Health leaders weigh in on childhood vaccine

Most parents get ready to send their kids back to school. President Trump is recommending changes to childhood vaccines. Fox News Amy Lang is in the studio with a look at that story here tonight, Amy. Well, root vaccine skepticism seems to have reached a fever pitch with 2300 measles cases already this year. That's a 35 year high because people are just not getting vaccinated. Now the president has signed this executive order recommending fewer childhood vaccines and spacing them out over longer periods of time, including the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. But public health officials say the current system works. The combined M. M. R. Vaccine has decades of safety and effectiveness and efficacy data behind it. My job is to help people protect themselves and that includes the latest evidence and guidance which shows that the U. S. Is childhood vaccine schedule is safe, it's effective and it remains the best way to protect yourself and your family. Well, that is Detroit's public health director Ali Abazi. The M. M. R. Vaccine has been in use since 1971. It's been proven safe time and time again. He says this executive order does not immediately change any current vaccine recommendations here in the state of Michigan, and he's encouraging parents to talk to their family physician. He also says, despite a lot of what you heard, vaccines are safe and repeated What we want families to know is that autism is something that deserves serious research. Autism is something that deserves serious resources and that there is no link between vaccines and autism. Bottom line. Everybody's just trying to do what's best for their kids, right? So please talk to your pediatrician, your family physician. Vaccines are not political. They're not partisan. Their job is to protect against dangerous disease and illness. And, you know, one of the things that Ali Abazid said is, you know, skepticism is healthy. Bring your questions to your public health officials, your doctors, etcetera, etcetera. But, you know, skepticism is not the same as misinformation, and there's a lot of misinformation out there. There's a lot of influencers who think they're doctors and they're not. And so, um, you know, really do your research. We saw this after Covid. There was so much skepticism, especially amongst the African American community in Detroit, and they had church pastors and others who are coming out to try to give that information. Because, as you say, it's not about whether you should or you shouldn't. It's having the right information in front of you. Indeed, it is stuff. Amy Lang. Thank you, Amy.