Vaccine Excipient Summary Where Art Thou

Unless you work in the pharma industry, you've probably never heard of the term "excipient."

Excipient is a substance formulated alongside the active ingredient of a medication.

This can include any number of things from fillers, to adjuvants in vaccines, or preservatives. Basically anything that is part of the product, outside of the active ingredient, however; it can also be something that works to enhance the active ingredient.

The reason I bring this up is because of a post from Ann Tomoko Rosen on her Substack On Second Thought. She mentioned in a recent post "Why is the CDC deleting its list of vaccine ingredients."

As far back as at leas 2007, the CDC website had a directly linkable PDF, so people could go lookup what ingredients were in various vaccines that they, or their children, might be required to take. But that link has been removed.

A search with DuckDuckGo still shows the direct link to the PDF, which is now gone.

There is a link to the list on Wikipedia for vaccine excipients, but the Wikipedia article's "factual accuracy is disputed." These notes are from 2011 and 2020. Apparently nobody has been able to update it since then? Also, the CDC (the official source) is actively removing the sources for in-line links -- right now. Someone will have to update the article and provide a link for each of the vaccines in the summary -- one-by-one -- then hope the FDA doesn't move them the next day.

Searching with Google doesn't even get you very far either. Keep in mind that we're looking for "official" sources.

There are links to other resources, but those are not "official" government sites. Neither search engine gets you to the FDA website where the data actually is.

The timeframe in which the CDC removed it's link to the Vaccine Excipient Summary is rather suspicious.

October 25, 2007 is as far back as the Internet Archive goes back for that particular CDC file link.

But something happened in July of this year. Trump called RFK Jr. and talked with him about the child vaccine schedule. The call was very quickly leaked on X/Twitter. And then it was quickly deleted.

On Tuesday, the younger Kennedy — an actor — posted then quickly deleted a video of his father speaking on the phone with former President Donald Trump.

“I am a firm believer that these sorts of conversations should be had in public. Here’s Trump giving his real opinion to my dad about vaccinating kids this was the day after the assassination attempt,” Kennedy III wrote in the now deleted X — formerly Twitter — post, which he claimed he removed “for mistaking sarcasm for real life.”

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In their conversation, Trump riffs at length on his concerns about vaccines — a pet issue for Kennedy, a longtime vaccine conspiracy theorist — discusses his brush with death at a weekend rally in Pennsylvania, and seemingly offers Kennedy a position in his administration.

“Anyway, I would love for you to serve,” Trump tells Kennedy. “I think it would be so good for you and so big for you. And we’re gonna win — we’re gonna win — we’re way ahead of the guy.”

“I agree with you, man,” Trump says. “Something’s wrong with that whole system, and it’s the doctors you find.”

“Remember I said I want to do small doses. Small doses,” the former president added. “When you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines, and it looks like it’s meant for a horse, not a, you know, 10-pound or 20-pound baby.”

This phone call took place on July 14th the day after the Trump assassination attempt. July 14th also happens to be the last day that the CDC website hosted the link to the Vaccine Excipient Summary on their website. But I'm sure it's a coincidence.

Here's a copy of the last version of the file that I could find. I'll also put a list of files at the end of this post as well.

The question then becomes, "Where can I find the data now?" Well, it's still out there, just not in the same places, and not one click away.

As Ann pointed out, the CDC now directs you to the FDA website. You have to scroll way down to just above the footnotes to find this part.

Once on the FDA website, you can locate where they list all of the FDA approved vaccines. You can then click on each one of them and find the package inserts.

I found one more place that has information that might be considered "official," it was on a web page hosted by the Institute for Vaccine Safety, part of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health It is a joint effort by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The data is still out there, but it's not going to be as easy to find. And they will likely keep it moving, making it harder to reference. That's why I dropped those files at the end of this post.

Not a very good look for the CDC with regard to "transparency."

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