RFK Jr.'s measles strategy leading U.S. down dark path
By Lisa Jarvis / Bloomberg Opinion
Amid one of the most significant measles outbreaks in more than 30 years, America’s top public health official is using his platform to peddle misinformation and fake cures and push an agenda that is opposed to evidence-based medicine and science.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is steering public health far off course. This diversion becomes more dangerous and difficult to correct each passing week.
Kennedy has refused to state unequivocally that vaccination is the only way to prevent measles. Our vaccine works so well — two doses are 97 percent effective against the virus — that until the three tragic deaths this year, no one in the U.S. had died from the disease in a decade. In fact, measles was declared eliminated from the country in 2000.
And yet, as cases rose to 935 across 30 states last week — a number that public health experts believe is likely a gross underestimation — Kennedy refused to acknowledge the gravity of the situation. In a NewsNation interview last week, he downplayed the outbreak here by pointing out it wasn’t as bad as what other countries, such as Canada, are experiencing. To be clear, outbreaks in other countries, primarily occurring in our neighbors, provide all the more reason to encourage vaccination at home. Pathogens know no borders. He then went on to falsely claim the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine contains “a lot of aborted fetus debris and DNA particles.”
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He developed a brain infection from the measles in 1962. It left him developmentally disabled for life. He never recovered and my family spent a fortune on trying to help him.
There was no MMR vaccination available when he was born in 1960.
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