{"id":9296,"date":"2025-10-15T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2025-12-03T03:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:49:46","slug":"trump-rattles-vaccine-experts-over-aluminum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/trump-rattles-vaccine-experts-over-aluminum\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal health officials are examining the feasibility of taking aluminum salts out of vaccines, a prospect that vaccine experts said would wipe out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccine-safety\/about\/adjuvants.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">about half<\/a> of the nation\u2019s supply of childhood inoculations and affect shots that protect against whooping cough, polio and deadly flu.<\/p>\n<p>The review at the Food and Drug Administration began after President Trump listed aluminum in vaccines as harmful during a press briefing about the unproven link between Tylenol and autism.<\/p>\n<p>Aluminum salts have been in vaccines since the 1920s and are added to enhance the immune-stimulating effect against the virus or bacteria covered by the inoculation. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation\u2019s health secretary, has been a longtime critic of aluminum in vaccines, which he has suggested is linked to autism.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccine experts said the tiny amount of aluminum salts in vaccines \u2014 often measured in the one-millionth of a gram \u2014 has a long track record of safety and is essential to generating lasting immunity from disease. Developing vaccines without aluminum salts, they said, would require an entirely new formulation from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Such efforts take years of careful safety tests, cost hundreds of millions of dollars and could potentially expose thousands of infants to deadly diseases, given Mr.&nbsp;Kennedy\u2019s insistence that new vaccines should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/01\/us\/rfk-jr-vaccine-safety-placebos-covid.html\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">tested in humans against placebos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal health officials are examining the feasibility of taking aluminum salts out of vaccines, a prospect that vaccine experts said would wipe out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccine-safety\/about\/adjuvants.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">about half<\/a> of the nation\u2019s supply of childhood inoculations and affect shots that protect against whooping cough, polio and deadly flu.<\/p>\n<p>The review at the Food and Drug Administration began after President Trump listed aluminum in vaccines as harmful during a press briefing about the unproven link between Tylenol and autism.<\/p>\n<p>Aluminum salts have been in vaccines since the 1920s and are added to enhance the immune-stimulating effect against the virus or bacteria covered by the inoculation. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation\u2019s health secretary, has been a longtime critic of aluminum in vaccines, which he has suggested is linked to autism.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccine experts said the tiny amount of aluminum salts in vaccines \u2014 often measured in the one-millionth of a gram \u2014 has a long track record of safety and is essential to generating lasting immunity from disease. Developing vaccines without aluminum salts, they said, would require an entirely new formulation from scratch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/trump-rattles-vaccine-experts-over-aluminum\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[375,81,1254,1301,1252,51,15,1318],"class_list":["post-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-autism","tag-kakistocracy","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","tag-war-on-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9298,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}