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华盛顿讯 美国国立卫生研究院主任杰伊·巴塔查里亚博士周日就疫苗问题表示“我相信科学”。目前麻疹病例数已升至35年来最高水平，引发部分家长对子女今年秋季返校的担忧。
“我认为，对于大多数孩子，尤其是麻疹疫苗、白百破联合疫苗以及所有标准儿童疫苗来说，家长为孩子接种疫苗非常重要，”巴塔查里亚在《与玛格丽特·布伦南面对全国》节目中说道。
巴塔查里亚近几个月还同时担任美国疾病控制与预防中心代理主任，他表示：“我给出的建议是——我已经为我的孩子接种了疫苗。”
“如果你想保护孩子免受这类可预防疾病的侵害，没错，你应该为孩子接种疫苗，”他说。“但更重要的是，这些孩子应该去上学。”
巴塔查里亚提及了新冠疫情以及公众对公共卫生官员和机构的信任流失。他认为，当时让家长害怕送孩子上学是一个“巨大的错误”。在他鼓励家长为孩子接种疫苗的同时，他表示：“如果你四处散播恐慌，说‘哦，如果你送孩子上学，你可能会接触到未接种疫苗的孩子’，这是错误的，这会加剧公众信任的缺失。”
“这是一个巨大的错误，”他说。“你为孩子接种疫苗，就能保护孩子免受这些风险的影响，无论这些风险是什么。”
根据美国疾控中心的数据，近年来麻疹病例数升至数十年来最高水平，在2024-2025学年，仅有10个州的幼儿园儿童麻疹疫苗接种率达到了所谓群体免疫所需的95%以上阈值。当玛格丽特·布伦南追问拜登政府可以采取哪些措施时，比如全国范围内广泛宣传美国卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪上周在有线电视新闻网发表的家长应为孩子接种麻疹疫苗的言论，巴塔查里亚表示：“我已经尽我所能去做这件事了。”
“每当有人问我是否应该为孩子接种麻疹疫苗时，我都会这么说，”他说。“保护孩子免受麻疹侵害的最佳方式就是接种麻疹疫苗。”
巴塔查里亚指出，他在2月份担任疾控中心代理主任后的首批行动之一就是出镜建议，结束南卡罗来纳州麻疹暴发的最佳方式是让儿童接种疫苗，并表示“南卡罗来纳州的暴发现在已经结束，部分原因就在于此。”
巴塔查里亚强调，部分州的暴发已经得到控制。
“得克萨斯州的大规模暴发现在已经得到控制；亚利桑那州和犹他州的大规模暴发也已得到控制；南卡罗来纳州也是如此，”他说。“现在，我们看到弗吉尼亚州出现了暴发，病例数再次大幅下降，宾夕法尼亚州也出现了暴发。我们需要重点关注风险最高的特定社区，同时也要传递更广泛的信息：儿童接种麻疹疫苗非常重要。”
巴塔查里亚发表上述言论之前，有报道称白宫正在起草一项关于儿童疫苗与自闭症的行政命令。巴塔查里亚将行政命令的细节问题推给白宫，指出“我无法具体告诉你命令内容是什么，因为我认为命令还没有最终敲定。”但他强调，总统和卫生与公众服务部部长“深切关注”自闭症发病率上升的问题。
“作为国立卫生研究院主任，我一直致力于确保我们拥有能够解答自闭症发病率上升这一复杂问题的科学研究，”巴塔查里亚说。“这不会是一个简单的答案。”
他补充道：“如果你以科学家的身份问我，我是否知道自闭症发病率上升的原因，我会告诉你，我不知道这个问题的答案。而这个问题被如此紧密地与‘疫苗是否导致自闭症’绑定，事实是，这会向科学家传递一个信号：如果你在这个课题上研究得出了‘错误’的结论，你将会身败名裂。”
“建立公众信任的方式是，让人们在不被政治裹挟的情况下进行讨论和思考，”巴塔查里亚说。“作为国立卫生研究院主任，我一直尽我最大的努力做到这一点。”
肯尼迪长期以来一直批评疫苗，并宣扬早已被推翻的疫苗与自闭症之间存在关联的说法。
巴塔查里亚：我相信疫苗科学
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nih-director-dr-jay-bhattacharya-says-i-trust-the-science-on-childhood-vaccines/
美国国立卫生研究院主任杰伊·巴塔查里亚博士谈儿童疫苗：“我相信科学”
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NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says “I trust the science” on childhood vaccines amid measles outbreak
August 9, 2026 / 3:41 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, said on Sunday that “I trust the science” on vaccines, as measles cases have risen to their highest levels in 35 years, sparking concern among some parents about their children returning to school this fall.
“I think that parents,for most kids, especially for the measles vaccines, the DTP, all the standard childhood vaccines, it’s very important that parents vaccinate their kids,” Bhattacharya said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan”.
Bhattacharya, who’s also been serving as acting CDC director in recent months, said “I’m giving my recommendation — I’ve vaccinated my kids.”
“I think if you want to protect your kids from these sort of preventable diseases, yes, you should vaccinate your kids,” he said. “But it is even more important that these kids go to school.”
Bhattacharya pointed to the COVID-19 pandemic and the loss of trust in public health officials and institutions. He argued that it was a “tremendous mistake” to cause parents to fear sending their kids to school at the time. And as he encouraged parents to vaccinate their children, he said “it is a mistake, and it contributes to lack of public trust if you sort of fearmonger around, ‘Oh, if you send your kids to school, well, you might be around unvaccinated kids.’”
“That’s a tremendous mistake,” he said. “You vaccinate your kids, you can protect your kids from those risks, whatever they are.”
As measles cases have risen to their highest rates in decades in recent years, just 10 states had measles coverage rates among kindergarteners above the 95% threshold required for so-called herd immunity during the 2024-2025 school year, according to the CDC. When pressed by Margaret Brennan about what the administration can do, like a national push to share widely HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s message that he shared on CNN last week that parents should get their kids vaccinated against measles, Bhattacharya said “I’ve done my best to try to do that.”
“Every time anyone’s asked me about vaccinating their kids for measles, I say exactly that,” he said. “The best way to protect your kids from measles is to get the vaccine for measles.”
Bhattacharya noted that one of his first actions as acting CDC director in February was to go on camera and recommend that the best way to end the measles outbreak in South Carolina was for kids to get vaccinated, saying “the outbreak has now ended in South Carolina in part because of that.”
Bhattacharya stressed that outbreaks in specific states have been addressed.
“Big outbreak in Texas, which has now been addressed; big outbreak in Arizona and Utah, that’s been addressed; South Carolina, that’s been addressed,” he said. “Now, we saw there’s an outbreak in Virginia, again coming down sharply, and now Pennsylvania. It’s specific communities of people that are the highest risk that we have to focus on, as well as the broader sort of message that it’s important for children to be vaccinated for the measles.”
Bhattacharya’s comments came after reports the White House is drafting an executive order on childhood vaccines and autism.Bhattacharya deferred to the White House on the details of the executive order, noting that “I won’t be able to tell you specifically what’s on it because I don’t think it’s done yet.” But he stressed that the president and HHS secretary care “deeply” about the rise in autism.
“I, as NIH director, have been focused on making sure that we have science that addresses that very complicated question about why we’ve seen a rise in autism,” Bhattacharya said. “It’s not going to be a simple answer.”
He added, “If you ask me, as a scientist, do I know why we’ve seen this rise in autism, I’ll tell you, I don’t know the answer to that question. And the fact that it gets so tied up with OK, is it is it vaccines not vaccines, what it does is it sends a signal to scientists that if you work on this topic, you’re going to get destroyed if you get the wrong answer.”
“The way you build public trust is, allow people to talk and think without that kind of sort of political overlay,” Bhattacharya said. “I’ve tried my very hardest as NIH director to allow that to happen.”
Kennedy is a longtime critic of vaccines, and has promoted the previously debunked connection between vaccines and autism.
Bhattacharya: “I trust the science” on vaccines
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nih-director-dr-jay-bhattacharya-says-i-trust-the-science-on-childhood-vaccines/
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says “I trust the science” on childhood vaccines
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