FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Our Message to Secretary Kennedy:
America is not Denmark. The new vaccine regimen announced by Health and Human Services (HHS) is risky, irresponsible, and reckless. With no evidence to suggest otherwise, respected U.S. scientific experts tell us that these actions will put young children at grave risk of life-stunting infections and illnesses.
Denmark and the other countries with weaker vaccine requirements that were used as an excuse to appease those peddling unfounded vaccine theories don’t welcome 66 million foreign visitors a year, nor are they nations like the U.S. where a substantial portion of families move many times in a child’s life.
Instead of relying on the science that has saved hundreds of thousands of American lives and prevented epidemics of childhood diseases, HHS cherry-picked data from countries that mostly are smaller than most American states. For instance, Denmark’s population is half that of Pennsylvania.
Fortunately, due to the level-headed leadership in Pennsylvania, the Department of Health remains committed to legitimate science recommending the current preventative and proven comprehensive vaccination schedule, so parents have clear guidance on what’s best for kids.
We suggest that if Secretary Kennedy wants to replicate strategies from Denmark or other European nations aimed at improving the lives of children, he would address the number one killer of American children and adopt their national policies that prohibit the ownership of handguns and other sane gun control measures.
Further, instead of standing by idly as the President’s budget-cutters take an axe to Medicaid, the Secretary should note that most of the countries in his team’s vaccine survey ensure that every child has free access to health care and make the same true in the USA.