It is pretty clear that the HHS under Kennedy will stop supporting vaccination and vaccine research. The measles outbreak is just the start of diseases overwhelming the U.S. under the Trump regime. The 'war on vaccines has started': Scientists blast 'ridiculous' Trump admin request https://www.alternet.org/mrna-vaccine/
How dare Sec Kennedy prioritize safe baby formula? I demand my infant’s food be laced with mystery chemicals, questionable and additives! Who does he think he is, ensuring infants don’t consume hazardous sludge? Unbelievable.
I'm shocked, had nobody ever even tried to make safe baby food before? Wow, that's a surprise. What were they doing before Kennedy!?? And what about arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury in the breasts of mothers!? I guess Kennedy is going to have to get every breast a test. Operation Suck Speed. Homemade baby food contains as many toxic metals as store-bought options, report says https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/new...c-metals-report-lead-arsenic-mercury-cadmium/ Mothers eat contaminated food when baby in their tummy!
Time to cut money to the leading recipient of pediatric research funds from the National Institutes of Health, with more awards than any other children's hospital - but some of the patients aren't white and the treatment may include (gasp) vaccines. Yep, time to start killing the children. Especially the poor ones. Welcome to RFK Jr.'s new medical world. Healey says cuts to Children’s Hospital funding could be devastating “Everyone needs to understand how very serious this threat is.” https://www.boston.com/news/health/...ldrens-hospital-funding-could-be-devastating/ Gov. Maura Healey warned of the potential impacts of the proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and Medicaid during a press conference at Boston Children’s Hospital. “We want to make absolutely clear what is at stake and who is being harmed,” Healey said Monday. Boston Children’s is the leading recipient of pediatric research funding from the National Institutes of Health, receiving more awards than any other children’s hospital. According to Healey’s administration, the hospital receives over $200 million in NIH funding annually, including $230 million last year. The proposed cuts by the Trump administration would cut that funding in half. “That means halting research into the diseases that harm children,” Healey said. “Ripping away hope from families … who are facing a devastating diagnosis. These cuts are going to cost jobs. They’re going to cost lives, young, vulnerable lives.” “It’s not rhetoric,” she continued. “It’s not hyperbole. It’s a fact.” Congress also recently passed a budget resolution that could potentially impact Medicaid, which about 2 million Massachusetts residents and nearly half of the state’s children rely on for health care. About 46% of Boston Children’s patients have coverage through MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program, including 60% of those with the most complex medical needs. “Everyone needs to understand how very serious this threat is,” said Healey. “And everyone needs to understand the cuts that are being proposed in order to fund huge tax breaks for some of the richest people in the world are going to come on the backs of these patients and their families.” Healey said the cuts have already had an effect in Massachusetts. Despite a federal judge’s temporary restraining order against the NIH for barring funding for medical research, Healey said the funding is still not coming through. Healey said that colleges and universities in the state are already reducing their budgets because of these cuts, which are stopping research and clinical trials in their tracks. Now, Healey said that a presence from China, Europe, and the Middle East is looking to poach these researchers to move overseas. “That is against America First,” she said. “We are giving away assets to other countries instead of retaining them and supporting them here.” Dr. Kevin Churchwell, the executive officer of Boston Children’s Hospital, stated that vaccine development and efforts to monitor diseases like the flu are facing the most significant impacts. “At Boston Children’s, our mission is clear – to improve and transform the lives of children through compassionate care, groundbreaking research, and unwavering commitment to every child, no matter their circumstance, because we believe that care is a right, not a privilege,” Churchwell said in a statement. “That conviction drives our work every day.” During the visit, Healey and first lady Joanna Lydgate toured the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, where they met with clinicians, patients, and families. Healey said it is unclear what the Trump administration will cut next, but “this is an important one.” Choking up, she said after seeing the children fighting, she questioned who would “want to take that hope away from any family.”
Mercury poisoning symptoms may be keeping RFK Jr. from saying anything about his boss's pro-mercury deregulation ideas. RFK Jr.'s mercury stance in retrograde https://www.politico.com/newsletter...fk-jr-s-mercury-stance-in-retrograde-00236362
Let's see what Kennedy's Children’s Health Defense is shoveling. Oh, letting kids die of measles is good. Let's infect and kill a whole lot more of them. How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old's measles death Anti-vaccine influencers see the child’s death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...ers-weaponized-measles-death-texas-rcna196900 In February, a 6-year-old Texan was the first child in the United States to die of measles in two decades. Her death might have been a warning to an increasingly vaccine-hesitant country about the consequences of shunning the only guaranteed way to fight the preventable disease. Instead, the anti-vaccine movement is broadcasting a different lesson, turning the girl and her family into propaganda, an emotional plank in the misguided argument that vaccines are more dangerous than the illnesses they prevent. The child’s grieving parents have given just one on-camera interview, to Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit group founded and led until recently by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the health and human services secretary. In a video that aired online Monday, the young parents stifled sobs, recalling how their unvaccinated daughter got sick from measles, then pneumonia, how she was hospitalized and put on a ventilator, and how she died. In February, a 6-year-old Texan was the first child in the United States to die of measles in two decades. Her death might have been a warning to an increasingly vaccine-hesitant country about the consequences of shunning the only guaranteed way to fight the preventable disease. Instead, the anti-vaccine movement is broadcasting a different lesson, turning the girl and her family into propaganda, an emotional plank in the misguided argument that vaccines are more dangerous than the illnesses they prevent. The child’s grieving parents have given just one on-camera interview, to Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit group founded and led until recently by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the health and human services secretary. In a video that aired online Monday, the young parents stifled sobs, recalling how their unvaccinated daughter got sick from measles, then pneumonia, how she was hospitalized and put on a ventilator, and how she died. “Also, the measles are good for the body,” the girl’s father said, adding through an interpreter of Low German that measles boosts the immune system and wards against cancer — an untrue supposition often offered by anti-vaccine groups and repeated recently by Kennedy. Without evidence, influencers at Children’s Health Defense and beyond have reframed the tragedy of the girl’s death as proof — of the efficacy of unproven cures like vitamin A, of maltreatment by a hospital and even of a plot to undermine Kennedy at the Department of Health and Human Services. It’s a familiar playbook, following countless videos Children’s Health Defense has produced before this one. Along with since-discredited science, the modern anti-vaccine movement was built on the personal accounts of parents — collected through websites, bus tours and anti-vaccine documentaries — who claimed vaccines harmed their children. And even as experts point to overwhelming data on vaccine safety, the raw and immediate accounts — delivered straight to the movement’s followers — provide a narrative that public health officials, bound by evidence and constrained by institutional caution, struggle to counter. “It was a savvy way of centering a mother’s intuition, a mother’s insight, which is very sacred in our culture,” said Karen Ernst, director of the nonprofit group Voices for Vaccines. “That was paramount to how they built the movement.” “The problem is, a simple story told quickly is so much easier to believe than a nuanced, well-sourced truth told later,” Ernst added. “In that way, public health is always chasing the anti-vaccine movement around. They’re never getting ahead of it.” A representative for the family did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Children’s Health Defense and Covenant Children’s Hospital also did not respond. HHS deputy press secretary Emily Hilliard responded with a link to a recent op-ed on the Fox News website, in which Kennedy wrote, “Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.” Measles has spread largely unchecked through the Mennonite community in Gaines County, Texas, sickening more than 190 people, most of them small children, and reaching into neighboring areas. The actual number of people who have fallen ill has been underreported, officials say, because of inadequate testing. For most children, measles brings a fever and an itchy rash, but it can lead to serious complications, including pneumonia, seizures and brain damage. Out of every 1,000 cases, about 200 children require hospitalization, 50 develop pneumonia, one experiences brain swelling that can result in disability, and one to three will die. In Gaines County, hundreds of parents have lined up for a makeshift warehouse clinic run by Dr. Ben Edwards, an alternative practitioner from Lubbock who treats children with an unproven protocol of cod liver oil and budesonide. Edwards had not treated the 6-year-old who died, but afterward, he treated the couple’s remaining children at their sibling’s wake. “Dr. Edwards was there for us,” the mother said. Edwards did not respond to a request for comment. Despite the urgency of the measles crisis, the official response from medical groups has been typically restrained. In a statement Tuesday, a coalition of 34 scientific and medical organizations, including the American Association of Immunologists, the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics, reiterated their support for vaccines as “a cornerstone of public health, a shining example of the power of scientific research, and a vital tool in the fight against preventable diseases.” In a media landscape in which misinformation spreads faster than institutional statements, it’s unlikely to be enough. “We can provide information to other people and just say this is what the data show, but it might take some people with high charisma to help deliver those messages,” said Stephen Jameson, president of the American Association of Immunologists. “But it is hard, because if a vaccine is preventative, where is the rescue of somebody? How do you tell the story ‘Child does not get disease’?” In this environment, Kennedy plays a key public role at the helm of HHS, a platform he has already used to spread falsehoods about measles, the MMR vaccine and the outbreak in Texas. In an interview with Fox Nation, Kennedy claimed falsely that measles immunity came with protections against cancer and heart disease, that cod liver oil and steroids had provided “miraculous” treatment for measles cases in Texas and that measles was a threat only to unhealthy children, suggesting that malnutrition “may have been an issue" with the girl who died. In another Fox News interview, Kennedy said without evidence that the MMR vaccine causes deaths every year. “Misinformation is really leading the day,” said Kris Ehresmann, the recently retired director of the Minnesota Health Department’s infectious disease division. “It’s gone from a parent trying to assess the best decision for their child to a hostile movement that I didn’t see in the early days of my career.” “Covid politicized vaccines and science, really,” Ehresmann added. “And that gave the anti-vaxxer folks a huge foothold.” Patsy Stinchfield, a pediatric nurse practitioner, has seen how the uncontrolled spread of an illness can change parents’ minds — with the right messaging. She recalls going “mosque to mosque to mosque” during a 2017 measles outbreak in Minnesota to listen to the Somali community’s concerns and educate local religious leaders about the danger of measles and the safety of the MMR vaccine. She spoke to nearly every parent of the children hospitalized in the outbreak. “Many of them, the parents, were like, ‘Oh, my God, I never knew it would be this bad. Why didn’t I know this?’” said Stinchfield, who later served as president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. “The No. 1 thing I heard was regret — like, ‘Why didn’t I vaccinate?’” Those stories have yet to be publicly shared by parents of children sickened in the West Texas outbreak. Last week, anti-vaccine activist Del Bigtree dedicated a segment of his internet show, “The HighWire,” to interviewing Texas mothers whose unvaccinated children contracted and survived measles. As the parents described standing by their choice not to vaccinate, photos of one child, who had to be medevaced to a Lubbock hospital, filled the screen. The girl was lying in a hospital bed, her eyes glazed, connected to lines and tubes. After years of arguing measles was no threat to healthy U.S. children, Bigtree was visibly taken aback and searched for an explanation — perhaps measles had mutated to become more serious, he suggested. “That little girl is very sick,” he said.
Well, maybe when the Democrats get back in power they can change some of these policies to help other six year olds. Oh wait. They will be 44 when the Dems get back in power. My bad.
So how did measles and bird flu do in the U.S. when the Trump administration did not allow the CDC to communicate with the public? Surely ordering the stop of information about the diseases stopped the spread of the diseases? They magically disappeared. Right? What Happened When the Trump Administration Ordered a CDC Blackout Documents obtained by FOIA Files reveal the chaotic turn of events at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the Trump administration ordered the agency to stop communicating with the public. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/news...ion-ordered-a-cdc-blackout-what-happened-next
In the meantime Kennedy is spouting nonsense about curing measles with Vitamin A. U.S. measles outbreak spreading ‘like a forest fire’ https://ktla.com/news/u-s-measles-outbreak-spreading-like-a-wildfire/amp/