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In this detailed look at the MAHA attack on certain vaccine ingredients, a variety of experts weigh in on the flawed arguments raised by HHS Secretary Kennedy and antivaxxers. DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs notes that the form of mercury in the vaccine additive thimerosal is not the same as the type that people are rightly concerned about, and says that the antivaxxers keep "moving the goalposts."

Coordinating Committee member Bruce Mirken lays out the absurdity of the Trump administration's decision to revoke the EPA's finding that climate change endangers public health and welfare, noting that climate change has unquestionably already killed people in the U.S. and elsewhere and increases the likelihood of catastrophic fires, floods and epidemics.

From stopping life-saving aid to developing nations to cuts to food assistance and other safety-net programs in the U.S. to RFK Jr.'s relentless attacks on vaccines, the Trump administration is waging a global war on children. DPH Coordinating Committee members Elizabeth Jacobs and James Alwine lay out the deadly details.

This update on the American Academy of Pediatrics' suit over vaccine policy notes, "In the days leading up to the hearing, public health groups have flocked to show their support for the AAP. On Tuesday the group Defend Public Health filed an amicus brief, arguing that the changes to the vaccine schedule — which acting CDC Director Jim O’Neill accepted — did not follow best practices for vaccine policy and that HHS’s statements that the changes would increase trust in vaccines and its comparisons to peer nations were faulty."

DPH members Teri Mills and Donna Gaffney, also cofounders of Grandparents for Vaccines, write, "As grandparents... we expected to worry about school performance, scraped knees, first heartbreaks and whether our grandchildren were getting enough sleep. We never expected to worry that diseases we thought were gone might come roaring into their lives — yet here we are."

DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs spoke to WBAI-FM in New York City about the growing spread of measles in the U.S., including at an ICE prison camp, and how administration policies, including HHS Secretary Kennedy's resistance to vaccination, are helping this easily preventable but highly contagious disease to spread.

Amid reports of a measles outbreak at an ICE detention camp in Texas, DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs discusses the disturbing public health implications of the ongoing ICE operations to round up and imprison large numbers of immigrants. She notes that ICE's health branch has recently rewritten its mission statement to delete a pledge to provide the best possible healthcare. Her segment begins at about 22:50.

In a column nationally syndicated via our friends at The Progressive (and appearing so far in 2 dozen papers nationwide, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Charlotte Observer) , DPH members Susana Fried and Alicia Ely Yamin lay out the consequences of the administration's expanded Global Gag Rule. They write that it "will threaten the lives of people around the world, especially women and people who don’t fit into the administration’s narrow, unscientific categories of gender."