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“Federal health officials on Monday announced dramatic revisions to the slate of vaccines recommended for American children,” the story started, “reducing the number of … routine shots to 11 from 17.”

In this context, “recommended” is equivalent to “mandated,” thanks to a cascade of state and federal laws triggered by the CDC schedule.

The removed vaccines include covid, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal ACWY, meningococcal B, rotavirus, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Those jabs will now be recommended only to high-risk groups or with a doctor’s specific agreement. ...

But the three big things the Times didn’t say were the real news.

💉 Firstly, this was the biggest rollback in the ever-expanding childhood vaccine schedule since Jonas Salk accidentally stuck himself and, in a fit of mad delirium, decided everyone else should be stuck, too. Yesterday’s partial pruning of the recommended schedule reduced the total number of childhood doses from ~88 to thirty. For readers in Portland, the schedule was just pruned by fifty-five doses— around two-thirds of the total.

Second, the Times (and the other corporate media outlets) also reassured readers that the American Pediatric Association and a bunch of blue states will still mandate the shots even if the CDC has taken them off the list.

But I’m not so sure that’s going to work. There’s a fly in the vaccine serum.

The hiccup is that the 1986 Childhood Vaccine Act, which protects vaccine makers from legal liability for injuries, tracks the CDC-recommended schedule. If a shot isn’t recommended, it isn’t covered, and injured folks can sue vaccine makers directly. That is a game-changer. If there’s one thing vaccine makers hate more than accountability, it’s having to share their profits with their injured customers.

Third, in explaining the changes, HHS published a fulsome 33-page report that contained some extremely noteworthy statements. For one, it included full-throated endorsements of the long-forgotten medical values of personal autonomy, self-determination, and informed consent:

“Among the fundamental principles of public health are respect for personal autonomy and self-determination, and informed consent is a cornerstone of medical care … vaccine decisions should never involve coercion, but instead should always be the result of informed consent and with the final decision resting with the patient/parents. Coercion renders informed consent invalid and undermines this basic right.”
You might think that didn’t need to be said. But it needed to be said.

The report also —maybe for the first time in any public CDC document— confirmed the potential existence of hard-to-prove long-term vaccine injuries:

“Vaccines may cause adverse reactions that occur or are diagnosed months or years after vaccination … Scientifically valid rates of adverse events are rarely available to determine the relationship, if any, between our country’s immunization schedule and the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases in American children.”
And, in a sentence that must freeze medical fetishists’ veins with icy terror, it hinted at a direct assault on all remaining vaccines by way of double-blinded, placebo-controlled randomized trials:

“Given the growing distrust that the American people have in the current childhood vaccine schedule, there is a need for more and better science, including gold standard placebo-controlled randomized trials … approvals of new vaccines designed for mass uptake should be based on double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trials.”
Much has been said about this. The short version is that nobody thinks most vaccines can survive these rigorous types of trials. Pharma shills avoid them like Tim Walz avoiding a process server.

That wasn’t all, by a long shot. The otherwise dry, technical brief was thoroughly salted with the language of medical freedom, and the promise of larger changes to come.