The Real Truth About Vaccines

One of the many controversial issues coming out of the Trump Administration is the firing of known doctors and scientists who guided our vaccine programs in our nation. After Kennedy indicated in his interview that he would not change vaccine policy, he brought in a group of anti-vaccine professionals who have now changed our vaccine policy in harmful ways that are not supported by scientific data. He has put our nation at risk. For the first time in our history measles are making their way through several areas. As of today, hundreds have been diagnosed in South Carolina with the disease. His policies will have ramifications not only now but in our future. Congressman Cassidy was part of the effort to have him appointed with the caveat that he would monitor him which resulted in his vote across party lines to support Trump’s desire to have him in that position. Cassidy’s intervention has not happened.

Today it was announced that he is intending to put the most serious warnings on vaccines. The warning will announce that vaccines are life threatening or disabling the people taking the Covid vaccines. You can follow the news to see if there is enough pushback to stop him from doing this.

The truth about vaccines can be found in a video of a lecture to have the most important people in the field of vaccines address the issue of vaccines at Georgetown University Hospital. The lecture, Dr. Mona Mahboubi Global Health and Pediatric and Infectious Disease Lecture, was established to carry forward her values and legacy. Dr. Mahboubi succumbed to breast cancer at the age of 43 in February 2023. The video follows the end of my concluding remarks at her memorial service.

“I believe that Mona was well equipped to battle a frontier that she didn’t choose, her battle against cancer that attempted to define her but could not. She learned of her disease by a phone call sitting in the backyard of her home  when she and her family were celebrating her completion of her residency.

I close with words of Louis L. Amour that would describe Mona’s new frontier as a bookend between her EA Yearbook quotation, her hyphen if you will, when her life here on earth ended. Amour wrote, “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” Mona has embarked on another frontier. She will be comfortable there for she has spent her life on the trail seeking the outer limits of knowledge and achievement and caring for those who needed her healing skills. She started that trail at the Episcopal Academy and ended it at Georgetown University Hospital Pediatrics and infectious Disease Department before moving on to the higher calling of her faith.

But she has left a legacy for all of us…for her family, friends, colleagues, and her students because she will continue to lead us down a trail, a path, if you will, with that question that lies before us, each and every one of us, “Does this trail, does this path that we are all on have heart?” Mona answered it in the affirmative.”

Vaccine Lecture