His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade
A visit with a family in mourning
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RFK, Jr.: Anti-vax HHS Secretary
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Every anti-vaxxer has blood on their hands.His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade
A visit with a family in mourning
LOL, seriously?
So anyone who doesn't vaccinate their child has blood on their hands because this guy didn't - due to his crazy religious beliefs?
C'mon...
Let me clarify. Everyone who advocates that children should not be vaccinated for any reason other than medical has blood on their hands. One child dying needlessly from a preventable disease is too many, especially as a result of nutty conspiracy theories and/or foolish religious beliefs. All those who make it the least bit socially acceptable to not vaccinate children are responsible.
Newborns exposed to measles in Texas hospital
Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.
Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital
Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.
yeah i remember the 90s outbreak. We all had to go get booster shots, especially if you wanted to attend college or the military.
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Kennedy’s Alarming Prescription for Bird Flu on Poultry Farms
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip.
Instead of culling birds when the infection is discovered, farmers “should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it,” Mr. Kennedy said recently on Fox News.
Kennedy’s Alarming Prescription for Bird Flu on Poultry Farms
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip.
Instead of culling birds when the infection is discovered, farmers “should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it,” Mr. Kennedy said recently on Fox News.
I nominate Kennedy and his immediate administration colleagues to go through the slaughter house and test each chicken to see if they have Bird Flu and clean up the dead ones.
He's used to handling and disposing of dead things like bears in Central Park, so this is right up his alley. No blue font needed.
Our fedgov is so screwed up it's ridiculous.
RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say
Much of the federal government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates have been run through the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.
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RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say
The entire staff of the federal government's Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy is expected to be laid off, multiple federal health officials told CBS News Friday. The moves are part of a broader restructuring plan ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that involves cutting 20,000 HHS positions.
Is anyone surprised? The pro-disease, anti-vax movement furthers its control over US health policy.
1/ A study by Dr. Peter Hotez and colleagues estimates that over 200,000 Americans died needlessly during the COVID-19 pandemic—due to vaccine refusal fueled by disinformation. This thread breaks it down.
RFK Jr.:
I came to Gaines County, Texas, today to comfort the Hildebrand family after the loss of their 8-year-old daughter Daisy. I got to know the family of 6-year-old Kayley Fehr after she passed away in February. I also developed bonds with and deep affection for other members of this community during that difficult time. My intention was to come down here quietly to console the families and to be with the community in their moment of grief.
I am also here to support Texas health officials and to learn how our HHS agencies can better partner with them to control the measles outbreak, which as of today, there are 642 confirmed cases of measles across 22 states, 499 of those in Texas.
In early March, I deployed a CDC team to bolster local and state capacity for response across multiple Texas regions, supply pharmacies and Texas run clinics with needed MMR vaccines and other medicines and medical supplies, work with local schools and healthcare facilities to support contact investigations, and to reach out to communities, including faith leaders, to answer any questions or respond to locations seeking healthcare. Since that time, the growth rates for new cases and hospitalizations have flattened. The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine. I’ve spoken to Governor Abbott, and I’ve offered HHS’ continued support. At his request, we have redeployed CDC teams to Texas. We will continue to follow Texas’ lead and to offer similar resources to other affected jurisdictions.
RFK Jr. claims new research effort will find cause of ‘autism epidemic’ by September
Oh, I think it's likely that he will announce something, but the validity of his conclusion is another matter.
I cannot express to those who do not have relatives (as do I - including my son) with varying degrees of this how painful this whole process is. This is a backdoor way of "it's YOUR FAULT your kid has autism because you vaccinated him/her," despite a plethora of studies showing it has nothing to do with vaccines. And if vaccines were the instrumental cause of autism, how in the hell do you explain the fact that the rate among UNVACCINATED kids is exactly the same?
Way back in the Reagan administration, the Surgeon General was an evangelical Christian named C. Everett Koop. Pro-lifers wanted him to publish a study saying that abortion was more risky to the mother's health than childbirth - but when literally nothing backed that idea, Koop was not willing to attach his name to it. He later was the voice of reason on AIDS, willing to stand right up and declare it "public enemy #1" and "we are going to focus on prevention: first abstinence, second monogamy, third condoms." The point is that Koop -like all of us - had biases that he refused to let control his medical conclusions.
If I had confidence in Secretary Brain Worm to not let his assumptions determine his conclusions, I'd be okay. But we've been searching for a cause and cure for autism for decades now. The idea he's going to tell us that cause in September - barring something ongoing and more character than I suspect he has - is....well, unlikely.
I also find it a bit hypocritical that a bunch of folks in this country who said they would not take a vaccine "developed so quickly" have no problem (mis)citing "studies" that were done quickly just so long as they prove the point the anti-vaxxer wants proven.
Anecdotal: when working in the hospitals during the pandemic, guess what the most common reaction was to "you're Covid positive"? It was to literally beg for the vaccine (among those that didn't have it - which was 93% for most of the peak admissions in our hospital). And every one of them was told it was too late for that.
One more note: I'm heading to move for a one-year contract in Chicago tomorrow, so other than the Braves thread, I may be out for a little bit. I don't want anyone thinking I left the board or got upset about anything. I'll be managing the managers for the first time in my life but below the director.
More stupidity from the idiot RFK:
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This is just a cut for cuts sake:
CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks
The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars.
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This is just a cut for cuts sake:
While I suspect this is an effort to frame vaccines as the issue, I'm hopeful they can figure something else out, such as food additives, which are far more prevalent today than even a few decades ago.
That said, any research that determines when they will have the answer ahead of time is automatically suspect. That, combined with RFKs anti-vax history, leaves me with only a thread of hope.
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