Trump’s pick to head the CDC, Erica Schwartz, would likely be a disaster — Aaron Siri

media.defense.gov/2019/Feb/25/2002092737/-1/-1/0/CI_6230_10B.PDF https://

media.defense.gov/2019/Feb/19/2002090711/-1/-1/0/CI_6230_3D.PDF https://

dcms.uscg.mil/Portals/10/CG-1/cg112/cg1121/docs/aig/2015/R%20211759Z%20JUL%2015.pdfhttps://media.defense.gov/2019/Feb/25/20

https://cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/images/schedule1983s.jpg(https://perma.cc/E74A-WT3U);

https://cdc.gov/vaccines-pregnancy/hcp/vaccination-guidelines/index.html (https://perma.cc/DAX5-MKSW); https://cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/child-adolescent-age.html (https://perma.cc/TM2U-2HBQ).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3944229/ (https://perma.cc/NGA9-93KW)(“According to data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) [1979-1981] over two million children under 17 years (3.8%) are afflicted by chronic conditions that cause some limitation of activ-ity.”);

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1646496/ (https://perma.cc/KN4A-94TV) (“Data from the National Health Interview Survey indicate that the prevalence of activity-lim-iting chronic conditions among children under age 17 years doubled between 1960 and 1981, from 1.8 to 3.8 per cent.”);

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9551003/ (https://perma.cc/JTZ5-JBNK) (Among “children younger than 18 years who were included in the 1992-1994 National Health Interview Survey … [a] significant proportion of children, estimated at 6.5% of all US children, experienced some degree of disability.”);

https://cdc.gov/chronic-dis-ease/about/index.html (https://perma.cc/N4GT-38L2) (“Chronic diseases are defined broadly as conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both.”);

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21570014/ (https://perma.cc/62JZ-SRY4) (The 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health found that: “An estimated 43% of US children (32 million) currently have at least 1 of 20 chronic health conditions assessed, increasing to 54.1% when overweight, obesity, or being at risk for developmental delays are included.”);

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40058728/ (https://perma.cc/3VHC-L7H2) (Only considering a “condition that is typically pediatric-onset and expected to be persistent or severe” or a “functional/ activity limitation related to a condition that is typically pediatric-onset and expected to be persistent or severe” from the National Health Interview Survey data it found that children falling into this category “has risen from 22.57% in 1999/2000 to 30.21% in 2017/2018”); https://www.cdc. gov/school-health-conditions/chronic-conditions/index.html (https://perma.cc/298V-C59B) (“In the United States, more than 40% of school-aged children and adolescents have at least one chronic health condition”); See Part IV of Vaccines, Amen for additional sources. For relationship of chronic health issues to immune system dysregulation, see among other sources:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30741719/(https://perma.cc/P4L2-9KPZ); https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28849096/ (https://perma.cc/HZ8E-ETE5);

https://pub-med.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39426507/ (https://perma.cc/BTM6-HFF8);

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5373490/ (https://perma.cc/KZS3-5ERS);

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39481220/ (https://perma.cc/H9QN-U2E7);

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10906461/ (https://perma.cc/LV9U-GQKE);

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39681901/ (https://perma.cc/LN7W-ZAX8).

See Part IV of Vaccines, Amen for additional sources. https://cnn.com/2026/04/16/health/erica-schwartz-cdc-director

Leave a comment