RFK Jr. lives up to his anti-vaxxer reputation amid measles outbreak
As a measles case hits the Washington, D.C., area, public health agencies led by anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jr. are ignoring it and instead wasting resources on testing vaccines for a false and long-debunked association with autism.
A measles outbreak in West Texas began in January, but on Sunday, a case was confirmed in Maryland, with the possibility of further exposure to people at Dulles International Airport and the Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center. (The two outbreaks are not believed to be connected.) And officials are still trying to identify who has been exposed, according to The Washington Post.
However, its clear were not in the safest of hands, at least federally. During President Donald Trumps Cabinet meeting on Feb. 26, Kennedy claimed the outbreak in Texas and New Mexico was not unusualdespite that it has led to the first two deaths from the preventable disease in a decade. Additionally, there have been more than 200 reported cases and 23 hospitalizations due to largely unvaccinated populations, as of March 7.
Thereve been four measles outbreaks this year. In this country last year, there were 16, Kennedy said, pushing a false narrative of public health normalcy. So its not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/10/2309191/-RFK-Jr-aims-resources-at-wacky-pet-project-amid-measles-outbreaks

BOSSHOG
(42,108 posts)Relative to the Health of a Nation, that a Democrat is in the White House.
Ol Janx Spirit
(145 posts)of his incompetency and his callous indifference to the lives of ordinary Americans is going to be astounding. We can only hope they are not Hitler or Stalin-territory numbers, but at this point I would not bet against it.
dflprincess
(28,766 posts)they would shut down the vaccines/autism study.