… Antoine had no reason to think Isaac had anything more than a routine illness—until staff called an ambulance, for speedy transfer to the university children’s hospital.
Why, a panicked Antoine wanted to know. Because, a doctor told him, Isaac might have meningococcal disease.
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His heart stopped three times. Doctors were able to revive him after the first two. They were not after the third. …
… France’s “schedule” … had until recently excluded one of the two available meningococcal shots, each one being necessary for protection against different biological strains.
… Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the CDC would be removing several vaccines from the list that it recommends for all American children. Among those CDC took off the list is the newer meningococcal vaccine ….
Now [the U.S. vaccine schedule is at] the low end, with a recommendation for twelve—or just one more than Denmark, the European country with the fewest.
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But Denmark is an odd choice … given its relatively tiny population of six million people living in a quasi-socialist paradise. A truly “exhaustive” review of the evidence would have also considered some of the larger countries on the continent, especially anywhere the public has been arguing about vaccines or where officials recently changed recommendations.
France turns out to be one such country ….
