Skip to main content
Renata Moon

Renata Moon

Board-certified pediatrician, ACP board member and IMA Senior Fellow, known for 2022 Senate testimony on COVID-19 vaccines in children

Aug 5, 2026

1:19
What did you see as a pediatrician?
1:22
Yeah.
1:22
It's a very sad question really.
1:24
I was practicing in Washington State, and I was working in a clinic, but also working in a hospital as a hospital physician, and also working as a professor of medicine at several medical schools as COVID hit.
1:38
And so I saw what happened in the clinic and in the hospital setting.
1:42
We were not admitting children by any large extent to the hospital with COVID.
1:47
Uh, yes, there were admissions, like there are every year from viruses.

5 MINS LATER

6:55
Tell, tell us about that, but first talk about what happened at the hearing and, and what your message was at that hearing.
3:41
But the transition to communism was never peaceful, was it?
3:46
Well, it, it actually can be somewhat peaceful.
3:48
It, it, it depends on, you know, every, every flavor of communism is a little bit different when it happens in different nations, right? So, uh, it, it can be a hostile takeover.
3:58
It can be a, you know, boom, military takeover, or it can be a very slow, steady infiltration of communism into a functioning society and then the destruction of that society.
4:10
So I wanna take a step back if, if you don't mind, just for one second and say, well, what is communism? Because I think we use that word, and then we, uh, we realize that, you know, we don't all understand necessarily what that means.
4:24
A- and, you know, without getting super political about it and keeping it very basic, my definition of communism would be you are completely and totally under the control of your government as a citizen.
4:38
You lose all of your basic human rights.
7:39
I mean, how else did it affect your family?
46:53
So what is the deal, doctor?
46:56
I think we all want to know, right? I, you know, this is a historic time looking at this website.
47:02
I encourage every one of you to go look at this website, CDC vaccine safety, and it's titled autism and vaccines.
47:09
And what they've said is I'm going to read to you.
47:12
They say the claim that vaccines do not cause autism is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
47:23
And, you know, I'm looking at this over the course of my whole career.
47:28
Back in the early 2000s, when this question was raised by Dr. Wakefield related to the MMR vaccine, we as pediatricians and we as parents and families were reassured that they had looked at this data left and right, backwards and forwards, inside out, and conclusively that there was no link with autism.
50:02
It just seems common sense to me, doctor.

We value your privacy

We use cookies to understand how you use our platform and to improve your experience. Click “Accept All” to consent, or “Decline non-essential” to opt out of non-essential cookies. Read our Privacy Policy.