“If I had a baby today, I wouldn’t give my child a single vaccine,” a lawyer named Nancy James confided in me this week. Nancy (not her real name) lives outside of Athens, Georgia, and is married to an orthopedic surgeon. The mother of two young adults, Nancy says she has deep reservations about the current vaccination schedule set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Though her worries about vaccine safety pre-dates COVID, her questions about the safety, efficacy, and necessity of the COVID vaccines, Nancy says, have solidified her mistrust of the CDC.