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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,478 posts)
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 03:50 PM Dec 9

HPV vaccine saving lives; RFK Jr. should see that

New research has again demonstrated the enormous value of the HPV vaccine, which protects against the virus responsible for more than 90 percent of cervical cancer cases.

Studies had already shown that the vaccine dramatically reduces rates of human papillomavirus infections and cervical cancer. Now comes evidence of what has long been suspected: The vaccine also saves lives.

That’s a message that needs reinforcing in the U.S., where vaccination rates continue to lag behind pre-pandemic levels, which were already behind health officials’ targets for population-level coverage. Officials will now contend with a new administration that is stacking its public health agencies with leadership like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is well known for his skepticism of vaccines, including the HPV shot.

In a letter published in JAMA, researchers narrowed in on cervical cancer deaths among women who were younger than 25 between 2016 and 2021; the first group with widespread uptake of the vaccine as adolescents following its approval in 2006. While cervical cancer deaths among young women had been steadily dropping for years thanks to improved screening, researchers found a sharper decline among this group, leading to 26 fewer deaths over that period.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-hpv-vaccine-saving-lives-rfk-jr-should-see-that/

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HPV vaccine saving lives; RFK Jr. should see that (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 9 OP
That dipshit Jilly_in_VA Dec 9 #1
reality and RFK Jr parted ways long ago DBoon Dec 9 #2

Jilly_in_VA

(11,106 posts)
1. That dipshit
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 03:53 PM
Dec 9

sees what he wants to. Don't bother him with facts, his mind is made up. Anyway, I think the worm ate the "reasoning" part of his brain.

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