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Re: Religion and Vaccine Arguments

by tim » Thu Jan 01, 2026 12:11 pm

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/ ... ddenly-71c
In memory of those who “died suddenly” in the United States and worldwide, December 22-December 29, 2025

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A survey of the likely global toll of COVID “vaccination,” based on the reports collected by our worldwide team of researchers this past week.

Re: Religion and Vaccine Arguments

by tim » Thu Jan 01, 2026 11:58 am

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/cdc ... ches-human
CDC’s Measles PCR Test Matches Human DNA, Raising Questions About What It’s Detecting

Are some measles PCR “positives” detecting human genetic material instead of measles virus?
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/stu ... n-fliesbut
Study Claims Bird Flu in Flies—But PCR Test Also Matches Fly Genetics

Is the test detecting the fly's own genetics, and does that explain why the authors admit "infectious virus was not detected in this study"?
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/bil ... derna-mrna
Bill Gates' CEPI Revives Moderna mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine Development With $54M Investment After HHS Terminated Funding

Avian influenza jab "mRNA-1018" is in full pandemic flight.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) will invest up to $54.3 million to support a Phase 3 clinical trial for Moderna’s investigational mRNA-based pandemic H5 avian influenza “bird flu” vaccine candidate, mRNA-1018.

The move immediately follows the Gates Foundation’s $3.3 million award to a team of scientists at New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to develop “breakthrough purification technologies” for producing mRNA-based vaccines, which are plagued with contamination and impurity issues.

Bill Gates, through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a co-founder and major funder of CEPI since its 2017 launch at Davos.

A Thursday press release from CEPI emphasizes the new mRNA bird flu vaccine is for “pandemic preparedness,” as this website has been documenting gain-of-function experiments being conducted on bird flu pathogens around the world, warning about the supranational orchestration of a coming bird flu pandemic.

HHS had terminated its multi-hundred-million-dollar commitment to Moderna to produce mRNA-1018 in May, with Moderna vowing to explore “alternative paths for development of the vaccine program.”

Moderna—also Gates-funded—has now followed through on its promise.

This is despite the fact that Moderna submitted data in November 2017 proving their mRNA vaccine lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) accumulate in mammalian liver, spleen, plasma (blood), kidneys, heart, and lungs.

Re: Religion and Vaccine Arguments

by tim » Thu Jan 01, 2026 11:50 am

https://drwojakmd.substack.com/p/medica ... ostly-junk
Medical Journals Are Corrupt and the Research Is Mostly Junk

Most of what your doctor practices is based on fraud.
Even the top medical journals are little more than industry mouthpieces, churning out mostly junk. Believing otherwise would be like trusting cigarette ads from the 1950s.

You’re better off flipping a coin than blindly trusting what’s published in medical journals—and frankly, that’s unfair to the coin. The coin isn’t taking bribes from pharmaceutical companies.

For the credential-worshipping midwits and institutional bootlickers, even editors of the world’s most prestigious journals admit how thoroughly corrupt and dishonest the medical publishing industry has become.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/pertus ... -resulting
Pertussis Vaccine Failure Resulting in Outbreaks Among Vaccinated Children

Politicians blaming RFK, but reality is legacy vaccine is failing to protect children
Pertussis, or whooping cough, caused by Bordetella pertussis, has re‑emerged as a public‑health concern despite long‑standing immunization programs. Global vaccination coverage with diphtheria‑tetanus‑pertussis (DTP or DTaP/Tdap) exceeds 90%, yet cyclical outbreaks continue in highly vaccinated populations. ¹ ² The paradox lies in waning immunity, pathogen adaptation, and suboptimal mucosal protection conferred by the current acellular vaccines (aP). An analysis of these failures, their clinical repercussions, and therapeutic approaches illustrates the limitations of a vaccine that partially prevents severe disease but not transmission.
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/who ... s-to-track
WHO Instructs Governments to Track Online Anti-Vaccine Messaging in Real Time with AI: Journal 'Vaccines'

Believe in vaccines or be targeted.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has demanded that governments surveil online information that questions the legitimacy of influenza vaccines and that they launch “countermeasures” against those who question the WHO’s vaccine dogma, in a November Vaccines journal publication.

The WHO’s largest funders are the U.S. government (taxpayers) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In the November publication, the WHO representatives do not argue for their beliefs in vaccines.

They do not attempt to interact with arguments against vaccines.

Re: Religion and Vaccine Arguments

by tim » Thu Jan 01, 2026 11:47 am

https://www.malone.news/p/the-associati ... an-medical
The Association of American Medical Colleges is the Medical Guild driving DEI and Censorship

The Medical Guild complex is the permanent medical Ministry of Information
Executive Summary:

The Association of American Medical Colleges is the influential nonprofit, non-governmental organization that controls accredited medical schools, teaching hospitals, academic societies, and faculty in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1876, it now serves as one of the key institutional pillars shaping modern medical education, research funding, and physician workforce policy in North America.

The AAMC functions as the nerve center of American academic medicine, coordinating education, advocacy, and policy across nearly all medical schools. Its influence extends far beyond education into government policy, research funding, and cultural direction within medicine.

However, its monopolistic control over entry into medicine, ideological bias, and entanglement with corporate and political interests make it both indispensable and deeply contested in the modern health landscape.

The public-facing AAMC presents itself as a steward of academic medicine. But in practice, it functions as a centralized authority that controls who enters the medical profession while simultaneously shaping medical practice. Through its dominance of admissions systems (AMCAS, MCAT), accreditation (via LCME), and alignment with licensing bodies (NBME and USMLE), the AAMC filters applicants and enforces ideological conformity across medical education. Its modern emphasis on “equity” and “structural competency” has replaced classical clinical rigor with sociopolitical frameworks.

At the same time, deep financial and policy entanglements of the AAMC with both federal agencies and pharmaceutical interests ensure that American medical research priorities reflect institutional and corporate agendas rather than patient-centered inquiry. The AAMC’s consolidation of admissions, curriculum, testing, and funding thus dictates not only who becomes a physician, but also what kind of physician society is permitted to have, how those physicians are allowed to practice, and what medical research is available to guide both physician and patient decisions.

The AAMC operates as a modernized guild that monopolizes entry into and control over the U.S. medical profession through bureaucratic mechanisms rather than medieval charters. Like historical guilds, it dictates admission, standard-setting, internal discipline, and the protection of its members’ privileges. It accomplishes these objectives through centralized admissions (MCAT, AMCAS), LCME accreditation mandates, and ideological enforcement rooted in DEI frameworks.

Working in concert with the NBME, AMA, and state medical boards, the AAMC forms the intellectual and structural core of a vertically integrated guild system that controls medical education, testing, licensing, and professional practice. This alliance ensures that only AAMC-compliant schools can confer valid medical degrees, only AAMC-conditioned students can pass national exams, and only AMA-guided practitioners can maintain state licensure.

The result is a self-reinforcing cartel that insulates itself from external accountability, suppresses dissenting viewpoints, controls the supply of physicians, and perpetuates ideological uniformity under the guise of public service—an updated bureaucracy of the same monopolistic architecture that once defined medieval guild power.

Contrary to Trump administration requirements, the AAMC has not dismantled its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) framework. Instead, it has evolved the prior framework into a covert, self‑perpetuating system immune to political reversal. By using semantic substitution, alternative funding routes, accreditation mandates, and faculty conditioning, the AAMC has effectively embedded fourth‑generation DEI ideology into the DNA of academic medicine.

Terms like antiracism and structural racism have been replaced with bureaucratic euphemisms such as inclusive excellence, contextual competence, and learning environment optimization, allowing medical schools to preserve DEI programming while appearing politically compliant. Through strategic rebranding, hidden budget lines, philanthropic laundering, and enforcement of LCME accreditation, the AAMC ensures ongoing ideological conformity among both students and faculty. So even as federal policies shift, the underlying AAMC/DEI worldview shaping America’s future physicians remains unchanged.

During COVID‑19, the AAMC–AMA–NBME–FSMB alliance acted as the centralized command structure of American medicine, orchestrating a unified narrative that transformed professional compliance into a condition for survival. Functioning as a de facto “Ministry of Truth,” this integrated network controlled messaging, standardized medical curricula, weaponized ethics codes, rewrote licensing rules, and turned national exams into ideological loyalty tests. Thus, ensuring that all physicians parroted government‑approved doctrine.

The AAMC dictated academic language and accreditation standards; the AMA codified them as ethical obligations; the NBME embedded them in exam content; and the FSMB enforced them through licensure sanctions, all while coordinating directly with HHS, CDC, and NIH. This apparatus fused bureaucratic power with academic authority to suppress dissent, reclassify clinical independence as “misinformation,” and eliminate scientific pluralism. What emerged was not evidence‑based consensus but institutional obedience; an enduring system in which political narrative masqueraded as medical truth, and every safeguard of intellectual freedom in medicine collapsed under the pressure of centralized control.

In the post‑COVID era, the AAMC–AMA–NBME–FSMB alliance has seamlessly repurposed its pandemic control apparatus into a new ideological regime centered on “climate health” and “AI trustworthiness.” Under the banner of sustainability and digital safety, the same bureaucratic machinery that enforced pandemic orthodoxy now compels compliance with environmental and technological narratives. The AAMC’s new Climate & Health Education Alliance and revised accreditation standards make “climate literacy” and “carbon mitigation” mandatory core competencies. At the same time, the AMA now codifies environmental activism as an ethical duty. The NBME rewrites exam content to test “climate determinants of health,” and the FSMB extends its misinformation rules to punish dissent on climate or AI policy.

Through this rebranding, the AAMC medical guild is acting to preserve its centralized control, shifting from a viral emergency to a planetary and algorithmic emergency, and maintaining perpetual crisis as justification for censorship, curriculum enforcement, and professional discipline. What was once pandemic obedience has evolved into open‑ended ideological governance over medicine itself.

Re: Religion and Vaccine Arguments

by tim » Fri Dec 26, 2025 9:55 am

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/rest ... onships-at
Restoring Healthy Relationships at the Dinner Table

December's Open Thread
Nonetheless, the division I saw sown beginning in 2016 was completely different from anything I’d seen before and escalated further during COVID-19, resulting in many longstanding friendships and family bonds being split apart over political disagreements. In tandem, a lot of it was so shameless, many still haven’t forgotten it (e.g., consider the gift cards, lotteries, KFC, donuts [which CNN repeatedly promoted] alcohol, illicit drugs and brothel sessions were given away as incentives to get the vaccine).
Likewise, one horrendous tactic the vaccine industry had pioneered with pertussis vaccine suddenly went into full throttle.

In theory, if a vaccine “works” you should be protected from individuals who are infected, including those who never vaccinated. Unfortunately, this is not good for vaccine sales as that doesn’t win over people who don’t want to vaccinate, particularly since a non-vaccinated cohort can serve as a control group that shows the dangers of the vaccine (e.g., the industry has done everything it can to stonewall trials of unvaccinated children, but when conducted, those studies consistently show vaccinated children have 3-10 times as many chronic illnesses).

To solve this, three sales pitches were developed:

1) Eliminating an infectious disease is only possible if a sufficient amount of the population is vaccinated (thereby creating herd immunity). This essentially has never worked (discussed further here), so as the years have gone by (and sometimes even within a vaccine campaign) once the populace can be made to accept the premise of “herd immunity,” the percentage of people who need to be vaccinated is steadily increased, and harsher and harsher penalties are leveraged against those who still refuse to vaccinate (as harsher penalties become more politically viable once they target a smaller and smaller minority).
Note: the two major exceptions to what I just stated about a disease being eliminated were smallpox (which was eliminated primarily because the limited transmission of the disease made it possible to quarantine it into extinction) and polio (because the environmental causes of it were eliminated and the remaining cases reclassified). Additionally, high vaccination rates are necessary for pseudo-herd immunity to measles (a vaccine that does “work”), but that situation is a result of our natural herd immunity to measles being replaced with a temporary vaccine herd immunity which results in measles rapidly spreading in communities the moment vaccination rates dip (or vaccine immunity wanes) and measles is introduced to the community.

2) Stating that even if you are vaccinated, it is not safe to be around someone who is unvaccinated (which is absurd as that effectively constitutes an admission the vaccine doesn’t work). This ploy was refined with the pertussis vaccine and I’ve lost count of how many distraught grandparents I know who were told they could not see their grandchildren because the child’s pediatrician said unvaccinated relatives would endanger the child. In turn, once this pitch proved itself, it was then weaponized against anyone who did not want to get the COVID vaccine, and I now know dozens of people who did not want to but did so they could “safely” be around vulnerable members of society (e.g., clients or relatives) and then developed serious complications from the vaccine.

3) Using similar logic to the previous two, argue that you had a duty to vaccinate so those who could not (e.g., the immunosuppressed) would be protected.

Likewise, Biden’s illegal workplace mandates were justified under the rationale that OSHA had a statutory obligation to protect workers from dangers in the workspace. Therefore, it was necessary to force workers to vaccinate so their vaccinated coworkers could have a safe workspace (which is quite remarkable given that OSHA was created to prevent workers from being poisoned and killed by their employers but instead mandated the greatest workplace hazard in history).
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Note: what is particularly grotesque about this is that both the COVID and the pertussis vaccine do not prevent transmission (as they only reduce symptoms—which if anything makes individuals, unaware that they are infected, more likely to spread the disease). Sadly this unproven (and highly divisive) theory has long been promoted by the medical authorities, but fortunately, ICAN suits successfully ended GSK’s divisive pertussis advertising campaign and ACIP vice-chair Robert Malone recently shared that the new HHS will no longer promote “protecting” children by advocating for banning unvaccinated relatives from visiting them .

Re: Religion and Vaccine Arguments

by tim » Fri Dec 26, 2025 9:45 am

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaki ... accination
BREAKING STUDY: Infant Vaccination Increases Death Risk by Up to 112% vs Unvaccinated

Louisiana Department of Health death records reveal that infants vaccinated at 2 months are far more likely to die in the following month than unvaccinated infants.
A new study by Drs. Karl Jablonowski and Brian Hooker of Children’s Health Defense titled, Increased Mortality Associated with 2-Month Old Infant Vaccinations, analyzed linked Louisiana Department of Health immunization and death registry data to evaluate whether routine 2-month infant vaccinations (administered at 60–90 days of life) are associated with mortality in the subsequent month (90–120 days).

Using individual-level records from 1,225 infants who later died before age three, investigators compared infants vaccinated in the 2-month window with those unvaccinated during the same period, while holding age-at-death constant.

Infants vaccinated at 2 months showed consistently higher odds of death in the following month, with statistically significant risk increases spanning individual vaccines, cumulative exposure, sex, race, and combination products.

Most alarming, infants who received all six recommended 2-month vaccines had a 68% higher odds of death overall (OR = 1.68; p = 0.0043), with the risk surging to +68% in Black infants and +112% in female infants (OR = 2.12; p = 0.0083).

Re: Religion and Vaccine Arguments

by tim » Fri Dec 26, 2025 9:44 am

https://www.malone.news/p/how-long-has- ... ed-vaccine
How Long Has Industry Captured Vaccine Regulation?

By Jeffrey A. Tucker, republished by request of the author
Among the many incredible revelations over the past five years is the extent of the power of the pharmaceutical companies. Through advertising, they have shaped media content. That in turn has affected digital content companies, which responded from 2020 onward by taking down posts that questioned the safety and efficacy of Covid vaccines.

They have captured universities and medical journals with donations and other forms of financial control. Finally, they are far more decisive in driving the agenda of governments than we ever knew. Just for example, we found out in 2023 that the NIH shared thousands of patents with pharma, with a market value approaching $1-2 billion. This was all made possible by the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which was pushed as a form of privatization but only ended up entrenching the worst corporatist corruptions.

Re: Religion and Vaccine Arguments

by tim » Wed Dec 24, 2025 11:21 am

https://dailysceptic.org/2025/12/20/the ... r-maskers/
The Bizarro-World of the Forever Maskers
The Telegraph has a story about the ‘Zero Covid’ zealots refusing to re-enter society. Not only that, but these forever maskers want everyone else masked up in perpetuity too. It’s a remarkable instance of the emergence of a new form of cult based on a surreal new ritual. And just for good measure, it seems that those leaning Left are most likely to be on board:

The claims of links to Covid circulating online amid the deadly chaos were not always proved beyond doubt, but in this climate of fear and confusion, a determined ‘Zero Covid’ community emerged. Co-opting a phrase that was originally an official public health policy, the ‘Zero Coviders’ believed they were watching a massacre in real time, and the maskless – especially those who were unvaccinated – were to blame. As governments relaxed the restrictions, they felt they needed to step up.

“I was like, ‘Okay, this is not right. This is f—–,'” says [Alyson] Hardwick, a second-year university student who does not have any underlying health conditions. The last time she ate indoors at a restaurant was in October 2022 for her 31st birthday. “I felt sketched out [uneasy],” she recalls. “I was leaving every place I was going inside without a mask, wondering, ‘Did I get it?’”

Hardwick began wearing a respirator mask – specialised, disposable facepieces called N95s or N99s which offer more comprehensive protection than a surgical mask – and spending most of her time alone.

She’s ostracised herself from other people and posts thousands of clips online and argues that it’s everyone else, not her, who is living in fear. “Denial is a fear response,” she insists.

Hardwick’s stance exemplifies the increasingly fraught Zero Covid movement – a citizen-led campaign across the Western world to keep the air clean. She is just one of thousands of geographically disparate people, many of whom are not immunocompromised, who are still living in their own self-imposed lockdowns, fearful of becoming one of the millions to suffer with serious long Covid symptoms, or anxious about transmitting the virus to someone less fortunate. Zero Covid has adherents across North America and Europe, including some in the UK, but followers from the US and Canada are the most visible online.

The charged movement to end ‘pandemic denialism’ has some high-profile advocates, including Left-wing US journalist Taylor Lorenz. “If ur [sic] not masking ur absolutely facilitating eugenics,” Lorenz posted to her 350,000 followers on X on December 6th.

“Refusing to mask during an ongoing pandemic is absolutely violent and it’s undeniably participating in social murder,” she said in another recent post, as well as calling out Leftist “super spreader” events. “You are actively *killing* and maiming people around you by intentionally spreading airborne disease during an active pandemic.” (Separately, she pilloried non-maskers for “raw-dogging the air and spewing ur disease laden breath all over ur elderly neighbours”.)

By 2022, the pandemic and the panicked measures were retreating into the past:

But the cautious, despite getting vaccinated and then boosted, couldn’t move on. Online communities became lifelines as in-person social circles frayed. Campaigners pushed ‘clean air’ as the next public-health frontier, and offered seatbelt analogies for masking: mildly inconvenient, obviously protective.

Masking was increasingly framed as an act of love, and it was overwhelmingly Left-wing groups which encouraged – even mandated – their continued use. Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac encouraged continued mask wearing. “I f—— hate the masks, but I wear them,” she said. “People give you dirty looks. I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, ‘Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks.'”

That would presumably be the same Stevie Nicks who reportedly blew a hole through her nose from snorting cocaine. By 2023 mask use was largely discredited, but the Telegraph quotes a Mayo Clinic source:

“People who rebuilt their entire lives and recast their identities around reducing the risk of catching Covid to zero couldn’t deal with this,” one former ardent Zero Covider recalls, speaking to me on condition of anonymity. “The movement devolved into a massive online circle-jerk where members blindly validate each other on taking disproportionate precautions.

One ardent proponent of masking says that’s the way he’ll spend the rest of his life:

“I don’t just, like, go out the way I used to,” says Evan Sachs, who is in his early 30s and lives in New York with his three cats. He always wears a mask outdoors.

“Sometimes it’s a bummer.” Not because masking is keeping him from living his life, he adds, “but because other people [selfishly] aren’t doing the ‘wearing your pants’ levels of easy things” to keep everyone safe. He runs a ‘bloc’ in the Washington Heights area of New York which distributes personal protective equipment (PPE) to less well-off communities. “I do not have Long Covid, thank goodness,” Sachs adds. “I am very, very lucky on that front.”

He doesn’t want to get it either. “I honestly think I would [mask forever],” he says.’

An Austrian doctor called Spela Salomon has no time for non-maskers:

Outside work, she does not spend time with people who do not take equal precautions. “I just don’t feel like I get anything out of hanging around the maskless masses,” she says. “It’s sad and isolating.” In an article published by the World Health Network earlier this year, Salomon predicted that a rising toll of Covid complications would lead to a societal shift in which air quality is recognised as an essential public health priority like potable water. “It is those who persist in denial who are truly living in fear,” she wrote, echoing Hardwick’s sentiment in her social media video.

It appears that the forever maskers have become so dedicated to the cause that they are even fetishizing masks:

US college student Bela waxes lyrical about her powered air-purifying respirator, certified by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. “It blows air out so that no outside air can get in through the edges from a poor fit or seal,” she told campaign group MaskTogetherAmerica.

Meanwhile, Alyson Hardwick is increasingly focused on her “new passion for Covid”:

Getting a booster jab at least every six months is, for her, a necessary response to what she calls a “mass disability event in slow motion” that has completely transformed her life. “I’m rarely ever sharing air with people,” she says. If she does meet up with anyone, it will be other Covid-safe people, outdoors. “I feel safe around them, because they’re also masking everywhere.”

Worth reading in full if only to explore the infinite capacity of human beings to turn any cause into a cult, however bizarre the rituals and customs devised to pursue their beliefs.

Re: Religion and Vaccine Arguments

by tim » Tue Dec 23, 2025 3:31 pm

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defe ... d=20251211
Offit Lied to CNN About ACIP Meeting, Hepatitis B Data. CNN Didn’t Fact-Check Him

Dr. Paul Offit told CNN that the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices didn’t invite him to speak at their meeting last week. However, internal documents show the CDC contacted him by email and phone, and sent him a speaker-request form. Offit also falsely claimed that “50% of people in this country” are chronically infected with hepatitis B without knowing it.
When Dr. Paul Offit appeared on CNN on Dec. 5 to discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) contentious hepatitis B meeting, he spoke with the certainty that has made him one of legacy media’s go-to commentators on vaccines.

Offit told viewers he had not been invited to speak at the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting that was unfolding in Atlanta that very day.

That claim was false.

CDC officials had contacted him repeatedly — via emails, phone calls and a speaker-request form — inviting him to present at the upcoming meeting.

Offit acknowledged receiving a request, but then told the audience he was not invited to attend.

From there, the misinformation only escalated.

He warned viewers that “millions” of Americans were silently carrying hepatitis B, claimed that “50% of people in this country” were chronically infected without knowing it and suggested newborns were at risk through everyday contact with nannies, daycare workers and family members.

None of those claims was true.

But the CNN host did not challenge him. No fact-checker intervened. And once again, a highly amplified “expert” delivered a series of false statements that left the public with a distorted picture of the facts.

Re: Religion and Vaccine Arguments

by tim » Tue Dec 23, 2025 3:20 pm

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/flu ... at-trigger
Flu Vaccines Contain RNA That Trigger Positive PCR Test Results: 'Journal of Medical Microbiology'

Is the "chilling" rise in flu cases nationwide attributable to PCR tests detecting vaccine RNA, not wild virus?
Mainstream news outlets are broadcasting that there is a “chilling” rise in flu cases, with Colorado, Louisiana, and New York experiencing the “fastest increases in influenza cases.”

However, the rise in cases follows flu vaccination campaigns in those states, which raises questions about vaccine efficacy.

But it also raises questions about whether the vaccinations themselves are contributing to the increasing case numbers.

For example, the New Orleans Health Department (NOHD) launched a flu vaccination campaign in early October.

NYC Health Department similarly launched an October push urging all residents 6 months and older to get flu shots.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s (CDPHE) influenza webpage was updated the same month to promote flu vaccination.

These campaigns are meant to increase flu vaccine uptake.

Now there’s a rise in influenza cases, which are counted using positive PCR test results.

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