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John Stiller's avatar

Thank you, Dr. Offit, for your clarity, courage, and long-standing dedication to science and public health. While others stay silent or, worse, enable dangerous policy shifts, you have spoken out forcefully against the reckless removal of COVID vaccine recommendations for pregnant women.

The most striking detail? Dr. Marty Makary, who just published a paper affirming pregnancy as a high-risk condition for severe COVID, stood smiling beside RFK Jr. as he announced this rollback. Days later, the official recommendation was erased. Makary’s weak attempt to justify this contradiction is not just unconvincing. It is intellectual surrender.

This decision was not science. It was politics dressed up in a lab coat. It puts pregnant women and their babies at risk. We need more physicians like Dr. Offit, who are grounded in evidence and unafraid to speak hard truths.

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Lisa Cornelius's avatar

As a labor and delivery nurse I can say anecdotally that yes pregnancy should be considered a risk factor. I’ve never seen so many pregnant women be intubated in my 18 years, maybe 2 total before 2020, since then, 3 per year? And respiratory disease related death! Shame on RFK. His dad is probably rolling in his grave and I hope

He reads this.

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