide from the virus or Covid convalescent to recover away from family and close contacts so not to spread to them, she was already doing the convalescent part and would have done this for all her hotels nation wide and would have charged only cost to keep the doors open, she said many other hotel chains would do the same. As the GBD made clear, we had sufficient means to ‘focus protection’ on the high risk or high COVIDAge as COVID-Age.com describes. You Daniel need to do more research on the potential to protect the high risk while letting young healthy populations go about schooling and working and getting natural immunity. Natural immunity being a stronger and more durable form of immunity so offering better protection as a ‘buffer’ to further viral spread to the high risk who could have ‘hidden’ from the virus more effectively this way. In addition, not vaccinating the low risk gives fewer opportunities for the virus to evolve immune escape and therefore makes the vaccine more effective for longer in the high risk cohort. Lockdowns were the worst of all possible actions we could have taken, most especially school closures.
I don’t get it. Who would go to these hotels? Which of the elderly? Who would feed them? Who would care for them? I think the odds of getting any hospitals involved would be slim.
The GBD did not make it clear that we had the sufficient means to protect the elderly.
Natural immunity has not been shown to be more efficacious than vaccine immunity.
Your statement about not vaccinating the low risk giving fewer opportunities for the virus to evolve is considered unproven and wrong by almost all virologists in the RTP/Duke/UNC area.
Our tool was validated on 83k covid positive patients in the Sanford Health system and shown to be a consistent 30% overestimate of risk as designed to cover the majority of our 95% confidence interval.
Hospitals don’t need to be involved, hotels like the Magnolia Group would charge cost and the local governments could help subsidize this further, Nurse Practitioners could be paid to station themselves at each convalescent hotel and help monitor the sick there and get those who needed it to hospital efficiently in this fashion. Tents set up in hospital parking lots have been used during influenza outbreaks like we had in 2009 or during COVID, hotels offer capacity at lower cost and keep the hospitality industry running, hotels with kitchens would be the source of food, delivery to hotels that don’t have kitchens can be easily scaled up by catering services.
And yes natural immunity, especially in low COVID-Age cohorts, is more robust and longer lasting to reinfection and severe outcomes than just having vaccine induced immunity alone.
Allowing the natural flow of viral infection through the low risk will give them immunity to the currently circulating variant, which is the best way to buffer against subsequent variants. Natural immunity also offers a full immune response to the 21 epitopes exposed by natural infection, not just the original spike protein and whatever bivalent addition aimed at more recent variants using mRNA tech. We would have more direct evidence of this fact if Pfizer or Moderna would be forced to run proper studies of booster efficacy against proper human controls(controlling for healthy vaccinee effect etc..) by looking at all cause mortality as endpoint, not just severe COVID outcomes. Denmark and much of Europe does not recommend COVID vaccines for young healthy people under age 18, and only recommends boosters for the over 50*.
As far as risk stratification tools, Johns Hopkins came to market with their own substandard risk predictor many months after covid-age.com. The notion of risk stratification is long proven and has buy in from the world’s top epidemiologists like Jay Bhattacharya et al. Perhaps it’s your views on this subject that are silly and unproven.
*Denmark shifted to targeted protection by 2022-2023, restricting boosters to ≥50-year-olds and clinically vulnerable populations. The U.S. maintains universal eligibility, recommending annual boosters for all ≥6 months regardless of individual risk. We are the outlier here, almost certainly because Big Pharma has captured our regulatory authorities, something RFK Jr. is going to end.
all cause mortality data is not that great. Sweden death rate several fold over other Scandinavian countries. GBD implemented in fall/early winter 2020 would have been a disaster. Yes lockdowns were draconian but not in all situations.
And THOSE stats are manipulated. All cause mortality is the only important measure.
And no, lockdowns are never useful and always destructive of liberty. You cannot control the spread of a viral, airborne disease. The virus doesn't "die out" during lockdown.
Even if THOSE stats are true, which idiot would consider lowering covid death with lockdowns at the cost of skyrocketing deaths from untreated cardiac disease, cancer, suicide, drug related deaths, homicicde, donestic violence, etc, etc , Success?
You need to think critically. You lockdown when hospitals are being over run. You don’t let it rip when a vaccine is available in 1 month as suggested by GBD. All mortality studies are fraught with bias. Studies which best control for bias show a 30% reduction in all cause mortality for Norway compared with Sweden.
The Vaccine (which btw did nothing to prevent infection and transmission hence masking was continued to be recommended even after vaccination) was available (to some) in 1/2021.
That’s not one month.
GBD instructed to focus on protecting the vulnerable (elderly) instead of the idiotic practice of masking toddlers, closing schools for over a year and destroying small businesses.
Observational studies are always biased. But Parroting the mainstream narrative is far from critical thinking. It’s quite the opposite.
Jay Bhattacharya’s Santa Clara study was crap and was funded by Jet Blue’s CEO. Patients were recruited on facebook and the lab methodology was flawed and widely criticised. This overestimation of covid cases served as the basis of the deeply flawed GBD which would have been disastrous if implemented just before the death peak in January 2021.
The best IFR estimate we have and since validated, and who cares who funded, just look at the data, those other criticisms are here addressed. And you need to show how ‘focused protection’ would have increased deaths, that’s just your unsubstantiated conjecture. https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/50/2/410/6146069?utm_source=perplexity
no it wasn’t validated. Seroprevalence studies two months later didn’t come close to the prevalence of cases that the Santa Clara study showed.
Seriously? They wanted to implement GBD immediately and work out the kinks after implementation. You certainly haven’t convinced me that hotel hoarding would protect anyone. Talk about a logistical nightmare. You can’t let it rip right before the death surge of January 2021. Here again this shows the ignorance and arrogance of the GBD. They didn’t anticipate covid surges or mutant strains.
During COVID many hotels, including Magnolia, were already opening floors to sick healthcare workers to convalesce to prevent spread back at their homes. So it was already working, no logistical nightmares.
Look at how hospitals handled swine flu in 2009, Obama signed emergency measures into action removing all regulatory barriers, and triage ‘tent cities’ sprang up overnight in hospital parking lots and lobbies. Logistical challenges were greater for such actions, but remove the government imposed barriers and free markets can move very fast.
RFK jr will have a full plate but much of this work is straight forward. The conflicts of interest AND corruption should be rooted out. Of course manufacturers of vaccines should NOT have liability protection. That's always been absurd. And corrupt.
Lots of work but lots of support too. As a mom, and a MAHA mom, this movement is historical!
I wish that your suggestions could be seen by all the right people, Vinay. I suspect they will be. I also wanted to comment on Dr. Cifu’s lack of support to RFK Junior and I have a theory about that. Dr. Cifu is a trustworthy, good and all about his patients person, and therefore is likely a very trusting person. Yes I’m a fan of him. That being said he probably doesn’t understand the criminal mind and the criminal mindset of most politicians! In some cases, you gotta be it to understand it.
Dr P, when you said "Losing only the support of McConnell, RFK Jr is confirmed" you left out the "and all Democrats." regarding point #4, the FDA has NEVER enforced it's post marketing commitments for ANY vaccine, not just the mRNAs. RFKjr and Aaron Siri have been suing them for years trying to get this legally mandated information and whenever a judge orders the agency to turn over the papers to them, the FDA shrugs and admits that they don't have it because they've failed to require the companies to do it.
your suggestions are great. i hope he brings you aboard.
i'd add 2 more to make your list an even 10:
9) end all drug company advertising on television and in medical journals. tv networks would go bankrupt overnight.
10) HHS should not be buying, distributing and profiting from vaccines.
this confirmation might just be the greatest thing that has ever happened in this country!!
There's nothing you can do, any FDA employee who doesn't do what pharma wants is secretly blackballed. Every good scientist aspires to get a cushy job in big pharma. The FDA has turned into a service center where crooked venture capital can use their "trials" to flip stock market IPOs etc etc.
We can defang the beast though. One simple reform, “The FDA shall not prevent market access for any claim.” They will be just another standards body competing with CE Mark and new NGO standards. Falsely claiming FDA approval is clearly still criminal and does not need FDA enforcement. Insurance may still require FDA approval for high risk interventions, but the low risk early detection and prevention strategies that an actual Healthcare system needs, can get to market much faster and cheaper without the FDA gauntlet in their way.
This is nonsense on stilts. I personally know many, many good scientists. None of them aspires to be hired by pharma. And provide evidence that FDA employees are blackballed or shut up.
Kuldorff was blackballed for recommending one dose of any of the vaccines for people over 65 before those with prior infection and the Young got any dose. He was on the FDA advisory board, but they didn’t like his opinion. He jokes that he’s the only person that’s been kicked off the FDA advisory board for being too pro-vaccine.
I worked directly with FDA for more than 27 yrs of my 37 yr pharma career, across multiple companies (big, mid-size and small pharma) and I can tell you with absolute certainty that FDA never did 'what pharma wanted', based on my experience and that of all of my colleagues.
Right?! I too worked for pharma and saw many investigational meds tanked by FDA. Could trials be improved (as VP frequently suggests)? Yes. Do some questionable drugs come onto the market? Yes. (Looking at you, amyloid-directed AD drugs).
The FDA is one gigantic committee, made up of smaller committees. The process could be improved. But to suggest it be abolished is idiotic.
Omg the Aduhelm piece of crap drug disgusted me and made me really question what was going on. I was never on the receiving end of any favors, in fact, many times the expectations and requirements felt punitive.
The two recently approved that remove amyloid (Leqembi and Kisunra) are no more effective than Aricept and Namenda. 6 months. The reps admit it. They should not have been approved.
I think certain disease states terrify the public enough that FDA will approve almost anything.
Then why did they continue to do what cellceutix wanted after they had been exposed for lying about the credentials of their CEO? Claimed PhD in pharmacology from Harvard, no record of him, the truth, vet school in the Carribbean. Why do they continue to approve sacubitril when there is no evidence it does anything and Dr’s like Roy Poses and Vinay Prasad cry foul.
So relieved and excited for this next chapter at HHS. Looking forward to many positive changes to Make America Healthy Again! Great suggestions from Vinay!
Great suggestions Vinay. But didn't RFK have to agree NOT to create a new vaccine surveillance system in order to get Cassidy's vote? What was that all about?
Probably in the minority here. I wholeheartedly support the enthusiasm fostered by the possibility ( not certainty) that RFK will be a disruptive force. The man has baggage, and he has said some wacky conspiratorial things that have nothing to do with reform of the health care system. Enough trustworthy scientists ( not Ja or Fauci) have serious doubts about this guy. We shouldn’t ignore this reality and simply hope for rational fixes from a guy who often comes across as irrational. The only sensible thing in all this is that addressing processed food and poisons in our diet is likely to save more lives than the harm vaccines could cause. I do worry about those who will use his confirmation to confirm dangerous ideas about lifesaving childhood vaccinations.
One more suggestion: Release all CDC records related to vaccine studies. This would include those that were alleged by an agency whistleblower to have shown a strong connection between the MMR vaccine and autism in black boys.
Sadly, many of those records were destroyed. Get Dr. William Thompson to testify. He saved most of the records!
yes! RFKjr has said that the first thing he will do is look into the hidden data
Bam-great start!
And I know this isn't your area of interest or concern, BUT, I hope he puts private health insurers under a microscope. The WSJ has been doing fantastic investigative reporting on how UHC and others are fleecing the taxpayers by 'upcoding' patients via 'free home visits', which allows them to collect more $$$ per patient, regardless of whether the newly found diseases/conditions are actually treated. MedPAC (oversight committee) puts out a report each year, and the most recent says that that MA plans (run by private industry) cost taxpayers 22% more than traditional Medicare. "Payments to MA plans are an estimated 22 percent higher than FFS spending for 2024" https://www.medpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar24_MedPAC_Report_To_Congress_SEC-2.pdf
What worries me is that RFK made the statement during his hearing that 'I have Medicare Advantage and I love it, but not everyone has that, because it's more expensive'. The truth is actually the opposite...MA plans are cheaper (for the individual) versus traditional Medicare + a supplemental plan. This topic needs to be watched very closely.
every year my humana people call to schedule a "home visit" and i tell them to put my name on the do not call list. i'm perfectly capable of taking my blood pressure and getting on a scale. if they asked me the date of my last mammogram, i would say that i haven't had my first one yet and they'd just flag me as being behind on all my tests and shots.
it is my strong belief that a person in good health can best keep it that way by avoiding all voluntary contact with the medical establishment and when i do choose to visit a healthcare professional, i only go to ones who don't take insurance, although medicare may cover some blood work costs.
the democratic senators made a very big deal of RFKjr confusing medicare and medicaid and you're right, my advantage plan does reduce my "share" by $105 a month, although i bet the government bumps up my "share" to compensate for that.
before i aged into medicare, i had a consult with a firm that explains how it works to people. it was a long telephone call and i took notes. when i hung up, i didn't understand it any better than i did before the call. it's meant to be opaque.
Nehmut Oz is purportedly an advocate for MA. MA needs some review and tweaking after 20 years. The modifications need to be based what the data reveals and not the capriciousness of the previous administration.
Great suggestions!
And let’s use better pandemic management strategies like the GBD and use risk stratification tools like Covid-age.com to focus protection on the high risk. Sweden has the lowest all cause excess mortality, we must learn the best strategies to reduce all cause harms.
You may be a critical thinker but you still need to be educated.
Vaccines do reduce transmission but only for a month or two. In addition they protected against death and hospitalization. I’m not sure what they do now. It would be nice to see some decent studies. But I digress.
The protection of the elderly was an absurd idea. The only way to protect them was to reduce the amount of virus in the community. GBD never came up with a good idea as to how to protect the elderly.
Masks did become a political issue. Cochrane pretty much showed minimal if any benefit from community masking. A motivated person will have decent protection with a well fitted N95.
Parroting? You’ve got a lot of nerve.
I talked to a major hotelier CEO Sarah Holtz on March 6, 2020 about making her Magnolia Hotels available to be either Covid free to hide from the virus or Covid convalescent to recover away from family and close contacts so not to spread to them, she was already doing the convalescent part and would have done this for all her hotels nation wide and would have charged only cost to keep the doors open, she said many other hotel chains would do the same. As the GBD made clear, we had sufficient means to ‘focus protection’ on the high risk or high COVIDAge as COVID-Age.com describes. You Daniel need to do more research on the potential to protect the high risk while letting young healthy populations go about schooling and working and getting natural immunity. Natural immunity being a stronger and more durable form of immunity so offering better protection as a ‘buffer’ to further viral spread to the high risk who could have ‘hidden’ from the virus more effectively this way. In addition, not vaccinating the low risk gives fewer opportunities for the virus to evolve immune escape and therefore makes the vaccine more effective for longer in the high risk cohort. Lockdowns were the worst of all possible actions we could have taken, most especially school closures.
I don’t get it. Who would go to these hotels? Which of the elderly? Who would feed them? Who would care for them? I think the odds of getting any hospitals involved would be slim.
The GBD did not make it clear that we had the sufficient means to protect the elderly.
Natural immunity has not been shown to be more efficacious than vaccine immunity.
Your statement about not vaccinating the low risk giving fewer opportunities for the virus to evolve is considered unproven and wrong by almost all virologists in the RTP/Duke/UNC area.
Your tool is silly and unproven.
Our tool was validated on 83k covid positive patients in the Sanford Health system and shown to be a consistent 30% overestimate of risk as designed to cover the majority of our 95% confidence interval.
Hospitals don’t need to be involved, hotels like the Magnolia Group would charge cost and the local governments could help subsidize this further, Nurse Practitioners could be paid to station themselves at each convalescent hotel and help monitor the sick there and get those who needed it to hospital efficiently in this fashion. Tents set up in hospital parking lots have been used during influenza outbreaks like we had in 2009 or during COVID, hotels offer capacity at lower cost and keep the hospitality industry running, hotels with kitchens would be the source of food, delivery to hotels that don’t have kitchens can be easily scaled up by catering services.
And yes natural immunity, especially in low COVID-Age cohorts, is more robust and longer lasting to reinfection and severe outcomes than just having vaccine induced immunity alone.
We knew this with Delta in 2021, https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-vaccination-remains-vital?utm_source=perplexity
Allowing the natural flow of viral infection through the low risk will give them immunity to the currently circulating variant, which is the best way to buffer against subsequent variants. Natural immunity also offers a full immune response to the 21 epitopes exposed by natural infection, not just the original spike protein and whatever bivalent addition aimed at more recent variants using mRNA tech. We would have more direct evidence of this fact if Pfizer or Moderna would be forced to run proper studies of booster efficacy against proper human controls(controlling for healthy vaccinee effect etc..) by looking at all cause mortality as endpoint, not just severe COVID outcomes. Denmark and much of Europe does not recommend COVID vaccines for young healthy people under age 18, and only recommends boosters for the over 50*.
As far as risk stratification tools, Johns Hopkins came to market with their own substandard risk predictor many months after covid-age.com. The notion of risk stratification is long proven and has buy in from the world’s top epidemiologists like Jay Bhattacharya et al. Perhaps it’s your views on this subject that are silly and unproven.
*Denmark shifted to targeted protection by 2022-2023, restricting boosters to ≥50-year-olds and clinically vulnerable populations. The U.S. maintains universal eligibility, recommending annual boosters for all ≥6 months regardless of individual risk. We are the outlier here, almost certainly because Big Pharma has captured our regulatory authorities, something RFK Jr. is going to end.
Sweden had the elderly self isolate which is what they were doing anyway.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/sweden-failed-to-protect-elderly-in-covid-pandemic-commission-finds-idUSKBN28P1QC/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10198735/
all cause mortality data is not that great. Sweden death rate several fold over other Scandinavian countries. GBD implemented in fall/early winter 2020 would have been a disaster. Yes lockdowns were draconian but not in all situations.
False. Sweden has the LOWEST all cause excess mortality in Europe 2020-2023
I’m not talking about all cause mortality. Those stars are never believable. I’m talking about death rates from covid.
And THOSE stats are manipulated. All cause mortality is the only important measure.
And no, lockdowns are never useful and always destructive of liberty. You cannot control the spread of a viral, airborne disease. The virus doesn't "die out" during lockdown.
I see free and dead instead of temporarily unfree and alive.
Even if THOSE stats are true, which idiot would consider lowering covid death with lockdowns at the cost of skyrocketing deaths from untreated cardiac disease, cancer, suicide, drug related deaths, homicicde, donestic violence, etc, etc , Success?
All cause mortality is what matters!
You need to think critically. You lockdown when hospitals are being over run. You don’t let it rip when a vaccine is available in 1 month as suggested by GBD. All mortality studies are fraught with bias. Studies which best control for bias show a 30% reduction in all cause mortality for Norway compared with Sweden.
Lockdowns started in 3/2020,
The Vaccine (which btw did nothing to prevent infection and transmission hence masking was continued to be recommended even after vaccination) was available (to some) in 1/2021.
That’s not one month.
GBD instructed to focus on protecting the vulnerable (elderly) instead of the idiotic practice of masking toddlers, closing schools for over a year and destroying small businesses.
Observational studies are always biased. But Parroting the mainstream narrative is far from critical thinking. It’s quite the opposite.
Jay Bhattacharya’s Santa Clara study was crap and was funded by Jet Blue’s CEO. Patients were recruited on facebook and the lab methodology was flawed and widely criticised. This overestimation of covid cases served as the basis of the deeply flawed GBD which would have been disastrous if implemented just before the death peak in January 2021.
The best IFR estimate we have and since validated, and who cares who funded, just look at the data, those other criticisms are here addressed. And you need to show how ‘focused protection’ would have increased deaths, that’s just your unsubstantiated conjecture. https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/50/2/410/6146069?utm_source=perplexity
no it wasn’t validated. Seroprevalence studies two months later didn’t come close to the prevalence of cases that the Santa Clara study showed.
Seriously? They wanted to implement GBD immediately and work out the kinks after implementation. You certainly haven’t convinced me that hotel hoarding would protect anyone. Talk about a logistical nightmare. You can’t let it rip right before the death surge of January 2021. Here again this shows the ignorance and arrogance of the GBD. They didn’t anticipate covid surges or mutant strains.
During COVID many hotels, including Magnolia, were already opening floors to sick healthcare workers to convalesce to prevent spread back at their homes. So it was already working, no logistical nightmares.
Look at how hospitals handled swine flu in 2009, Obama signed emergency measures into action removing all regulatory barriers, and triage ‘tent cities’ sprang up overnight in hospital parking lots and lobbies. Logistical challenges were greater for such actions, but remove the government imposed barriers and free markets can move very fast.
Let's go!!
Time to MAHA!
Superb recommendations Dr. P.
RFK jr will have a full plate but much of this work is straight forward. The conflicts of interest AND corruption should be rooted out. Of course manufacturers of vaccines should NOT have liability protection. That's always been absurd. And corrupt.
Lots of work but lots of support too. As a mom, and a MAHA mom, this movement is historical!
I wish that your suggestions could be seen by all the right people, Vinay. I suspect they will be. I also wanted to comment on Dr. Cifu’s lack of support to RFK Junior and I have a theory about that. Dr. Cifu is a trustworthy, good and all about his patients person, and therefore is likely a very trusting person. Yes I’m a fan of him. That being said he probably doesn’t understand the criminal mind and the criminal mindset of most politicians! In some cases, you gotta be it to understand it.
Dr P, when you said "Losing only the support of McConnell, RFK Jr is confirmed" you left out the "and all Democrats." regarding point #4, the FDA has NEVER enforced it's post marketing commitments for ANY vaccine, not just the mRNAs. RFKjr and Aaron Siri have been suing them for years trying to get this legally mandated information and whenever a judge orders the agency to turn over the papers to them, the FDA shrugs and admits that they don't have it because they've failed to require the companies to do it.
your suggestions are great. i hope he brings you aboard.
i'd add 2 more to make your list an even 10:
9) end all drug company advertising on television and in medical journals. tv networks would go bankrupt overnight.
10) HHS should not be buying, distributing and profiting from vaccines.
this confirmation might just be the greatest thing that has ever happened in this country!!
" The US FDA has waived Moderna’s commitment to study subclinical myocarditis.". Criminal.
There's nothing you can do, any FDA employee who doesn't do what pharma wants is secretly blackballed. Every good scientist aspires to get a cushy job in big pharma. The FDA has turned into a service center where crooked venture capital can use their "trials" to flip stock market IPOs etc etc.
We can defang the beast though. One simple reform, “The FDA shall not prevent market access for any claim.” They will be just another standards body competing with CE Mark and new NGO standards. Falsely claiming FDA approval is clearly still criminal and does not need FDA enforcement. Insurance may still require FDA approval for high risk interventions, but the low risk early detection and prevention strategies that an actual Healthcare system needs, can get to market much faster and cheaper without the FDA gauntlet in their way.
i think the Trump/Elon approach of a wrecking ball is what's called for here. can't wait to see tin lizzie warren with her hair on fire!
This is nonsense on stilts. I personally know many, many good scientists. None of them aspires to be hired by pharma. And provide evidence that FDA employees are blackballed or shut up.
Kuldorff was blackballed for recommending one dose of any of the vaccines for people over 65 before those with prior infection and the Young got any dose. He was on the FDA advisory board, but they didn’t like his opinion. He jokes that he’s the only person that’s been kicked off the FDA advisory board for being too pro-vaccine.
I worked in the industry for years, never met one good scientist in pharma, not one.
I worked directly with FDA for more than 27 yrs of my 37 yr pharma career, across multiple companies (big, mid-size and small pharma) and I can tell you with absolute certainty that FDA never did 'what pharma wanted', based on my experience and that of all of my colleagues.
Right?! I too worked for pharma and saw many investigational meds tanked by FDA. Could trials be improved (as VP frequently suggests)? Yes. Do some questionable drugs come onto the market? Yes. (Looking at you, amyloid-directed AD drugs).
The FDA is one gigantic committee, made up of smaller committees. The process could be improved. But to suggest it be abolished is idiotic.
Omg the Aduhelm piece of crap drug disgusted me and made me really question what was going on. I was never on the receiving end of any favors, in fact, many times the expectations and requirements felt punitive.
The two recently approved that remove amyloid (Leqembi and Kisunra) are no more effective than Aricept and Namenda. 6 months. The reps admit it. They should not have been approved.
I think certain disease states terrify the public enough that FDA will approve almost anything.
Then why did they continue to do what cellceutix wanted after they had been exposed for lying about the credentials of their CEO? Claimed PhD in pharmacology from Harvard, no record of him, the truth, vet school in the Carribbean. Why do they continue to approve sacubitril when there is no evidence it does anything and Dr’s like Roy Poses and Vinay Prasad cry foul.
Huh??
So relieved and excited for this next chapter at HHS. Looking forward to many positive changes to Make America Healthy Again! Great suggestions from Vinay!
Yay!!!
Completely defrock the scamdemic’s enforced narrative drivers
Excellent!
Great suggestions Vinay. But didn't RFK have to agree NOT to create a new vaccine surveillance system in order to get Cassidy's vote? What was that all about?
I saw that as well!
Probably in the minority here. I wholeheartedly support the enthusiasm fostered by the possibility ( not certainty) that RFK will be a disruptive force. The man has baggage, and he has said some wacky conspiratorial things that have nothing to do with reform of the health care system. Enough trustworthy scientists ( not Ja or Fauci) have serious doubts about this guy. We shouldn’t ignore this reality and simply hope for rational fixes from a guy who often comes across as irrational. The only sensible thing in all this is that addressing processed food and poisons in our diet is likely to save more lives than the harm vaccines could cause. I do worry about those who will use his confirmation to confirm dangerous ideas about lifesaving childhood vaccinations.
Exactly my thoughts.