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166 posts145 participants19 posts today

"During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. But in office, he and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching, sometimes subtle steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety."

What? Who could have seen this coming? 🤔

nytimes.com/2025/04/13/health/

Under the leadership of secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services has cut billions of dollars needed to modernize state programs for childhood immunization.
The New York Times · The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining VaccinesBy Apoorva Mandavilli

#MontyPython “Well, I didn’t #vote for you.” – Peasant Woman to King Arthur. But... Every Day we read this - 'This is the crisis moment': Political scientist says Trump crossed a crucial red line (April 14) - No he crossed it on Jan 20 and every day thereafter #media #journalism #corruption #power #blackmail #access #democracy #government #maga #politics #freedom #censorship #deportation #immigration #education #climate #healthcare #measles #economy #finance #insidertrading #wallstreet #markets

Measles update report, CDC.

"As of April 10, 2025, a total of 712 confirmed* measles cases were reported by 25 jurisdictions: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Washington."

cdc.gov/measles/data-research/

#Measles
#MeaslesOutbreak
#MeaslesEpidemic
#Measles2025

Measles (Rubeola)Measles Cases and OutbreaksBy CDC

Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton

It’s not hard to connect the dots.

Once considered eradicated, measles is now escalating.

Naval Hospital Bremerton public health and preventive medicine providers have been paying close attention to locally confirmed measle cases in the Puget Sound area, as well as outbreaks across the country.

While there isn’t cause for alarm, but there is always a need for awareness.

“Measles is an airborne, extremely infectious, and potentially severe viral illness. It is spread when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes to release virus in the air. Measles can cause a mild febrile illness with a rash or lead to hospitalization (one in five), pneumonia (one in 20), brain infection and possibly death,” said Capt. Jackie McDowell, NHB preventive and occupational medicine physician."

#vaccination #vaccines #measles #measlesoutbreak

dvidshub.net/news/495240/conne

I love Rachel Maddow. RFK Jr. is “not familiar” with HHS cuts???? All while promoting doctors who work while having #measles and treat people based on their dreams! Wondering why I spent 10 years in med school when you can just learn medicine through divine intervention. Oh right, RFK Jr. knows that as he put in charge David Geier, not a doctor and who practiced without a license, to figure out the cause of #autism by Sept. Heck why spending all those years studying!
msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/

MSNBC · 'How is it possible that you have this job?': RFK Jr.'s incompetence becomes too glaring to overlookBy MSNBC

#FYI #USA #MicrobeTV #BeyondTheNoise #RFKjr #measles
#vaccinate #vaccines #VincentRacaniello #PaulOffit

The second child died last week of measles. This makes two children and an adult (all unvaccinated) dying of measles within a few weeks, which equals the total number of measles deaths in the last 25 years.
Absolutely unnecessary and preventable deaths. Vaccinate!

youtube.com/watch?v=Bdz1a__zmVY

DEAR GOD. 🤦‍♂️

#RFKJr IS NOT A DOCTOR. HE HAS NO FORMAL MEDICAL TRAINING.

And he's pushing junk/quack "science", "miracle cures", AND PRAYER as cures for deadly contagions like #Measles... praising a doctor in #Texas who is seeing unvaxinated children WHILE HE HIMSELF HAS THE (incurable) DISEASE.

AND CONSIDER: RFK is running just one dept (#HHS). The guy who appointed him is running THE ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THE SAME WAY (from #NationalSecurity to the #Economy.)
msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/

MSNBC · 'How is it possible that you have this job?': RFK Jr.'s incompetence becomes too glaring to overlookBy MSNBC

Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US

> The #measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance.

> The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say.
apnews.com/article/measles-tex #Texas

Cesar Acevedo, left, holds his infant son, Adriel Acevedo, as as nurse Tracey McElroy, right, prepares to give him a vaccination that included a polio dose at the Dallas County Health and Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
AP News · Measles: How stagnant vaccine funding helped Texas outbreak spreadBy Laura Ungar

US measles cases surpass 700 with outbreaks in six states. Here's what to know - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in a televised Cabinet meeting Thursday that measles cases were plateauing nationally, but the virus continues to spread mostly in people who are unvaccinated… #Measles #vaccines #PublicHealth #RFKjr #RepuublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #virus #ChildhoodDiseases #HHS apnews.com/article/measles-out

Health department staff members enter the Andrews County Health Department measles clinic carrying doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. (AP Photo/Annie Rice)
AP News · Ohio measles cases rise to 20. Here's what to know about outbreaks around the USBy Devi Shastri