{"id":1539435,"date":"2025-06-02T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1539435"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:05:00","slug":"dr-marty-makary-shatters-the-vaccine-narrative-live-on-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/dr-marty-makary-shatters-the-vaccine-narrative-live-on-cbs\/1539435\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Marty Makary Shatters The Vaccine Narrative Live On CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Marty Makary Shatters The Vaccine Narrative Live On CBS<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via\u00a0VigilantFox.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a historic course correction from the Biden-era vaccine policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Standing alongside NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, Kennedy announced that COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women were officially removed from the CDC\u2019s immunization schedule.<\/p>\n

\u201cHi, everybody. I\u2019m Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., your HHS secretary. And I\u2019m here today with NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary. I couldn\u2019t be more pleased to announce that, as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was an unmistakable shift away from coercive one-size-fits-all medicine, and a clear signal that data, not politics, is now leading the conversation.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a historic course correction from the Biden-era vaccine policy.<\/p>\n

Standing alongside NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, Kennedy announced that COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/ZWueGdQRyV<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) June 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Today, Dr. Marty Makary took the fight straight into the lion\u2019s den\u2014appearing on CBS to dismantle the network\u2019s go-to vaccine talking points.<\/p>\n

When host Margaret Brennan tried to paint the updated guidance as confusing, Makary didn\u2019t flinch.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you clearly state what the policy is? Because this is confusing,\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

Makary responded without hesitation: \u201cYeah, we believe the recommendation should be with a patient and their doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when the real shift came into focus.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re going to get away from these blanket recommendations in healthy young Americans.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOn the COVID vaccine schedule, we don\u2019t want to see kids kicked out of school because a 12-year-old girl is not getting her fifth COVID booster shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t see the data there to support a young, healthy child getting a repeat infinite annual COVID vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then laid out the sheer absurdity of where the old policy was heading.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a theory that we should sort of blindly approve the new COVID boosters in young, healthy kids every year in perpetuity, and a young girl born today should get 80 COVID mRNA shots or other COVID shots in her average lifespan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re saying that\u2019s a theory, and we\u2019d like to check in and get some randomized controlled data. It\u2019s been about four years since the original randomized trials. So we\u2019d like an evidence based approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then came the knockout line\u2014delivered with facts no one could deny.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a decision between a parent and their doctor\u2014I don\u2019t know if you know these statistics, but 88% of American kids, their parents have said no to the COVID shot last season. So America, the vast majority of Americans are saying no.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Dr. Marty Makary took the fight straight into the lion\u2019s den\u2014appearing on CBS to dismantle the network\u2019s go-to vaccine talking points.<\/p>\n

When host Margaret Brennan tried to paint the updated guidance as confusing, Makary didn\u2019t flinch.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you clearly state what the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/R7Gv4lE655<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) June 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Brennan tried to shift gears\u2014falling back on CDC data to argue that even healthy kids remained at risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the CDC data said 41% of children aged 6 months to 17 years hospitalized with COVID between 2022 and 2024 did not have a known underlying condition. In other words, they looked healthy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd COVID was serious for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Makary was ready.<\/p>\n

Calm and precise, he dismantled the claim with surgical clarity.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo first of all, we know the CDC data is contaminated with a lot of false positives from incidental positive COVID tests with routine testing of every kid that walks in the hospital.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that data historically under the Biden administration did not distinguish being sick from COVID or an incidental positive COVID test.\u201d<\/p>\n

He shared what he\u2019s heard from the people who actually run the ICUs in America.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you go to an ICU in America and you ask how many people are in the ICU that are healthy, that are sick with COVID? The answer I get again, again is we haven\u2019t seen that in a year or years.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, he warned, making universal recommendations based on flawed data isn\u2019t just wrong\u2014it\u2019s dangerous.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so the worst thing you can do in public health is to put out an absolute universal recommendation in young, healthy kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the vast majority of Americans are saying, no, we want to see some data. And you say, forget about the data, just get it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brennan tried to shift gears\u2014falling back on CDC data to argue that even healthy kids remained at risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the CDC data said 41% of children aged 6 months to 17 years hospitalized with COVID between 2022 and 2024 did not have a known underlying condition. In other words, they\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/DhIkeoHmZB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) June 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

But it was the final exchange that landed like a sledgehammer.<\/p>\n

When Brennan questioned why the HHS bypassed the CDC\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the new policy shift, Makary landed a haymaker.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat panel has been a kangaroo court where they just rubberstamp EVERY single vaccine put in front of them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said the committee hadn\u2019t been focused on science, but on messaging and marketing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look at the minutes of the last couple of years, they say, we want a simple message for everybody just so they can understand it. It was not a data based conversation. It was a conversation based on marketing and ease.\u201d<\/p>\n

And without real evidence, he warned, these recommendations become little more than guesswork.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s zero clinical data, you\u2019re opining. I mean\u2014it\u2019s a theory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so we don\u2019t want to put out an absolute recommendation for kids, with no clinical data to support it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The implication was unmistakable: public health decisions should be based on evidence and transparency\u2014not rubber stamps and slogans.<\/p>\n

For the first time in years, someone on national television was calling out the system.<\/p>\n

But it was the final exchange that landed like a sledgehammer.<\/p>\n

When Brennan questioned why the HHS bypassed the CDC\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the new policy shift, Makary landed a haymaker.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat panel has been a kangaroo court where they just\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/jG04k9Tz2s<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) June 1, 2025<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 06\/02\/2025 – 13:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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