Experts have criticized a "laughable" report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claiming vaccines have saved 1.1 million lives.
The Aug. 8 edition of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) reproduced a methodology from a 2014 paper published in the journal Pediatrics. The said paper by Dr. Fangjun Zhou, a scientist at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and his colleagues estimated the health and economic benefits of vaccination for the year 2009.
According to the MMWR, routine childhood vaccines – like those targeting measles, tetanus, diphtheria and hepatitis B, among others – have prevented approximately 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations and 1.1 million deaths over approximately 30 years. It also estimated that the injections have also saved the country $540 billion in direct costs and $2.7 trillion in indirect societal costs, such as parents missing work to care for a sick child.
Zhou defended the study, saying that it "shows the substantial impact of vaccines on peoples' lives and the impressive return on the investment in vaccines and immunization services. Even mainstream media praised the report as a "testament to the success" of childhood vaccines and as evidence that the high cost of childhood vaccines is paying off.
But experts who talked to the Defender begged to differ from the MMWR's findings. According to them, the CDC relied on outdated disease and mortality statistics that led to "laughable" conclusions. Moreover, the public health agency ignored the real costs of adverse effects of vaccination in its report.
"The methods are shoddy, the data are untethered for reality and the conclusions are a preposterous fiction," said Toby Rogers, a fellow at the Brownstone Institute. "This study is an advertisement on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry and it should be treated as such."
Other experts also chime in
"If there are two or more conflicted journals to represent the benefits of the childhood vaccination program, you could not find them," said author and Minnesota congressional candidate Mark Blaxill.
"The profession of pediatrics is the delivery channel for the childhood immunization program, that's why it exists. And the MMWR is put out by the CDC, which is recommending the program. So this is propaganda, and it is put out by those parties most interested in defending the outcome."
According to the report, the highest number of deaths prevented was 752,800 from diphtheria. The next largest benefit claimed was over 100 million measles cases prevented, 13.2 million hospitalizations avoided and 85,000 deaths prevented.
But Rogers was skeptical of these claims, telling the Defender: "None of the vaccines available through the Vaccines for Children Program are as effective as the CDC claims. "We know that the mumps portion of MMR [measles, mumps and rubella vaccine] does not work. The pertussis portion of DTP [diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine] does not stop infection nor transmission of pertussis."
Meanwhile, Children's Health Defense Chief Science Officer Brian Hooker noted that the diphtheria mortality rates used for the report were "highly inflated."
"[These numbers were] prior to the development of antibiotics," Hooker stressed. "Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the bacteria that causes diphtheria, is treatable with penicillin or erythromycin."
Blaxill also commented on the report's findings about diphtheria. According to him, diphtheria was "a disease of the horse-drawn economy," adding that C. diphtheriae ifs often found in horse manure. "It's caused by environmental exposures and it's not infectious and it isn't common, really anywhere, anymore," he said.
"In other words, a century of economic progress was excluded. Public health measures like better nutrition, sanitation, hygiene, clean water, indoor plumbing – that's excluded."
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