ICWA Weekly News 7-2-25
Rep. Schrier Takes on Secretary Kennedy in Health Subcommittee; Upcoming Events - July 10 VAC Expected to Discuss COVID-19 Shot Recommendations; July 19 Covington Parade; July 23 Dr. Osmunson at FDA
In this issue:
Kennedy Takes on Washington Representative Shrier at Subcommittee Hearing
On July 23, Dr. Bill Osmunson, DDS, MPH, Speaks to the FDA about Fluoride
Other upcoming events:
July 10 Vaccine Advisory Committee - no agenda (yet)
July 19 Covington Days parade fun
June 27 Episode of Informed Life Radio – notes and links
Guest: Leslie Manookian. In early April, 2025, Idaho medical freedom advocates, led by our heroic guest Leslie Manookian, made history with the passage of the Idaho Medical Freedom Act. This new law prohibits all schools, businesses, and state entities from denying “any service, product, admission to a venue, or transportation to a person” based on their medical choices. Tune in to learn how Idaho accomplished this feat and how you can help pass a medical freedom act in your state.
The Greater Good Movie – a documentary film about vaccines in America
The Truth About Contagion: Exploring Theories of How Disease Spreads. Cowan MD, Fallon Morell, Sally
”CDC: COVID vaccines won’t stop transmission; Fully vaccinated can still get, spread Delta strain” article at The Star Democrat
Fact Sheet at White House website: President Donald J. Trump Establishes the Religious Liberty Commission
About Health Freedom Defense Fund, founded by Leslie Manookian
The Washington Vaccine Advisory Committee (VAC) to Meet
On Thursday, July 10, starting at 10:30 am, the Department of Health’s Vaccine Advisory Committee (VAC) is slated to meet.
Its agenda is not published yet. Neither are the connection details. The routine to watch and participate are expected to remain about the same. Please continue to check the VAC Meetings link.
Of interest is the VAC’s sudden emergence as the preferred advisory panel, over the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to which they’ve always deferred. Will this be the committee meeting where they openly and honestly discuss the changes to the COVID-19 shot recommendations for healthy Washington children and pregnant moms?
Tune in. Pre-registration is usually required. Or you can go in person.
ICWA and CHD WA Members to March in Covington Days Parade
Please join Informed Choice Washington and the Washington chapter of Children's Health Defense in the Covington Days Parade on Saturday, July 19! The effort, led by ICWA’s South Puget Sound team, will meet at 9:00 AM for a 10:00 AM start. The marching (walking!) should finish up by 11:00 or 11:30 AM.
This isn’t just a parade—it’s an energizing, high-visibility opportunity to engage hundreds of new people with our message of informed medical choice. With a MAHA tailwind, you can help carry a banner, hand out flyers and ‘healthy’ candy, or just walk with other members of the health freedom movement. The first 30 participants to sign up and show up will receive a cool CHDWA-branded tote or glass water bottle.
Just send an email to lisa@informedchoicewa.org if you are interested or have questions.
Now for our main articles!
Kennedy Takes on Washington Representative Shrier at Subcommittee Hearing
Late last January, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had to deal with Washington Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell during committee hearings in order to be confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Then, last Tuesday, June 24, for the first time in this official position, Kennedy had to deal with Washington Rep. Dr. Kim Schrier (8th District) while testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. [see linked recording starting at 1:56.44]
Before this showdown of Washington interests, Kennedy emphasized the following about the budget:
We must spend smarter. We must shift the funding from bureaucracy to direct impact. We will preserve the legacy programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, as the foundation of the MAHA agenda.
Vice Chairman Neal Dunn, MD, mentioned that sweeping mandates led to mistrust in public healthcare. He asked Kennedy for a timeline for restoring this trust.
“We are going to restore public trust by restoring truth,” Kennedy said. “We’re going to tell the truth to the American people. We’re going to use evidence-based science, gold-standard science.”
Later, he cited the conflicts of interest tainting the recently-terminated seventeen ACIP committee members to New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone:
Pallone, you and I met years ago. You expressed your concerns about vaccine injuries, but since that time you have accepted two million dollars from pharmaceutical companies, which is more than any other member in this committee. And your enthusiasm of supporting the old ACIP committee, which was completely rife and pervasive with pharmaceutical conflicts, seems to be an outcome of those contributions.
Though Kennedy called attention to ACIP’s conflicts of interest, Schrier ignored the point entirely and delivered her prepared statement without deviation:
We rely on the Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices (ACIP), a panel of experts that recommend which vaccines people should get, which ages, and the like. Now, I know Senator Cassidy had concerns about your views on this. So, when he voted to confirm you as secretary of HHS on February fourth, he explained that decision by saying quote, ‘if confirmed, you will maintain the CDC’s ACIP without changes.’ But two weeks ago, you fired all seventeen experts on that very committee. Mr. Secretary, question for you: did you lie to Senator Cassidy when you told him that you would not change this panel of experts?
“I never made that agreement,” Kennedy said.
“So, you’re saying that Senator Cassidy lied on the senate floor to the American people?” Schrier said.
“I didn’t see that statement by Senator Cassidy,” Kennedy said. “I’ve only heard it from you. But if he said that I agreed to it, then that would be accurate. I made an agreement with him, and he and I have talked many times about that agreement—”
Schrier then cut him off:
My time! I just want to tell you that for most of us sitting here right now, we believe Senator Cassidy more than we trust you when it comes to vaccinations. It sounds to me like you gave him the answer that he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, and then as soon as you were secretary, you turned around with whatever you want. You fired all seventeen members.
Hasn’t Schrier read Kennedy’s book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health for a reality check on the ACIP members that he let go?
In his book, Kennedy persuasively explained Dr. Tony Fauci’s disregard for conflicts of interest - and possible outright corruption - concerning the COVID-19 shots:
Dr. Fauci populated the key FDA and CDC committees with NIAID, NIH, and Gates Foundation grantees and loyalists to insure rubber-stamp approvals for his mRNA vaccines, without any long-term injury studies. More than half of FDA’s VRBPAC committee, which approved EUAs for Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer, and granted final licensure to the Pfizer vaccine, were grant recipients from NIH, NIAID, BMGF, and pharmaceutical companies. More than half the CDC’s ACIP committee participants were similarly compromised.
Returning to the committee hearing, Kennedy simply responded, “I’m complying with all the agreements that I made with Senator Cassidy.”
Schrier cut him off again:
Mr. Secretary, you are now on the record that you lied to Senator Cassidy. You have lied to the American people. You have lied to parents about vaccines for twenty years. And I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every death from vaccine-preventable illness at your feet.
Speaking of vaccines, it should be noted that this same Kim Schrier was a co-sponsor in January 2024 of H.R. 3633, which would have created a marketing campaign for HPV vaccination and testing to the tune of $5 million annually for the next four years and increase funding for breast and cervical cancer testing. We covered her marketing campaign of the bill’s marketing campaign in February of 2024.
So, as expected, Schrier acted out her vaccine marketing campaign during the subcommittee hearing when she tried to grill Secretary Kennedy:
On May 27, you posted a sixty-second video on your X account unilaterally changing vaccine recommendations without consulting the customary panel of experts. As a pediatrician, I find that extremely alarming. So, I thought we’d talk about some vaccine preventable diseases.
Schrier could have noted that those vaccine recommendations were only for the COVID-19 shots.
She then bulled (or bullied) ahead with a series of leading questions on other vaccines, starting with what else but measles:
Schrier: Have you ever treated measles?
Kennedy: No.
Schrier: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable it is. These kids have high fevers, struggle to breathe, they cry, and they suffer.”
If Kennedy had the chance, he could have rebutted that over the past decade only one measles death has occurred—a measles death because blood tested positive for measles virus after death—as opposed to VAERS reports of seventy-three deaths following the measles vaccines.
Four of those deaths have occurred here in Washington.
But Schrier pushed forward.
Schrier: The great news is there is a vaccine to prevent it. Secretary Kennedy, again a yes or no question. Have you ever treated bacterial meningitis?
Kennedy: No.
Schrier: Well, I have. These babies are so sick. They come into the emergency room with high fevers. They are floppy. And we have to figure out why. Do you know how we figure out whether a baby has spinal meningitis? We insert a needle between vertebrae. The fluid that surrounds the spinal cord drips out into a test tube. It’s called the spinal tap. We used to do lots of them. Fortunately, we don’t have to do many of these anymore because we have three vaccines that prevent childhood meningitis. These vaccines are miracles.
Are meningitis vaccines so miraculous that VAERS reports 50,862 adverse events after the jabs, including 280 deaths?
Or how about 705 adverse events here in Washington, including one death?
But Kennedy was never given the chance to provide a rebuttal, for Schrier remained at full throttle with her questioning:
Schrier: Secretary Kennedy, yes or no, have you ever treated pertussis or whooping cough?
Kennedy: No, I haven’t.
Schrier: Well, I have. In infants, in fact, the one I treated, a few weeks old came in because the baby just stopped breathing and turned blue. Let me tell you how scared those parents were. I’ve treated a bunch of older kids with it. They cough so hard, they vomit. They run out of air. They break ribs. If you don’t catch it before two weeks, antibiotics don’t even work. They cough for months with broken ribs, and that is why it is called a one hundred day cough. But do you know what’s great. There’s a vaccine that prevents this. Of course, here’s the thing. They seem to only work if you give them, and we know your record on this.
Perhaps Schrier needs to have a talk with her own state’s Department of Health about DTAP vaccines’ prevention of infection, for ICWA noted the following:
The DOH doesn’t provide the vaccination status of the 170 confirmed or suspected cases, except for infants. They report “Of the 29 infants who had pertussis so far in 2024: 25 were old enough to have received a dose of pertussis-containing vaccine, and 4 (14%) had received at least one dose.” Since the vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission, and outbreaks occur in fully vaccinated populations, DOH should not assume a 100% vaccination rate would have prevented the 25 from infection. But they should understand—if they are keeping up on the science—that the 25 infants who were not vaccinated and who experienced pertussis now have naturally acquired immunity, while the 4 who are vaccinated and got sick anyway, are still susceptible to infection because of the immune-skewing effects of the shots. See the Cherry study.
For a more detailed and accurate analysis of the pertussis vaccine, Schrier should study Suzanne Humphries’s findings in her book Dissolving Illusions:
Immunization against pertussis, which was introduced at a time when mortality from the disease had been falling steeply for 70 years, made a much less convincing impact … the death rate had fallen very substantially before 1957, and there was relatively very little room for improvement.
Humphries then quoted Dr. Justus Ström in 1960:
It may be questioned whether universal vaccination against pertussis is always justified, especially in view of the increasingly mild nature of the disease and of the very small mortality.
Humphries also brings up some of the history of adverse events from the pertussis vaccine:
Very early on, there were indications of problems. A 1946 article discussed twin boys aged 10 months (D. M. and G. M.) who both died on June 19, 1945, after receiving their second injection of diphtheria and pertussis vaccine.
After the second immunizing injections, both infants cried considerably on reaching home; they vomited and consumed excessive amounts of water, each taking about two full bottles. They then “feel asleep” and when next noticed by their parents appeared “lifeless.” … At 11:30 p. m. when his diaper was changed, he was found to be ice cold and wringing wet with perspiration. The parents explained that they regarded these symptoms as expected effects of the injections and therefore did not summon medical aid until 5:30 a.m., when D. M. appeared to be dead and G. M. gravely ill. [498]
A 1948 article in Pediatrics discussed cases of brain damage following use of the vaccine. The article is hauntingly similar to the large number of cases of autism that would escalate decades later. The children, mostly boys, had been developing normally and showed no problems prior to receiving the vaccine. They manifested “acute cerebral” symptoms within hours of injection. A regression or “failure of further development” occurred afterwards.
Inspection of the records of the Children’s Hospital for the past ten years has disclosed 15 instances in which children developed acute cerebral symptoms within a period of hours after the administration of pertussis vaccine. The children varied between 5 and 18 months in age and, in so far as it is possible to judge children of this age range, were developing normally according to histories supplied by their parents. None had convulsions previously … Twelve of the children were boys and three were girls, a sex difference also encountered in relation to other substances, such as lead, causing gross injury to the developing nervous system. At inoculation time, the children varied in age between 5 and 18 months. Developmental data were obtained in detail on all but two of the children, whose mothers simply stated that they had developed normally. Reference to the case histories showed that such objective activities such as sitting, walking, and talking had appeared in many of the children prior to the inoculations; and the regressions or failure of further development occurred after the encephalopathies [any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain] in several instances. In so far as it was possible to judge none of the children were defective prior to their acute illness. [499]
The authors discussed these children’s cases at length. At the end of their paper, they conclude that the risk of the vaccine seems too great if the only thing to be avoided was “the average attack of pertussis.” At the time of their paper, death from whooping cough had become relatively rare.
Humphries also wrote that Dr. Ström detailed the neurologic problems after vaccination and noted that complications were higher from vaccination than from naturally acquired disease.
In Sweden, as in several other countries, neurological complications after pertussis (triple) vaccination have been observed. A nation-wide investigation showed that 36 cases of such complications had occurred in about 215,000 vaccinated children (1 in 6,000) during 1955-8. Most of these consisted of convulsions, coma, or collapse, and the children were restored to health; but there were four deaths, of which two were sudden, and nine cases indicative of encephalopathies with severe lesions (1 in 17,000). An investigation of the incidence of neurological complications after pertussis [natural disease] showed that this was not so high as after vaccination.
Dr. Ström was not the only professional calling for discontinuation of pertussis vaccination. In 1981, Dr. Gordon Stewart stated that vaccination was not justified because most cases of whooping cough were mild and recovery provided lasting immunity.
The above leads one to wonder whether Schrier has ever considered the safety concerns about the pertussis vaccines.
VAERS has recorded 193,437 adverse events in the United States to pertussis vaccines.
In the United States, 3,396 deaths have occurred following a pertussis vaccine product.
In Washington, 4,846 adverse events have occurred following the pertussis vaccine.
In Washington, fifty-seven deaths have occurred following the pertussis vaccine.
Apparently, Rep. Schrier, MD, continues to walk on the thinning ice of vaccine orthodoxy without any apparent research to explain her stance. Meanwhile, 60% of parents support a review of the childhood vaccine schedule, and the CDC’s ACIP has initiated such a review.
Bill Osmunson Scheduled To Speak To the FDA
Retired dentist Bill Osmunson has been petitioning the FDA for sixteen years, asking to present to them the hazards of fluoride. This month, he’s getting that chance.
Dr. Osmunson has been invited to speak and present slides at a public meeting hosted in Maryland by the Reagan-Udall Foundation in cooperation with the FDA. The meeting examines clinical use and safety concerns surrounding ingestible fluoride products for children. (Did you know that prescription fluoride drops and tablets, marketed in the US since the 1940s, have never been reviewed or approved by FDA for safety, effectiveness, or quality?) Other practitioners, however, such Dr. James Bekker of the University of Utah School of Dentistry, will present pro-fluoridation messages.
Dr. Bill is also registered for a three-minute public comment during the proceeding in case time permits. Both written and virtual public comment can be given by members of the public on July 23, 2025. Registration is due by 2 PM Pacific on July 9, but spots may be limited to those who register first.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary will be speaking at this meeting as the Reagan-Udall Foundation facilitates public input to the FDA and from the FDA.
On the June 20 episode of Informed Life Radio, guest Dylan Moore discussed the inception of fluoride as an additive from the same Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb. Dylan provided many resources to inform your comments.
Article: “The Manhattan Project's Secret Wartime Conference on Fluoride Toxicity” - Fluoride Action Network
Interview (1 hour): ”The Fluoride Deception: How a Nuclear Waste Byproduct Made Its Way Into the Nation’s Drinking Water” | Democracy Now!
Christopher Bryson’s The Fluoride Deception dives into this is great detail in Chapter Six titled, “How the Manhattan Project Sold Us Fluoride.”
The chapter begins with an introductory summary:
For half a century assurances from the Public Health Service that water fluoridation is safe have rested on the results of the 1945 Newburgh-Kingston Fluorine-Caries Trial, in which the health of children from the fluoridated town of Newburgh, New York, were compared for ten years with children from neighboring nonfluoridated Kingston. But recently declassified documents link the wartime Public Health Service’s interest in fluoride to the Manhattan Project. And a trail of papers showing how bomb-program scientists from the University of Rochester secretly monitored the Newburgh experiment, studying biological samples from local citizens— citizens—and crudely manipulating at least one other wartime study of fluoride’s dental and toxic effects—suggests that Newburgh was simply another cold war human experiment, serving the interests of the nuclear industrial state.
Although Bill Osmunson has never raised this point during his public comments at Washington Board of Health meetings, he has read Bryson’s book and calls it “amazing and powerful.”
Bryson makes the following points about uranium hexafluoride (alert: Wikipedia links lie ahead):
Uranium hexafluoride, sometimes called hex, is the inorganic compound with the formula UF₆. Uranium hexafluoride is a volatile white solid that is used in enriching uranium for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
As one of the most volatile compounds of uranium, uranium hexafluoride is relatively convenient to process and is used in both of the main uranium enrichment methods, namely gaseous diffusion and the gas centrifuge method.
Wikipedia states, "There have been several accidents involving uranium hexafluoride in the US, including a cylinder-filling accident and material release . . . in 1986 where an estimated 29,500 pounds of gaseous UF6 escaped."
If uranium hexafluoride is processed for nuclear fuel and handled with extreme caution, it raises a broader question: can any fluoride compound truly be benign in biological systems?
Thank you for reading!
Here’s our favorite tweet of the week:
> Apparently, Rep. Schrier, MD, continues to walk on the thinning ice of vaccine orthodoxy without any apparent research to explain her stance.
Research? RESEARCH?
My good man, she doesn't need RESEARCH. She has histrionics and waving the cave-wall-shadow-puppets of CHILDREN CRYING AND SUFFERING.
That is what females like she, and Tennis Shoe Mommy Murray, and ex-Tech-Sister Cantwell are there for. To wrangle the profit cattle via dollops of thick creamy emotion.
While implicitly/indirectly reminding the sinecure-holders in the Permastate caste that they'd better toe the line and go along with this week's messaging. Otherwise Bad Orange Man will take away their jobs. And they'll have to find other jobs, like they used to ridicule out-of-work steelworkers and coal miners. Jobs like, you know, bending conduit, pulling cable, laying pipe, driving forklift, truck, or tractor.
Imagine your average public school/college teacher or 300-lb AFSCME member doing any of that.
Also I assume you are aware that AFSCME has been gradually being converted into a "health" "care" "workers" union, right?
https://www.afscme.org/about/jobs-we-do/health-care-workers
Kaiser Permanente in particular has been delivering thousands of dues-payers to AFSCME.
Does anyone else get a Microsoft Blue screen refusal when trying to open the VAC agenda? https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/VACMeetingAgenda-20250710.pdf