"… A second child has now died of measles in West Texas, and as of this morning, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has a history of opposing vaccines, had continued to call vaccines a personal decision. Although he is not a doctor, he pushed the idea that ingesting Vitamin A helps patients recover from measles. Since his suggestion, a hospital in Texas says it is now treating children whose bodies have toxic levels of Vitamin A.
During the confirmation process for his post, Kennedy seems to have promised Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chair of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and a medical doctor, that he would not alter vaccine systems, but since taking office he has made dramatic cuts. Today, Cassidy posted on X, "Everyone should be vaccinated!" and added: "Top health officials should say so unequivocally b/4 another child dies."
Evidently feeling the pressure as the measles outbreak spreads, Kennedy this afternoon conceded on X that "[t]he most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine."
Today, Dan Diamond and Hannah Natanson of the Washington Post reported that cuts to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have even Republican lawmakers and former Trump officials from his first term worried that the country is at risk of food-related disease outbreaks like the 2022 contamination of infant formula…"
HCR
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-6-2025-sunday?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios
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