A sad breakthrough ... RFK Jr finally admitted ... the vaccines are the best way to prevent measles. After two children have died from measles and countless others have permanent liver damage and more from his quack cures like overdosing on cod liver oil and have too much vitamin A causing severe liver damage and other organ failure.
He is a special kind of evil https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/rfk-jr-measles-statement-west-texas-outbreak/?utm_campaign=rss&utm_source=flatplan
In case anyone has unvaccinated kids, consider:
The CDC says measles droplets can linger in the air for 2 hours, with a 95% infection rate. Although they've only seen 81 cases so far, those cases occurred in just one week, which was last week. And that was more than all the cases seen in all of last year. Two otherwise health kids died.
The MMR vaccine is 97% effective after two doses and has a 60+ year safety record. Meanwhile, misinformation like using vitamin A as a treatment is putting kids at further risk. Doctors in Texas are seeing liver issues in unvaccinated kids due to vitamin A overuse. While there have been unfounded rumors for years that the MMR vaccine is unsafe, people have gotten a pass because so much of the population has been vaccinated. But in certain, anti-vaccine communities, the disease can spread.
Keep in mind that there is no cure for measles, if you or your child gets it.
Did you get measles in the 1950's when 95 percent of the US population got it? If so, you might have lifetime immunity, but there are exceptions, so if you live where that outbreak is, or are planning to travel internationally, you can get an antibody test. Here's a good article on what we know about measles:
@journeywithme2 Well, he gets one tiny brownie point from me for finally admitting he was wrong. None of the other t acolyte appointees ever seem to do so. (Not that it makes up for the damage done.)
Perhaps he is not throughly evil, just stupid from all the drug use and the brain worm.
@journeywithme2 A membership to statnews was required to read the whole thing. I was only able to read first bit before I posted. Do you have a more accessible link?
@ana You can sign up for a free limited access article that will allow you to read the entire article. It only take a minute ..that is what I did.
But here is the gist of it : "Kennedy, who has long described the vaccine as dangerous, has largely avoided endorsing its use since the start of the outbreak, and he stopped short of explicitly saying he “recommended” it in his latest remarks, as public health officials have called on him to do
Hours later, Kennedy promoted unorthodox, unproven treatments for the disease in another post. He spent time with “extraordinary healers,” he said — doctors Richard Bartlett and Ben Edwards — who had treated children with measles with aerosolized budesonide and clarithromycin.
Those drugs, a steroid and antibiotic, respectively, are not proven measles treatments, physicians and health experts have said after Kennedy previously promoted them. Budesonide may even weaken the immune system, according to the Mayo Clinic."
@journeywithme2 Thanks for the summary.
I try not to sign up for such memberships unless I know I will actually use them on a regular basis. It helps me avoid new spam tsunamis.