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The thesis was known from the very beginning. The rest is just window dressing to justify the outcome.

I still scratch my head about some no-brainer vaccines such as HPV. All upsides, prevents the literal cancer. No downsides.

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HIV was a gift to the Christian right and now that medication has been so successful, things like HPV make up a larger part of what they have left. Helping parents misuse their small power in general but extreme power over their children also plays into the hands of people wanting the corruption of power over truth.

There is no change in the HPV recommendation.

You are not correct according to Reuters. "The new schedule also recommends U.S. children receive a single dose of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, rather than a two-dose course. Recent studies have concluded that a single dose is not inferior to the longer course and noted the World Health Organization also backs a single dose schedule." https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

This clarification is missing from many others sources (such as the AP one I saw from a local news source): https://www.wral.com/news/ap/9b8df-us-drops-the-number-of-va... .

What you are describing is a somewhat routine adjustment and if it's non-inferior... sure. But it sure reads differently in different sources...

Interesting. In context that is not the claim what I am contradicting in the comment chain, despite that it is the literal reading of what I said.

The HPV single dose recommendation was probably coming regardless of who was in office.

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