What happened to RFK Jr.’s red line on risky vaccines?



For nearly half a century after the catastrophic 1967 trial, the U.S. government failed to approve a safe and effective RSV vaccine. Then came the COVID-19 debacle — and suddenly, we’re supposed to believe the science caught up. As if by magic, after the mRNA disaster and its lingering questions, federal agencies now bless an endless stream of RSV shots for children and adults alike.

Never mind that just two years ago, Anthony Fauci co-authored a paper admitting that safe RSV vaccine development faced “many and complex” challenges. He cited risks like antigenic drift and called for “outside-the-box” thinking to make next-generation vaccines possible.

If Kennedy truly doubts the safety of older vaccines, why would his handpicked advisers endorse new injections for a virus that rarely warrants immunization?

Apparently, that box got checked quickly — at least according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted last month to approve Merck’s new RSV monoclonal antibody shot, Enflonsia, for prophylactic use in infants. The treatment mimics a vaccine in function and application.

The approval came despite glaring trial results.

Yes, the Phase 2b/3 CLEVER trial included a legitimate placebo group — finally. But the vaccinated group suffered more deaths and injuries than the placebo group. All-cause mortality ran slightly higher among those who received Enflonsia.

How can any vaccine win approval without reducing the risk of death?

Trial data showed three deaths linked to the vaccinated group, compared to just one among the placebo group. Statistically underpowered or not, that outcome suggests a 50% higher risk of death. That alone should have triggered demands for further study.

Instead, the CDC approved it.

The vaccinated group also faced a 350% higher incidence of upper respiratory tract infections, a 63% higher rate of lower respiratory infections, and a 41% higher risk of febrile seizures. The sample size wasn’t large enough to detect rarer events — yet regulators waved it through anyway. And all this for a virus that most infants overcome with basic care and a nebulizer.

ACIP passed the recommendation 5-2 on June 26. Dissenters Retsef Levi and Vicky Pebsworth cited the higher death rate and adverse reactions. Levi raised additional concerns about immune enhancement — where vaccination worsens the disease in later exposure — and called for longer trials focused on high-risk groups.

History supports his skepticism. In the 1960s, trial participants who received the RSV vaccine developed worse outcomes in subsequent years. We’ve seen similar patterns with some newer RSV formulations. None of today’s trials followed participants long enough to rule out antibody-dependent enhancement.

Even Moderna’s RSV/hMPV combo trial in infants aged 5 to 8 months had to be halted last year due to signs of enhanced respiratory disease. Yet, in May 2024, the Food and Drug Administration approved a similar mRNA shot for adults 60 and older. On June 12, Trump's Health and Human Services expanded that approval to adults over 18 deemed “at risk” — despite all we’ve learned about the dangers of mRNA and respiratory virus vaccines.

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The FDA under Joe Biden approved Abrysvo, Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for seniors and pregnant women, despite serious warning signs. Post-licensure data linked the shot to elevated risks of Guillain-Barré syndrome within 42 days of injection. And in trials involving pregnant women, 5.7% of infants were born prematurely in the vaccinated group — compared to 4.7% in the placebo group.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. deserves credit for demanding more rigorous placebo-controlled trials. But what’s the point if agencies approve vaccines even when trials raise red flags?

RFK Jr. has publicly questioned links between childhood vaccines and autism — especially the hepatitis B shot. If he truly doubts the safety of older vaccines, why would his handpicked advisers endorse new injections for a virus that rarely warrants immunization?

Merck’s Enflonsia includes genomic material derived from an ovarian cancer cell line. Why on earth would we inject even a minimal amount of tumorigenic cells for a bad cold that we’ve been treating successfully with a nebulizer for years?

No one expects RFK Jr. to overhaul the CDC overnight, especially given internal resistance and pro-mRNA holdouts within the White House. But at the very least, many hoped the reckless approval of unnecessary vaccines would stop under his watch.

Instead, the CDC pressed forward with the same reckless momentum.

What happened to “first, do no harm”?

My doctor bullied me over vaccines. RFK will end the intimidation.



The left has spent the last year fearmongering about RFK Jr. and his stance on vaccines, and the attacks are only getting more volatile and desperate as his confirmation hearings rage on.

What the left has failed to admit or accept is that RFK Jr. does not want to rid the American health care system of vaccines but rather hold manufacturers liable and give American citizens the right to choose whether or not they want to give them to their children or take them themselves.

Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” couldn’t be more thrilled with RFK’s stance — especially as a mother who has undergone intense pressure and scrutiny from her medical doctors to vaccinate her children.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever talked about this, but I started having some questions for my pediatricians when my oldest was a baby, and it just seemed like a lot. It just seemed like a lot at once, when they’re really little, and so I had some questions, especially as a new mom,” Stuckey explains.


While Stuckey had her first child before COVID hit, she couldn’t help feeling that something was off with her pediatrician's response to her questions.

“I was just curious before all of that, like ‘Where do we get the science for the schedule?’ And ‘This is so much more than when I was a baby,’ and ‘What’s the reason for that?’ and ‘Is it okay to space them out?’ I just wanted to know, and I felt completely shut down by my pediatrician,” she says.

“First of all, I didn’t get any answers,” she continues. “And when I started to ask about, ‘Okay, well, what about this kind of adjusted schedule or something like that,’ I was told, ‘As you know, there’s no science backing your position. As long as you know that, there’s no medical necessity behind what you might choose to do, as long as you know that there’s no foundation to your concerns or your curiosities.’”

“It came to the point where I would not go to a pediatrician appointment without my husband because I felt like I was being made to feel stupid for just asking things, and if anything causes skepticism, it is being made to feel like you cannot ask a question,” she adds.

Stuckey isn’t alone in her experience, as mothers all over the country have reported feeling pressured by pediatricians to pump their children full of vaccines within the first year of their lives.

“A lot of parents go through this bullying in the doctor’s office, and if RFK being the head of the HHS at least changes that, gives parents more information and more power and changes the culture so that maybe doctors don’t feel like they have to be so defensive, because doctors really don’t spend a lot of time in med school learning about vaccines, but they should,” Stuckey says.

“They should know everything about them. They should know the benefits, they should know the risks, they should know the ingredients, they should be able to answer questions in a very cheery and helpful way that should be the norm,” she continues.

“I’m not saying that RFK has the power to change all of that as one individual, but I do think he has a lot of it. And I think no matter where you stand on vaccines, that would be a benefit for everyone,” she adds.

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‘The View’ host STANDS UP for RFK Jr.; calls out food industry and Western medicine



Americans were told to “trust the science” when it couldn’t have been clearer that those behind “the science” were lying to them.

But while much of the country has woken up to the obvious, the mainstream media is still trying to keep the rest fast asleep — especially when it comes to truth-teller Robert F. Kennedy Jr. preparing to take his position leading the HHS in the Trump administration.

“This guy, RFK Jr., has made it very clear that he is a vaccine skeptic, and what we have to remember is it’s not going to be a narrow position. If you are the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, that’s a very big, big, broad position. Not a narrow position,” Sunny Hostin said in a recent segment on "The View."

“They’re not just going to put him in charge of food, they’re going to put him in charge of everything. And what he just refused to answer, in terms of some questions for CNN, is he refused to answer about whether he stands by his previous comments tying vaccines to autism,” Hostin continued.


“That’s all you need to know about him. He refused to answer the questions. And the other thing he said was he plans to question the entire science of vaccines,” she added, noting that “we know that vaccines work, we know that vaccines save lives.”

However, her fellow panelist Sara Haines has a different view.

“I have a Chinese, Western-trained doctor who has pointed out where the Western medicine gets it wrong,” Haines responded. “We live in a country where crap is put in our food that makes us sick, and then pharmaceuticals come in and throw pills at it.”

“So we’re living in a cycle where it feeds the corporate greed to keep us not well,” she added.

Like Haines, Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” couldn’t disagree with Hostin more.

“He’s not just going to come in and ruin the place and just completely ignore science. He’s going to look around and be like, ‘Who is connected to vaccine makers, and why were you on the board over here? And was there proper efficacy checked on this?’” Rubin says.

“Sara Haines, I’ll give her credit, because she’s now repeating what RFK [Jr.] has been saying for really, for 40 years, but particularly in this past year as he was running for president. Which is that there’s a food system designed to make us sick, and a pharmaceutical system designed to deal with the ailments, thus profiting the systems, having nothing to do with the health of the people,” he adds.

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‘Voluntarism and choice’: Why RFK Jr. will succeed where Fauci FAILED



The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just wake American citizens up to corruption in the health care industry but to the figureheads intentionally leading them away from the truth, and ultimately, health.

“When I’m looking around in America, I see ordinary Americans becoming very suspicious of the health care industry, very suspicious of vaccines, they feel like there’s not much they can do other than just say no to things, say no to the junk food, say no to the vaxes,” James Poulos of “Zero Hour” tells Sen. Rand Paul.

“The government needs to turn over a new leaf and try being honest. Because of their vast dishonesty, people are hesitant. People don’t believe the government anymore,” Paul responds.

And that distrust is for good reason.


“It appears as if the government perhaps is more concerned with the profit of Pfizer and Moderna than they are actually with the truth,” Paul explains. “There never was proof actually with children or adults that the vaccine stopped transmission, but there was also never any evidence for children that it reduced hospitalization or death.”

“Why? Because no children were going to the hospital or dying to begin with,” he continues. “In fact, when Anthony Fauci was challenged on this, he said, ‘Well, they show that kids will make an antibody if you give them a vaccine,’ and I informed him that I could give your kid a hundred vaccines, they’ll make antibodies every time. It doesn’t mean they need them.”

While the Democrats are now afraid that RFK Jr. will do away with vaccines all together, their fear is misguided — as RFK Jr. does not plan to eradicate vaccines but rather offer families choice.

“This is the problem with these people,” Paul says. “They’re now advocating for things that seem to enrich a billion dollar company but don’t seem to have factual evidence that it’s beneficial to your child. So now people are distrusting them on everything.”

“There probably are vaccines that your kids should probably take, and it still should be your choice. I’m a big person on voluntarism and choice, but at the same time, people are suspecting everything the government tells them, because we’ve had such a spate of dishonesty,” he adds.

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