Children’s Health Defense: Most Read News of the Week (05/17/25)

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Newsletter contains links to each topic listed below (headlines edited slightly but in the same order as newsletter; additional information summarized and lightly edited from the articles).

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HHS Vaccine Policy Shift: HHS Will Stop Recommending COVID Vaccines for Kids, Teens and Pregnant Women, WSJ Reports

HHS plans to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant women, children and teens (source: The Wall Street Journal).

Vaccine Critics: The decision is long overdue and HHS should take the vaccine off the market.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Vaccines remain “the best way” for pregnant women to “protect themselves and their pregnancy.”

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Pfizer Lawsuit Update: Will Pfizer Be Held Accountable? Federal Judge Sends Kansas Lawsuit Against COVID Vaccine Maker Back to State Court

Pfizer tried to keep case in federal court, arguing that the PREP Act* “completely preempts” consumer protection claims made by Kansas. But a federal judge ruled the case must proceed in state court.

*PREP Act (which MUST be repealed) shields COVID-19 manufacturers from liability for injuries caused by the shots.

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COVID Vaccine Fertility Concerns: COVID Vaccines May Reduce Women’s Lifelong Egg Supply, Rat Study Suggests

Turkish researchers: Results justify “further investigations into the vaccines’ effects on human ovarian reserve.”

Experts: The findings have “profound” implications for global fertility rates.

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FDA Targets Fluoride Drugs: FDA Moves to Get Fluoride Prescription Drugs for Kids Off the Market

FDA is “initiating action” to remove children’s concentrated ingestible fluoride prescription drug products from the market. Although available by prescription for babies as young as 6 months old, the drugs were never safety tested or FDA approved.

ED NOTE: Same goes for COVID shots (be see PREP Act above).

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Hep B Vaccine Critique: Hep B Vaccines Come With High Risk, Little Benefit — Why Does CDC Recommend Them for Every Newborn?

Per CDC: Almost all children and older adults infected with acute hepatitis B virus recover completely with no “lasting liver damage.

So why did CDC advisers to recommend this shot for all babies on the day they’re born — especially given limited clinical trial data and lack of safety monitoring?

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EU Pfizer Contract Scandal: EU Broke Law By Refusing to Turn Over Text Messages Related to Pfizer COVID Vaccine Contracts

European Court of Justice ruling: The European Commission violated EU law by denying a request from The New York Times to review text messages between the commission’s president Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.

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Pregnancy Vaccine Risks: 4 Vaccines for Pregnant Women? Doctors and Scientists Explain Why CDC Recommendation Is Dangerous

CDC recommends pregnant women get at least four vaccines: COVID-19, flu, whooping cough and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

Why? These shots provide questionable benefit while posing known risks, including increased miscarriage rates and exposure to neurotoxins.

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Texas Toothpaste Investigation: Texas AG Launches Investigation Into Toothpaste Makers Colgate, Crest for Deceptive Marketing to Kids

Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating Colgate and Crest for marketing fluoride toothpaste products to parents and kids in ways that are “misleading, deceptive, and dangerous.”

Meanwhile, the practice of adding fluoride to drinking water is under increasing scrutiny.

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Trump Probes COVID Paper: Trump Administration Investigating Publisher of COVID Origins Paper for Corruption, Citing Influence by Fauci

In March 2020, Nature Medicine published “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” by Kristian Andersen, Ph.D. (professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute) and Robert F. Garry, Ph.D. (professor of microbiology and immunology at the Tulane School of Medicine). The paper concluded that COVID-19 had a zoonotic, or animal, origin and has been widely cited worldwide.

Inquiring Minds in The Trump Administration Want to Know: Did the paper’s authors and publisher allow Dr. Anthony Fauci and others to influence the paper’s conclusions in exchange for funding? (ED Sarcasm: Is the new Pope Catholic?)

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FDA Approves Natural Dyes: FDA Approves 3 Natural Food Dyes in Move to Phase Out Toxic Synthetics

FDA approved the use of galdieria extract blue, butterfly pea flower extract, and calcium phosphate. The approval expands the natural food dye options for the food industry, making the industry more willing to remove synthetic dyes from products such as smoothies, milkshakes, breakfast cereals, candy, soft candy, frostings, ice cream, crackers, pretzels, chips and other snacks. The first two natural dyes are brilliant blue; calcium phosphate is white.

Additional References (tinyurl.com/3rrxmhd8and tinyurl.com/488ndzas):

• Galdieria extract blue: Derived from the unicellular red algae Galdieria sulphuraria. Approved for nonalcoholic beverages and beverage bases, cereals, candies, ice creams, yogurts, and creamers;

• Butterfly pea flower extract: Produced through the water extraction of the dried flower petals of the butterfly pea plant, and approved for a variety of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, candies, ice creams, and snacks such as crackers, chips, and pretzels

• Calcium phosphate: Approved for ready-to-eat chicken products, candies, and doughnuts. FDA already listed calcium phosphate as "generally recognized as safe" for use as a nutrient or ingredient in food.

ED NOTE
Removing synthetic dyes will still leave us with...
...wait for it
...JUNK FOOD!