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Sigh, okay Dr Offit I will take this bait. Let’s remember the other side of the aisle is recommending COVID boosters for everyone over 6 months of age with a booster comprised of variants now less than 20% of cases, with no RCT showing the benefits at large or in subgroups, so not sure the “best science” is informing either side. Project 2025 is indeed an independent blue print whose recommendations can be taken or rejected by the next conservative president. I think it is fair to highlight the use of aborted fetal cells in vaccine manufacture, some Americans do not know this. It is fair to show how distressing this is to many Catholic parents. It is our job as physicians to understand patients not judge their choices as Neanderthal. It is fair to ask the FDA and US vaccine industry to provide alternatives for people of faith for whom this is important, if that is possible. Physicians should know where alternatives exist and where they do not, so thank you for that. I don’t judge my patients who refuse blood transfusions or who question vaccines and their origin. I will always educate them on the benefits of the vaccines to their child, their family and the public at large, but the decision has always been theirs.. The FDA and vaccine industry need to listen sensitively to those who seek a religious exemption, at the very least there is a market there.

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Rational comments will be attacked by the Trolls who seek attention on pro public health Substacks such as the writings of Dr Offit. Just how they derive pleasure from winding up people who care about the wider human health is beyond me; surely more Joy could be had on Truth Social with people of a similar mindset.

But I forget - Joy is now something to hate, as the #KamalaJoy threatens the Orangutan and the Christofascism they long for.

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