by Sharon Rondeau
(Jun. 27, 2023) — At 3:34 p.m. EDT, “The Five” co-host Dana Perino was a guest of Fox News’s Martha MacCallum, host of “The Story,” and asked if Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a declared Democrat presidential candidate challenging Joe Biden for the nomination, would find himself out of place in the party as a result of his stance on vaccines and mandates.
The conversation was initiated by Kennedy’s appearance with “Club Random” broadcaster Bill Maher during which Kennedy said he objects to the lack of “testing” done on vaccines as opposed to other types of treatments which enter the U.S. market.
A partial transcript of the interview shows Kennedy stating, “Every medicine is required to do placebo-controlled trials … you give a group of people the medicine, and then you give a similarly situated [group] of people a placebo, and then you look at health outcomes over a four- or five-year period. Many of the outcomes are going to have long diagnostic horizons and long incubation periods, so you won’t see them immediately. You need to do it — Anthony Fauci said said eight years for a vaccine. You need to watch them for a while. … The only medicine that never gets tested are vaccines. And that is what I object to. … All I’m saying is, let’s test them the way we test other medicines. That does not seem unreasonable.”
In response to MacCallum’s question, Perino said she personally doesn’t question vaccines. “I listen to my doctor,” she said, adding that she takes his advice and assumed many Americans do the same. She noted RFK has questioned “vaccines for many, many years” but did not elaborate on his findings, which are substantially documented at the website of his non-profit, Children’s Health Defense (CHD).
Her advice to Kennedy, though unsolicited, was that he “should rethink” his position on vaccines if he is to remain in the race as a Democrat. She invoked his recent campaign appearance in New Hampshire, which she said some of her Republican acquaintances attended, along with Independents and Democrats. RFK did not raise the issue of vaccines due to its controversial nature, Perino claimed, while contending he will have to answer questions on his position as the presidential election cycle unfolds.
A myriad of scientists and medical doctors have concluded, based partly on published papers at the NIH’s National Library of Medicine, that vaccines can cause injury to babies’ and children’s developing brains.
The number of vaccines recommended for children to attend school by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has grown from fewer than ten in 1983 to more than 70 today.
“With the ever expanding ACIP schedule of vaccine quantity and intensity of injections there has been a skyrocketing rate of autism,” wrote Dr. Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, on his June 3, 2023 Substack. “This has triggered scientists to go back and look at the studies published at the time to reassure parents that routine vaccines did not cause autism. Because so many shots are given at once, it is probably not any individual product that is the culprit, rather “hyper-vaccination” of a bundle of vaccine products that invokes a neurotropic, cytokine mediated inflammatory reaction that in some causes febrile seizures, autism, and immediate death. There are factors related to susceptibility including older parents and siblings with autism, but it remains that hyper-vaccination is a likely provocateur.”
On June 8, McCullough reported:
I have been impressed with the emotional tension felt from parents anxious, fatigued, and overwhelmed with a child suffering from a developmental neuropsychiatric disorder. Autism spectrum disorder, the prototype, ranges from severely developmentally disabled requiring 24 x 7 care to nearly completely mainstreamed. At several large public events I asked: “how many of you have been touched by autism in your family or social circles?” Each time it is about one third of the crowd. The most common vignette for the onset of autism is a febrile seizure, most commonly before the age of five, and after that point a clear regression in milestones, loss of eye contact, and then the classic neuropsychiatric manifestations of autism emerge over the remainder of childhood.
I have previously reported on older combination vaccinates (DTP) and the incidence of febrile seizures. Putting multiple vaccines into one shot increases the risk. I wondered if the more modern MMR vaccines by Merck and GSK had made any progress in safer vaccine products without the risk of febrile seizures.
Outcomes other than neurological have been reported as a result of vaccination, some reports contend.
Others in the scientific and medical communities disagree that a link exists between vaccines and injury, particularly in the case of autism.
Perino concluded that Kennedy’s views are not in keeping with today’s Democrat Party and that if he truly wishes to become president, he should abandon his current affiliation and relaunch his campaign as an Independent.
As The Post & Email reported, Kennedy will host a roundtable Tuesday evening at 7:00 p.m. EDT via Zoom to discuss “the process of formation of a new health system to reduce chronic disease, cut costs, and allow the people of this country to thrive.”
RFK jr. position is reasonable, I was stunned that so people just so readily took the jab for the coronavirus vaccine after such limited testing has been done on it. Most drugs and vaccines go through vigorous test trials that are at least a minimum of 5 years.
I bet Perino would buy a shiny bridge in Texas if W told her to.