NYT-Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum (gift subscription)

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The president’s call for removal of the metal from childhood inoculations set off alarms. About half of shots for polio, whooping cough and other diseases would be affected.

Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/h... there is more naturally occurring aluminum in our bodies and in our foods then in the vaccine, 💉 they haven’t the foggy idea what they’re doing they’re gonna kill us all.

— Adrienne (@skybird75.bsky.social) 2025-10-15T19:59:19.648Z

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/health/vaccines-aluminum-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.avzx.2LNCUvu4Kgj4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Federal health officials are examining the feasibility of taking aluminum salts out of vaccines, a prospect that vaccine experts said would wipe out about half of the nation’s supply of childhood inoculations and affect shots that protect against whooping cough, polio and deadly flu.

The review at the Food and Drug Administration began after President Trump listed aluminum in vaccines as harmful during a press briefing about the unproven link between Tylenol and autism.

Aluminum salts have been in vaccines since the 1920s and are added to enhance the immune-stimulating effect against the virus or bacteria covered by the inoculation. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, has been a longtime critic of aluminum in vaccines, which he has suggested is linked to autism.

Vaccine experts said the tiny amount of aluminum salts in vaccines — often measured in the one-millionth of a gram — has a long track record of safety and is essential to generating lasting immunity from disease. Developing vaccines without aluminum salts, they said, would require an entirely new formulation from scratch......

Companies that make childhood vaccines include Merck, Pfizer, GSK and Sanofi. Representatives from some companies said the aluminum adjuvants, or immune boosters, have a well-understood safety record. Replacements would be novel and need to be evaluated one by one against pathogens for each covered disease, wiping out the use of combination shots that cover several diseases.

Several company representatives said they had not heard from federal health officials on the matter.

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1. Let them die

So tired of trying to placate or teach these Aholes. I feel so sorry for the kids, but there is nothing we can do.

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2. People get more exposure to aluminum in anti-perspirants

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3. Why Aluminum in Vaccines Is Safe--And Often Essential

The FDA wants to reevaluate the use of aluminum adjuvants despite a long record of safe use in vaccines

Why Aluminum in #Vaccines Is Safe—And Often Essential
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— Daniel🗽Shook (@fds3rd.bsky.social) 2025-10-19T11:05:56.053Z

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-aluminum-in-vaccines-is-safe-and-often-essential/

President Donald Trump said the aluminum in many vaccines is harmful during a wide-ranging press conference last month. The Food and Drug Administration is now examining the safety of the metal in vaccines in order to determine whether to remove it. But health experts say that the claims have no scientific basis and that taking such a step would endanger the country’s public health.

Vaccines containing aluminum “are incredibly safe,” says Peter Jay Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, who has played a key role in developing vaccines for neglected populations. A wealth of aluminum-containing vaccines are on the market, including those for HPV, hepatitis and pneumococcal disease, as well as the combined Tdap and polio vaccines. Halting their production to make formulas without aluminum “would have a devastating effect,” Hotez says, because the development of new formulas would likely stop the production of current vaccines.

Scientists began using aluminum salts in vaccines almost a century ago as adjuvants, ingredients that are used to help produce a stronger or more effective immune response. They activate parts of the immune system that boost the production of antibodies and T cells against specific invading substances. “Without the adjuvant, you don’t get enough of the immune response, and the vaccine won’t work,” Hotez says of certain vaccines. “It’s absolutely essential.”

Using adjuvants such as aluminum also help make vaccines more efficient by lowering the amount of material needed to produce an immune response, reducing the number of booster shots needed and improving the body’s immune memory of a pathogen. Vaccine makers thoroughly test adjuvants during vaccine development, and the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continuously monitor them after approval to ensure safety.

Dr. Hotez is an amazing doctor who specializes in vaccines.