by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week reported that routine childhood vaccines — like those targeting measles, tetanus, diphtheria and hepatitis B, among others — have prevented approximately 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations and 1,129,000 deaths over approximately 30 years.
In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the agency estimated the shots have also saved the U.S. $540 billion in direct costs and $2.7 trillion in indirect societal costs, such as parents missing work to care for a sick child.
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Mainstream media touted the CDC report as a “testament to the success” of childhood vaccines and as evidence that the high cost of childhood vaccines is paying off.
But experts who spoke with The Defender said the CDC relied on outdated disease and mortality statistics that led to “laughable” conclusions and ignored the real costs of adverse effects of vaccination.
They said the timing of the CDC report — issued amid news reports of waning public confidence in the CDC’s childhood vaccine schedule — suggested the agency was using the report as “propaganda” to defend its vaccination program.
“The methods are shoddy, the data are untethered from reality and the conclusions are a preposterous fiction,” Toby Rogers, Ph.D., a fellow at the Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research, told The Defender. “This study is an advertisement on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry and it should be treated as such.”
Researchers from the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, led by Fangjun Zhou, Ph.D., sought to quantify the health and economic benefits of routine immunizations among children in the U.S. born between 1994 and 2023 — approximately 117 million children.
They reproduced the methodology from a 2014 paper Zhou and colleagues published in Pediatrics, estimating the health and economic benefits of vaccination for a single year, 2009.
“If there are two more conflicted journals to represent the benefits of the childhood vaccination program, you could not find them,” Mark Blaxill, co-author of “The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic,” told The Defender.
Blaxill said:
“The profession of pediatrics is the delivery channel for the childhood immunization program, that’s why it exists. And the MMWR is put out by the CDC, which is recommending the program. So this is propaganda, and it is put out by those parties most interested in defending the outcome.”
The researchers analyzed nine vaccines targeted by the CDC’s Vaccines for Children Program, which provides free vaccines to about half of American children. They sought to quantify the effects of those vaccines since the program began in 1994.
However, they included data for all vaccinated children, not just program recipients.
Vaccines included diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP or DTaP); Haemophilus influenzae type b or Hib; poliovirus; measles, mumps and rubella or MMR; hepatitis B; varicella; hepatitis A; pneumococcal conjugate and rotavirus.
They calculated costs associated with immunization, including costs of the vaccines and administration, parent travel and work time lost taking children to get vaccinated, and adverse events.
They compared those with benefits of vaccination, which included medical costs saved by not having to treat a disease, parent travel and work time that would have been lost in caring for a sick child, and other similar benefits.
They concluded that “routine childhood immunizations remain a highly cost-effective public health intervention, preventing thousands of lifetime illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths among children born during 1994–2023.”
The analysis didn’t include flu, COVID-19 and HPV vaccines or the RSV monoclonal a
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