ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR.: Measles outbreak is call to action for all of us
MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease
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It is also our responsibility to provide up-to-date guidance on available therapeutic medications. While there is no approved antiviral for those who may be infected, CDC has recently updated their recommendation supporting administration of vitamin A under the supervision of a physician for those with mild, moderate, and severe infection. Studies have found that vitamin A can dramatically reduce measles mortality.
Parents play a pivotal role in safeguarding their children’s health. All parents should consult with their healthcare providers to understand their options to get the MMR vaccine.
The decision to vaccinate is a personal one.
Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.…”
The secretary of Health and Human Services said on Wednesday that the measles outbreak was “not unusual.”
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“Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. backtracked two days after he dismissed the first American child’s death from measles in decades by saying that outbreaks were “not unusual.”
“Ending the measles outbreak is a top priority for me and my extraordinary team at HHS,” President Donald Trump’s health secretary wrote in an X post Friday afternoon.
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Physicians have set off alarm bells about the outbreak that has affected 100 people in West Texas and New Mexico. The measles had been declared eliminated in America in 2000.
State officials said that the child who died in Texas was “school-aged” and unvaccinated. The last-known previous death from measles was in 2015, when an immunocompromised adult woman succumbed to the disease. Doctors didn’t realize she had it until after her death. Before that, it had been 12 years since a measles fatality. …”
I have a hunch that we're going to see a great deal of backtracking in this administration, and especially in RFK, Jr's health agencies. And it's very likely that people are literally going to die during his watch for needless reasons.
Millions worldwide will needlessly die as a direct and knock-on effect of this admin. They’ll only backtrack in the high profile cases that impact the people they’ve conned - everyone else is fucked.
That an Andrew Wakefield follower is now promoting the MMR vaccine is only because this outbreak is occurring in a ruby red area, and has reach a level of spread to genuinely threaten a regional epidemic; that this is threatening Lubbock is a big deal. That’s bad optics, in an “oh shit, the proletariat is getting restless” manner. The 700 starving children fed daily by USAID, or the 20 MILLION receiving PEPFAR, or the tens of thousands receiving purified water in war torn regions, are currently in grave danger, and there’s reason to believe this admin views tens of millions of American in similarly, arguably more, disdainful ways.
Oh, no doubt, and people, perhaps a great many, are going to die or suffer permanent harm because of RFK, Jr. and the like. I'm just saying that there is also going to be some backtracking, as in this case. Appointing him to regulate our healthcare system is crazy, plain and simple.
The link between vaccines and autism doesn't even make sense. One reason there's little evidence is that nobody has ever taken the link seriously enough to investigate.
The link between vaccines and autism doesn't even make sense. One reason there's little evidence is that nobody has ever taken the link seriously enough to investigate.
Except they did. Quite a lot of research was done in the Wake of Wakefield’s now discredited publication in The Lancet in the late ‘90s and they could not replicate his findings.
“… In the late 1990s, Andrew Wakefield, a physician at Royal Free Hospital in London, published an article in The Lancet, claiming to have found the explanation for autism in the measles virus.<a href="Vaccination as a cause of autism—myths and controversies - PMC">6</a>
Initially, Wakefield reported that the measles virus was responsible for the colonic lesions seen in Crohn disease. Although this theory was soon disproved and put to rest, Wakefield was impressed by cases brought to his attention in which apparently normally developing children manifested autistic symptoms shortly after administration of the MMR triad vaccine. Despite his previous blunder with Crohn disease, he hypothesized that the measles virus had triggered inflammatory lesions in the colon, disrupting the permeability of the colon through which neurotoxic proteins reach the bloodstream and the brain, thus causing autism. Eight out of eight autistic children on whom he had performed colonoscopies exhibited the hypothesized lesions, leading him to assert that the measles vaccine virus caused autism.
[his theory became a cause celebre for some time and got a lot of media attention, BUT…]
… In 2005, an investigative reporter alerted The Lancet's editors that Wakefield's study had been flawed by severe research misconduct, conflict of interests, and probably falsehood. After investigating the matter, The Lancet retracted the article, and the British Medical Association took disciplinary actions against Wakefield.
Decreases in the rate of exposure to MMR were not shown to correlate with similar decreases in the incidence of autism. On the contrary, although more and more parents were opting out of MMR vaccination, the rates of autism had been rising.
Despite significant progress in the study of the epidemiology and genetics of autism, the etiology and patho-physiology of this condition is far from being elucidated and no curative treatment currently exists. Although solid scientific research ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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“…Vaccines do not cause autism. A small study in 1998 suggested a link between vaccinations and autism spectrum disorder. The study was reviewed further and retracted. In addition, the author's medical license was revoked due to falsified information.
Since then, numerous studies have debunked a connection between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
In April 2015, JAMA published the largest study to date, analyzing the health records of over 95,000 children. About 2,000 of those children were classified at risk for autism because they had a sibling already diagnosed with autism. The study confirmed that the MMR vaccine did not increase the risk for autism spectrum disorder. ..”
Except they did. Quite a lot of research was done in the Wake of Wakefield’s now discredited publication in The Lancet in the late ‘90s and they could not replicate his findings.
Oh. I thought there were a few studies but Wakefield's study was retracted because it was completely fake. Anyway, guess I'm wrong about that. I'm right about the link between vaccines and autism making no sense.
RFK Jr. has claimed that cod liver oil, the steroid budesonide, and the antibiotic clarithromycin have shown "very, very good results" as remedies for measles. Here's what experts and science say about those unconventional treatments.
