Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department
Two days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday said he recognizes the serious impact of the ongoing measles epidemic in Texas – in which a child died recently – and said the government is providing resources, including protective vaccines.
“Ending the measles outbreak is a top priority for me and my extraordinary team,” Kennedy – an avowed anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who for years has sown doubts about the safety and efficacy of vaccines – said in a post on X. […]
A total of 164 measles cases were reported as of 27 February across Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Rhode Island and Texas, information from the CDC showed. About 95% of those infected were unvaccinated people, including children whose parents did not follow CDC recommendations to get them immunized with safe, effective vaccines providing protection against measles as well as other easily preventable diseases. Another 3% were from people who received only one of the two required shots for immunity, CDC data showed on Friday.
Dangerous fucking idiots, both Bobby Brainworm and all these stupid cunts that wouldn’t vaccinate their kids. And the ones that still won’t, even now. The child who died in the Texas epidemic was the first US death from measles since 2015, and that person had been the first since 2003. It wasn’t completely wiped out there, but it was massively reduced; Wiki tells that in the 1960s, pre-vaccine, it affected about 3000 out of every million people, but by about 2000 there was literally a one in a million chance of getting it. The vaccine fucking worked and people stopped dying. I’m glad that for once Kennedy’s overcome his usual antipathy to vaccines somehow, but it’s a bit late… especially when HE’s been one of the key figures for years in convincing people that vaccines are the work of Satan. Cunt.
