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When Did We Forget What We Knew?

ACIP's Dissolution and how COVID Vaccine Policy Lost Its Way

June 20, 2025

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A Message from Dr. McMillan

After observing the trajectory of the pandemic and its handling over the past few years, one conclusion has become clear: meaningful health progress is unlikely to come from the same voices and institutions that led us here.

Change is never without risk, but sometimes the greater risk lies in clinging to a broken system. There comes a point when the most responsible path forward is to accept the discomfort of starting over.

There are no guarantees of success with change. But without change, failure seems more likely at best.

Now is the time to rethink, rebuild, and reclaim the integrity of health leadership.

Dr. Philip McMillan

In this week's June 20, 2025 update:

  • COVID-19: How COVID vaccine policy lost its way

  • Vejon: This week’s featured Vejon video

  • Health: 5 common habits that damage your liver

  • Infographic: When did we forget what we knew?

  • News: Medical news in brief

  • Education: McMillan - Masterclass Live

    Read time: 6 minutes

FEATURE ARTICLE

COVID-19

  • The value of medical interventions depends on a population's baseline risk, a principle that was later ignored.

  • 2020 data showed children had 18-fold lower COVID hospitalization rates than adults over 65.

  • Policies shifted from protecting high-risk groups to universal pediatric vaccination with mandates and aggressive marketing.

  • Trust eroded when vaccine definitions changed, transmission prevention claims failed, and myocarditis risks emerged.

Why this is important: Mathematical principles in medicine cannot be ignored without consequences. When public health authorities abandon risk stratification and apply interventions designed for high-risk populations to low-risk groups, institutional credibility collapses. This erosion threatens not just current policies but future vaccination programs against genuinely dangerous diseases.

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HEALTH

  • Excessive alcohol consumption overwhelms liver detoxification, causing toxic buildup and progressive damage from fatty liver to cirrhosis.

  • Poor diet with processed foods, sugar, and saturated fats leads to metabolic liver disease and fat accumulation.

  • Overusing paracetamol creates toxic NAPQI buildup when glutathione stores are depleted, potentially causing acute liver failure.

  • Sedentary lifestyle contributes to weight gain and insulin resistance, promoting liver fat accumulation and metabolic dysfunction.

Why this is important: Liver disease often develops silently through seemingly harmless daily routines. Understanding these hidden risks empowers people to make informed lifestyle changes before irreversible damage occurs. Since the liver can regenerate when caught early, awareness of these common habits could prevent serious conditions like cirrhosis and liver failure.

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EDUCATION

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MEDICAL NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

🚥 Viral Sabotage: How COVID-19 Tricks the Immune System into Attacking Healthy Cells: Viral proteins hijacking healthy cells reveals why COVID-19 damages tissues beyond direct infection. This misdirected immune attack mechanism explains severe outcomes and long COVID symptoms, while identifying enoxaparin as a potential therapeutic intervention. The discovery transforms understanding of viral pathogenesis and offers new treatment avenues for immune-mediated complications. [SOURCE]

🚥 Food Insecurity Biologically Rewires Gut Bacteria Linked to Cognitive Decline: Discovering that food insecurity biologically alters gut bacteria linked to cognitive decline reveals how social inequality literally gets under our skin. With 17 million households affected and dementia rising, this gut-brain connection opens new intervention pathways combining nutritional support with microbiome therapies for vulnerable populations. [SOURCE]

🚥 Chronic Stress Contributes to Cognitive Decline and Dementia Risk:
Chronic stress emerges as a critical yet neglected dementia risk factor that could revolutionize prevention strategies. Since stress influences all major risk factors but rarely appears in prevention efforts, targeted interventions could delay disease onset, save hundreds of thousands in costs per person affected, and benefit millions facing unprecedented stress levels.

🚥 Sleep Loss Rewires the Brain for Cravings and Weight Gain: Understanding sleep's direct impact on hunger hormones and brain reward systems transforms how we approach weight management. Rather than relying solely on willpower, these findings reveal sleep as an essential biological reset button that's equally important as diet and exercise for metabolic health.

🚥 Banking Data Reveals Early Warning Signs of Cognitive Decline in Older Adults: Financial institutions possess untapped potential to identify cognitive decline years before medical diagnosis, offering a crucial window for intervention. This research demonstrates how routine banking patterns can protect vulnerable adults from financial exploitation while enabling earlier support systems integration. [SOURCE]

🚥 Simple Therapies Outperform High-Tech Options for Knee Arthritis Pain and Mobility: Affordable interventions like knee braces and water therapy may prove more effective than expensive technologies for arthritis treatment, offering millions a safer path to pain relief without cardiovascular or gastrointestinal risks associated with anti-inflammatory medications. [SOURCE]

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