RFK Jr., in his own words: flu, diabetes, autism, etc.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing, which starts on Wednesdays, is expected to ask him closely to him about his controversy views on vaccine.

For many years, Kennedy has questioned the safety of vaccines, including polio and measles. Recently, he has not plans to take the vaccine from Americans, but he wants to publish safety data to the public despite almost all data has already been published.

Kennedy's opposite view is far beyond the vaccine. And as Secretary of the Health and Welfare, he has a major impact on health policies, even in general, even if it reduces funding for specific programs and increasing other programs. Will give.

Some of the facts of his claims are as follows.

This is false. The number of Kennedy is a few digits.

The National Diabetes Statistics is presumed that 10,000 children in 2021 and a young man under the age of 20, that is, 0.35 %, had been diagnosed with diabetes. Another study showed that 0.1 % of 10 to 19 young people in 2017 had diabetes.

Kennedy also seems to combine a boy or type 1 diabetes, a self -immune disease, which is possible due to unhealthy lifestyle. It is correct that new cases of diabetes (both types) are increasing. However, the rate of teenagers is still much lower than adults and increases with age. The highest illness rate, 29.2 %, is between adults over 65 years old.

Kennedy stated in a comment after the previous diabetes: “These children rely on the treatment of insulin and diabetes in the treatment of chronic diseases in the remaining life, which has bankruptcy of our medical system.”

Pre -diabetes is a warning sign for diabetes, but in most cases, insulin treatment is required. Diabetes is also rising. Approximately 28 % of teenagers have previous diabetes.

This is false. Every year, scientists track the effectiveness of the annual influenza vaccine. And every year, dozens of research are documented the effectiveness of vaccines for hospitalization and death. The exact number is different, but the results indicate that vaccination is always useful.

The injected influenza vaccine does not contain a living virus, and the nose spray vaccine contains a weakened virus. Neither type can send the flu.

The composition of influenza vaccine is usually determined in spring, based on the dominant mutant of the Southern Hemisphere at the time. The vaccine produced in a few years is an excellent match for viruses that appear in the fall, and in other years, the biggest speculation of scientists is a bit far away.

As a result, the effectiveness is 30-90 %, depending on the age group and influenza subtype. However, even if the effectiveness is low, the vaccine may reduce the period and severity of the disease.

Influenza tends to be the most severe in the age of five and the elderly, so vaccines are particularly recommended -not required -obligations. Since the introduction of influenza vaccine in 1945, the average life expectancy among the elderly has steadily increased.

This requires context. Kennedy is partially correct. One among 36 American children has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to the Disease Control Prevention Center (estimated 34 people are unique to boys). And in California, one in 22 children has autism.

However, autism is a spectrum, and most of the diagnosed people can participate in sports and write poetry (if they are tilted so), pay taxes, dates, and marriage. You can do it. Many are parents. The list of autistic people includes the successful athletes, writers, actors, activists, artists, politicians, and even the Iron Mask, the leader of the Trump administration's government's cost reduction.

Research suggests that most of the increase in autism diagnosis is at the calm edge of the spectrum. This is because the diagnostic criteria have expanded.

What Kennedy explains is a subset of autistic people, and about one in four diagnosis is seriously influenced. But even they are more likely to harm themselves than others. (The imprisonment rate of profound autism is increasing, but it is slow.)

Kennedy may not have seen such people when he was a child. At that time, most of them were isolated at home or misdiagnosed as mental illness, and were taking medicine heavy.

This requires context. First, most states are obliged to receive about 20 shots for children to enroll in school, but these shots protect eight vaccines from one dozen diseases (use). It contains the dose of the vaccine.

Children may receive 35 shots by the age of five, including recommended and unnecessary vaccines, such as annual influenza shots. Kennedy's mathematics will only be correct if the vaccine given during pregnancy is included, and for each component and each administration. Combination products were considered another vaccine.

All vaccines need to meet the strict requirements of safety before approval. After the approval, the federal staff monitors reports of side effects in multiple systems that analyze medical records and reports from patients and doctors.

In the placebo control test, Kennedy's claim that none of the shots had been tested did not require context. Some of the vaccines currently used are actually tested for placebo. Others are new vaccines that have been placed in placebo contrast test before approval.

New vaccines are often tested, not placebo, for approved vaccines, and indicate that they are as good as preventing illness. New treatments for specific diseases, such as cancer, have been tested in such examinations, and are called non -defendments.

It is non -ethical to deny some children with test protection for dangerous pathogens, as giving placebo to refuse treatment to ill patients.

This is false. Many studies were investigating this claim and found that it was unfounded. On the contrary, not the vaccine, but the permanent cough itself is dangerous or even fatal for young children.

In both statements, Kennedy mentions a perturban cough or hundred -day cough vaccine. This was canceled in the 1990s. Vaccines were made of inactivated bacteria and were associated with more side effects, such as fever, drowsiness, and irritability compared to new vaccines.

However, research has not discovered serious short or long -term results. According to a large -scale study, every 100,000 vaccines had a thermal attack on the day of vaccination.

Heat attack is a seizure caused by high fever and can occur during childhood illness, including ear infections. They do not cause permanent harm. Long -term follow -ups by some teams do not show evidence of brain injury in the vaccine.

Kennedy has correctly reported that a team had reported an increase in mortality after vaccination in West Africa. However, a series of independent panels held to investigate the research unanimously concluded that team data did not support this conclusion.

“Certainly, the dissertation provides substantial evidence for such a conclusion,” an expert wrote.