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> using the government to mandate vaccines like HPV, regardless of effectiveness

It is worth noting that the HPV vaccine is effective: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/safety-effectivenes...

As far as I am aware, mandates have been implemented in only a few places, at the state and local level.

That is true, initially the drug companies were pushing it at the federal level, but there was such a backlash that they backed off and tried to go at it state by state.

This seems like goalposts being moved.

> That is true, initially the drug companies were pushing it at the federal level, but there was such a backlash that they backed off and tried to go at it state by state.

Do you have a source for some kind of proposed federal mandate (excluding DOA bills by a backbenchers, because those mean nothing)? As far as I know, vaccine mandates have always been a state/local thing, usually only tied school entry requirements.

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