Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Desitants Outseaks Outbreak – The revelation is important, but no health experts
Kennedy, the secretary of Health and Man Services, wrote a Editorial published by Fox News on Sundaythat the belt-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR) is important to prevent fatal disease. ”
Behind the scenes, however, Kennedy, a voice, long vaccine skepticalIt seems that the steps to shorten the importance of vaccination. Under his leadership, two meetings to discuss the next steps for vaccines canceled. And he “collect the names of potential new members to wear a committee that recommends what vaccines should be obtained and when, according to people who are familiar with this matter,” The Wall Street Journal Tuesday is reported.
As Tuesday, 159 measles cases confirmed in Texas. Most of the sick, including a Young child who diedwere not vaccinated against the virus.
Kennedy acknowledges the editorial measles – one of the most contagious viruses in the world – more dangerous to people who are unvacuinated. He stopped encouraging public to get MMR vaccine.
“The decision to vaccinate is a personal,” Kennedy’s letter.
Some Pediatricians and public public health experts have returned to the editorial, saying it is nothing more than a thinly studied test to relieve his anti-belt supporters in the middle of the back He appeared to have lowered the blast During a Cabinet meeting at the White House last week.
“While he claimed some lips on the lip of the vaccines,” as Dr. Amesh Adalja, a health school scholar is like ‘Personal’ to choose an anti-vaccine activity. They know that he is their person. “
Molly O’Shea, a Michigan and Spokesman of the American Academy of Pediatrics, telling the fact that Kennedy has no perfect back vaccines “.”
“It certainly did not impose vaccination in the way he said it, but he did not come out with a strong statement of vaccination support,” says O’Shea. “Vaccination is the most effective strategy of reducing morbidity and mortality from measles. That’s not his way to the message.”
This messaging difference is unique from the previous Trump administration.
In 2019, when Two Type of New York Threat to reverse the state of the United States to eliminate measles, then-hhs secretary Alex Azar does not mince with words.
“Sculpture Vaccines are one of the largest studied medical products we have, their safety is strengthened for years,” says Azar in April 2019 The HHS statement.
He continued to say that “measles were not an harmless childhood disease, but a contagious disease, could be a threatening disease of life.”
At the time, Kennedy told members of the children’s health defensean anti-belt-shaped form he built, that the MMR vaccine is severe “than pain pretending to be prevented.” He did not give science evidence that the statement was repeated, vaccine experts.
“Vaccination is far from the most effective way to protect individuals and their communities against measles,” as Dr. Ofer Leves in Boston Boste’s Boste. “If you want to get the top of this matter, that’s the answer.”
A HHS spokesman does not answer questions about Kennedy’s editorial.
Vitamin’s theory is a theory
No antiviral or specific treatment used for US measles
To the editorial and a Talk to Fox News Tuesday, Kennedy doubled a The treatment is always reserved for other countries: vitamin A.
“We took vitamin A,” Kennedy said to talk about how the federal government helped outbreak. “Also the liver oil, with high, high concentration of vitamin A.”
It is true that Vitamin A is sometimes given to help the measles of non-profit countries where malnutrition is a factor, according to the World Health Organization. Most people in the US, however, have normal vitamin levels and does not require any kind of vitamin supplement. So much, experts say, toxic.
Vitamin A is the melting fat, which means it is accumulated in the body instead of exiting by urination. That is, more vitamin A you took, the more you accumulated organs like the liver.
“You are an overdose of vitamin A,” Chief Health Officer at Texas Tech University Science Center in Lubbock and Authority in the city, said in an interview Friday. “It’s not used over the counter for anyone who says, ‘my son has sniffles. It may be measles.’ Don’t do that.”
Anti-batheming influences and organizations rallied vitamin A as protection against and treatment for measles for many years. Time in outbreaksCounter-Batized groups organize drives to collect and send vitamin A to affect communities.
Adalja at Johns Hopkins said that Kennedy references to vitamins were only a series of debilitating MMR vaccine among his followers.
“In discussing RFK Jr. about vitamin A, people say, Oh, that’s his word code we need to do that, not the MMR vaccine,” says Adalja.
