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Bird Flu Die-Off and FDA Monitoring Update

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Brief overview

A judge undid Kennedy's vaccine overhaul as measles, RSV and new COVID data all argue for vaccination.

  1. Court restores the childhood vaccine scheduleJudge Murphy stayed the CDC schedule change, 13 ACIP appointments and every vote that panel took.
  2. Folding VAERS into AEMS worries the cliniciansDaniel fears the vaccine signal gets lost inside a consolidated, AI-driven system covering food, devices and tobacco.
  3. Vaccination cuts cancer, hospitalization and long COVID riskThe Cell paper shows vaccination mitigates virus-accelerated lung tumours; COVID shots halved hospitalization and cut long COVID sharply.
Executive Summary AI
  • TWIV episode 1306, recorded March 19th, 2026, has Vincent Draconello and Daniel Griffin opening on a coronavirus tie, a Carl Sagan quote, and a mass die-off of Canadian geese from bird flu on Long Island's north shore.0:10
  • Daniel reports the FDA is replacing its adverse event reporting system FAERS with an AI-powered AEMS that will absorb VAERS along with food, device, tobacco and cosmetics reporting, and both hosts distrust Commissioner Marty Makary's claim that the old systems wasted millions of taxpayer dollars.4:26
  • Judge Murphy's 45-page decision stays the CDC's January 5th cut to the childhood immunization schedule, stays the appointments of 13 ACIP members and all their votes, finding the committee unlawfully constituted after Kennedy removed all 17 independent experts and that most of the 15 current members appear distinctly unqualified.9:28
  • On the numbers: South Carolina measles sits at 997 confirmed cases and Utah at 443, with the Hopkins tracker at 1,513 against CDC's 1,362; flu is finally coming down but over 100 children died this winter, and RSV is still rising at the 36th week from July.16:25
  • The science segment covers a Cell paper showing severe respiratory viral infection primes accelerated lung cancer growth while vaccination mitigates it, a South Carolina cohort of 30,080 showing 41% effectiveness against ED visits and 46% against hospitalization, and a Quebec study putting vaccine effectiveness against long COVID at 91% and 87% pre-Omicron.23:23
Key Quote
“science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge.”
— Daniel Griffin1:52
Key Quote
“I don't believe that they've lost millions of dollars with a reporting system.”
— Vincent Draconello5:52
Key Quote
“And so CDC is not counting all the measles cases. Does that shock you, Vincent?”
— Daniel Griffin17:19