'This is all wholly preventable,' former Covid chief says of measles outbreak
Source: msn/Politico
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Former White House Covid-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha on Sunday laid the blame for an ongoing measles outbreak currently centered on West Texas squarely at the feet of new HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“This is all wholly preventable,” Jha told Martha Raddatz on ABC's “This Week.” “We've already had two people die. I'm worried we're going to see more children get very, very sick and die. We should not be at this point in our country, and yet here we are because of bad information being spread by Secretary Kennedy and others."
Kennedy has signaled an intention to reorient the mission of the country's top health agencies toward fighting chronic disease, a seismic shift from past policy. But the secretary has been criticized for his approach to the measles outbreak. Beyond that, last Thursday, HHS announced it was terminating 10,000 employees, roiling the health sector and blindsiding agency staffers. Then on Friday, key FDA vaccine official Dr. Peter Marks resigned — at odds with Kennedy over the benefits of vaccination.
“More and more recently he has been pushed to advocate for quack vitamins and cod liver oil and not the thing that we know works for measles, which is vaccines,” Jha told Raddatz on Marks’ departure. “And for someone with his scientific integrity, it just got to be too much." Marks put his disagreements with Kennedy even more bluntly in a resignation letter published Friday.
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