To the editor: For Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Being our Secretary of Health and Human Services, not only that the Fox saves the chicken coop, the fox is directly invited to the chicken coop. His inability to work and the danger to the health of our citizens was beautifully designed by the columnist Robin Abcarian in his article on the critical role of vaccines and the dangers we face because his validity and importance beloves (“RFK Jr. is dismantling confidence in vaccines, the jewel of the American public health crown.” June 29).
During my pediatric residence decades ago, some of the “veterans” occasionally brought patients who had diseases that we rarely saw due to vaccines, including measles. One night, a small child entered the emergency room and admit it immediately to the intensive care unit because we could see that he had a grave. She died the next day. The infection he had, Haemophilus influenzae type B, is now part of the vaccination schedule. It is estimated that this vaccine has saved 2.85 million lives from 1989 to 2024.
There is little to avoid infant mortality such as vaccines. Although the insurance industry has followed the centers for disease control and vaccine prevention recommendations, paying those recommended by the CDC Advisory Committee for immunization practices, I recommend and I hope they will follow the recommendations of professional medical organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics. Our children and others who receive vaccines deserve this protection.
Linda Randolph, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Operation Warp Speed was a great success that allowed the evidence and generalized distribution of COVID-19 vaccines at the end of the first year of pandemic, 2020. According to A studyIn just the first seven months of 2021, vaccines saved approximately 279,000 lives in the United States.
Now, like Abcare, we have a Secretary of Health that tells Americans to eat healthy while delighting in junk science that mistakenly states that Covid vaccines, along with other vaccines, are harmful.
We must all worry about the transition from our nation of the speed of the Warp operation to what I call “Operation Mind Warped”, a silly opposition to vaccines, and the risks that this poses for our health. And we must all question why the President nominated an unqualified person to be the Secretary of Health and why all Republican senators, except Mitch McConnell, voted to confirm him. It is remarkable that McConnell, a survivor of childhood polyomyelitis, explained his position in saying: “I will not tolerate the relationship of proven priests, nor millions of Americans who prove their survival and quality of life with scientific miracles.”
David Michels, Encino
