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HHS-produced address to Gavi questions WHO and Gavi pandemic guidance, cites 2017 DTP study
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An address produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services criticized the World Health Organization and Gavi for pandemic-era guidance and urged the organizations to take vaccine safety concerns seriously, the speaker said.
An address produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services criticized the World Health Organization and Gavi for pandemic-era guidance and urged the organizations to take vaccine safety concerns seriously, the speaker said.
The Unidentified speaker, presented as affiliated with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told the Gavi community that “President Trump and I are committed to earning [public trust] back” and accused the World Health Organization and Gavi of partnering during the COVID‑19 pandemic to “recommend best practices for social media companies to silence dissenting views, to stifle free speech and legitimate questions.”
The speaker also raised vaccine-safety concerns and cited a 2017 peer‑reviewed study, saying that study found girls given the DTP vaccine were “10 times more likely to die from all causes in the first 6 months of life than those children who are unvaccinated.” The speaker quoted the paper, saying it concluded, “all currently available evidence suggests that the DTP vaccine may kill more children from other causes than it saves from diphtheria, tetanus, or pertussis.”
The address contrasted the DTP vaccine with DTaP, saying the developed world had replaced DTP with the “much safer” DTaP vaccine and asserting that Gavi has continued to promote DTP widely in developing countries despite the speaker’s characterization of the research as “compelling.”
The speaker urged Gavi to "re‑earn the public trust" and to justify “the $8,000,000,000 that America has provided in funding since 02/2001,” and said the United States would not contribute more to Gavi “until that happens.” The address called for “evidence based medicine, old standard science, and integrity.”
The speech identified the 2017 study as appearing in an Elsevier peer‑reviewed journal with collaboration involving The Lancet and said it was funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and the European Union. The address concluded with an invitation to “join us in a new era of evidence based medicine,” and was labeled in the transcript as produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
No formal motions, votes, or policy actions were recorded in the transcript excerpt provided.
