🧵 THREAD: How the ACIP Deviates from the USPSTF — and Why That Matters for Preventive Medicine
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Preventive medicine is supposed to be founded on caution.
When you intervene on healthy people, acceptable harm must approach zero.
Therapeutic care is different — you accept risk to relieve suffering.
That’s the moral geometry of medicine. karlkanthak.substack.com/p/how-the-acip… 2️⃣
The USPSTF (U.S. Preventive Services Task Force) recognizes this.
Its analytic framework measures both benefit and harm at every stage of a preventive intervention.
Each arrow in their model is a question that must be answered with data, not faith.