My Life Shows the Horror of RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Guidelines
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Key Points:
- The author recounts a personal battle with meningococcal disease in 2004, which resulted in severe tissue damage, multiple amputations, and long-term health struggles, underscoring the devastating impact of the illness.
- Vaccines have significantly reduced meningitis cases since 2005, but recent decisions by Donald Trump, RFK Jr., and their advisers to remove meningitis and other vaccines from the CDC schedule threaten to reverse these gains and may lack scientific and legal justification.
- The author highlights confusion caused by the CDC's shift to "shared clinical decision-making" for meningitis vaccines, leading to lower vaccination rates and increased risk, especially as meningitis cases have been rising recently.
- Some Republican leaders, like Sen. Bill Cassidy
