Stanley Plotkin had a major hand in the development of a number of vaccines in use today; he designed the rubella vaccine. He remembers the world before widespread use of vaccines & knows what's coming as vaccine policy is rewritten & vaccine confidence is eroded. www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/stanley-plotkin-profile-godfather-of-vaccines-worried/

March 02, 2026 - 14:18 UTC

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I'm also bothered by people deciding to go rogue with his definitions of correlates and surrogates. Things made sense for a while and now you never quite know what people are talking about
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Fascinating article!
Quote: ‘To tell people that they don’t need to be vaccinated is simply promoting disease, (Stanley Plotkin said).
Not only is it stupid, but it’s immoral.’

www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/stanley-plotkin-profile-godfather-of-vaccines-worried/
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No voice is ever *wholly* lost.
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I began corresponding with Dr. Plotkin in 2022. I was the mother of a premature baby with data on pediatric COVID-19 vaccination in Argentina, collected under the Access to Information Act. Dr. Plotkin responded, guided, and advised. This are the results: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264410X24006650
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Dr. Plotkin maintains a trait of excellence and humility, which led him to respond to an email from a stranger written while my baby slept. Forming a transdisciplinary team between Argentina and Brazil would have been impossible without Dr. Plotkin's reading of the first draft.
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