As a pediatrician, it is difficult to communicate the extent to which adding yearly COVID boosters to the recommended childhood vaccine schedule damaged many parents’ trust in the rest of the schedule. It increased vaccine hesitancy to a degree I have not seen in over 20 years of… https://t.co/pgObZPEUlt
— elizabeth bennett (@ebennett74) April 16, 2025
The COVID boosters should never have been offered to children, let alone mandated on the vaccine schedule. Early data showed kids were at low risk from COVID, making the push for additional shots a blatant money grab by Big Pharma that should have been stopped. Moreover, the COVID vaccine failed to deliver on its promises for adults. My fully vaccinated father was hospitalized with COVID and nearly died. It was only by God’s grace and Ivermectin that he survived. He received Ivermectin two weeks into his hospital stay, but only after a nurse restrained him overnight, leaving bruises on his wrists, and I confronted the staff. I demanded they administer the Ivermectin I had begged for, threatening to go to the media with photos of his injuries. The medical establishment’s actions have fueled the deep distrust many parents now feel toward the system.
If they’re lying to me about this what else are they lying about
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) April 16, 2025
This is a perfectly fair question for parents to be asking. Any Doctor who is unwilling to admit this is part of the problem.
I do think, for much of my career, things were more objective. Unfortunately it seems that our scientific associations, journals and medical associations completely abandoned objectivity right around when many journalism outlets did, circa 2016. There is no excuse for any of it.
— elizabeth bennett (@ebennett74) April 16, 2025
The Doctors who are willing to admit it and have honest conversations are what may save the medical industry. Good on Elizabeth for being frank about it.
And the fact that it’s on the chart for 6 months and up (every year) but no doctor actually gives it or recommends it unless you ask. Lessens all credibility that it serves a positive purpose.
— Kristin (@stuffthings1100) April 16, 2025
The COVID vaccines? In my blue state area, almost zero parents in my clinic want them for infants, and almost no parents of older children seem to be getting the yearly boosters either.
— elizabeth bennett (@ebennett74) April 16, 2025
If even the blue state parents are not buying it even more, that is bad news for the COVID vaccine.
It's not the "anti-vaxxers" causing hesitancy, it's the "over-vaxxers" https://t.co/KZMBH4YFVh
— Shannon Hoffmann (@shanhof) April 16, 2025
End mandates, restore liability and test outcomes with the unvaxxed - only THEN could informed consent even PRETEND to exist.
— Charles Frohman (@CFroh) April 16, 2025
Until then, ZERO trust. https://t.co/smZqMenZB4
I question everything my doctor recommends me now. As we should. It's a wake up call. And I hate to say that. I'm in my '50s and up to this point took everything that my doctor told me me as the gospel.
— Rockstarfund (@Rockstarfund1) April 16, 2025
I fear it will take decades to fix.
Patients must advocate for themselves or have a trusted family member or friend advocate on their behalf. The medical landscape has shifted, and with a wealth of information readily available online, proactive engagement is essential.
