The CDC's ad campaign on the flu vaccine is being halted in the middle of peak flu season. The move came during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first full week on the job as head of HHS. Drs. Omer Awan and Vin Gupta discuss.
RFK Jr. promised. He promised!
Boy I didn’t see that one coming…
Incentivizing people to get vaccinated is just as important as the shot itself. It’s not nothing.
Hell, even I, a staunch supporter of vaccines, who religiously gets the flu shot every year, sometimes forget to ask my doctor if it’s available come autumn.
I mean that’s still pretty big. Why did the advertising campaign exist… to remind and encourage people to get flu shots, I’d assume they started doing that because… it helped with that. So what’s the expected effect of canceling the campaign, Less people getting vaccinated, and more people dying and going into the hospital due to either themselves chosing not to, or being unable to do so, and herd immunity being less.
All this link says is he halted the ADVERTISING campaign. Not anything else. Yet.
That in itself is way beyond the pale.
Incentivizing people to get vaccinated is just as important as the shot itself. It’s not nothing.
Hell, even I, a staunch supporter of vaccines, who religiously gets the flu shot every year, sometimes forget to ask my doctor if it’s available come autumn.
You’re not wrong I just felt it was a little clickbaity
I mean that’s still pretty big. Why did the advertising campaign exist… to remind and encourage people to get flu shots, I’d assume they started doing that because… it helped with that. So what’s the expected effect of canceling the campaign, Less people getting vaccinated, and more people dying and going into the hospital due to either themselves chosing not to, or being unable to do so, and herd immunity being less.