Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stumped former CDC Director, Susan Monarez, whom HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired for not changing the childhood vaccine schedule.
Monarez couldn’t answer a simple question: “What is the medical reason to give a Hepatitis B vaccine to a newborn whose mom has no hepatitis?”
Well, we all know she could answer the question. Instead, she tapped around the question:
“You wouldn’t fire the people who are saying that we have to vaccinate our kids at six months of age. That’s who you refuse to fire.”Monarez: “So that assertion, is not commensurate with the experience that I had with the individuals who are identified to be fired.”Paul: “Did any of the people you refused to fire believe that we should change the vaccine schedule and no longer force six-month-old kids to take it?”“Every one of them was adamant we should keep it at six months.”Then Paul dropped a question that stopped the room cold:“What is the medical reason to give a Hepatitis B vaccine to a newborn whose mom has no hepatitis?”Monarez: “So none of the discussion points that you just brought up were ever…”Paul: “That’s changing the childhood schedule.”“This is the debate over changing the childhood schedule. The Hepatitis B vaccine on the schedule is given to newborns.”“What is the medical scientific reason and proof for giving a newborn a Hepatitis B vaccine? If the mom is Hep B negative?”Monarez: “I want to go back to the assertion…”Paul: “What is the medical reason for giving a Hepatitis B vaccine to newborn?”“See, everybody’s like blithely going along. We can’t change the childhood and you’re somehow terrible if you want to change the childhood, we should be discussing what is the childhood vaccine schedule.”“The burden should be on you. You want to make all the kids take this. The burden is upon you and the people you wouldn’t fire to prove to us that we need to give our six-month-old a COVID vaccine, and that we need to give our one-day-old a Hepatitis B vaccine.”“That’s what the debate ought to be about, not whether all vaccines are good or whether we live in Alice in Wonderland.”
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