Here is a new definition of Chutzpah: attend the funeral of a non -vaccinated child who died of measles after having spent years undermining the confidence in the vaccine that could have saved his life.
But there was on Sunday Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., presenting his respects to the Texas Family of Daisy Hildebrand, 8, the second American child to die of measles, a disease that was declared eliminated 25 years ago.
I know that the pain can confuse someone's thinking, but I really gasped when I read what Daisy's father, Pete Hildebrand, told journalists about the measles vaccine a day after his son buried his son.
“I know it is not effective because some family members ended up obtaining the vaccine, and obtained measles much worse than some of my children,” said Hildebrand, who has two other young children. “The vaccine was not effective.”
Thanks to years of skepticism of vaccines and hostility planted by “welfare gurus” such as Kennedy, the country is experiencing a significant increase, completely unnecessary, in cases of measles. According to the centers for disease control and prevention, 25 states have reported a total of 712 confirmed measles cases, including California and Texas, where Daisy Hildebrand lived. That is almost three times more than last year, and we only have 3 and a half months in 2025.
Who knows what led Kennedy to finally admit in a warm publication of social networks that the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, papers and rubella, is “the most effective way to avoid the spread of measles.”
Did you regret that your years of information and antivacamic lies have contributed to the resurgence of the disease, which has now claimed the lives of two children and is also associated with the death of an adult? Doubtful.
Are you finally giving up the reduction of faith in vaccines? Not really: public health experts regret continuously arguing that the government should not demand vaccination, that the decision should simply be personal. This despite the crucial fact that vaccination transmits the immunity of the flock without requiring anyone in the flock.
According to the Atlantic, Kennedy again generated doubts about the MMR vaccine with Daisy Hildebrand's father. “I really asked about it,” Hildebrand told the magazine. “He said: 'You don't know what is in the vaccine.'”
And Kennedy continues to sell the possibility that vaccination is a causal link with autism, despite scientific research resams that demonstrates otherwise.
“Slender confidence in well -established vaccines that have fulfilled the high standards of quality, safety and effectiveness that they have been in force for decades … It is harmful to public health and a clear danger to the health, safety and safety of our nation,” wrote Peter Marks, head of the Biological Evaluation and Research Center of the Food and Medication Administration, in its letter of resignation last month. Marks, who played a fundamental role in the Warp Speed operation of the first Trump administration, which produced a COVID-19 vaccine in record time, said he could no longer tolerate the “unprecedented assault of Kennedy to the scientific truth that has negatively affected public health.”
In his new book, “Crisis avoided”, the epidemiologist of infectious diseases, Caitlin Rivers, calls public health as the quieter cousin of medicine. “
The book is a fascinating story of vaccines and public health cycles that describes as “panic and negligence” where disease outbreaks, such as the devastating adenovirus that affected military training fields until a vaccine developed in 1971, led to effective responses that were too abandoned once the crisis had passed. (After the Government refused to pay $ 5 million to improve the Wyoth Pharmaceuticals plant of Wyoth that made the vaccine, the supplies were given and the adenovirus returned to the training camps, killing eight soldiers before the vaccine can be reintroduced in 2011 at a cost of $ 100 million. “Infectious diseases do not share the propensity of humanity for humanity wear. “
In positive scenarios, disease outbreaks are quickly noted by epidemiologists who work on borders and time areas, identified and mitigated. In the best case, the disease never puts a point of support in the population. “If we do our work well,” Rivers writes, “nothing happens.”
Meanwhile, Kennedy passes through a good health avat while taking testosterone supplements and seems to surreptitiously slide a nicotine bag in his mouth while testifying in one of his confirmation audiences. And is fixed in the use of artificial dyes by the food industry?
The agency that supervises is now working actively against public health interests. In fact, there is a literally disgusting disconnection between what it says about improving the health of Americans and what is really doing their version of health and human services.
The science journalist, Deborah Blum, wrote last week in the New York Times that, although Kennedy has promoted a better regulation of food additives, “is silently undermining the ability to do that job.” The cuts of the workforce that she has supervised, she wrote, “decimated the personnel of a laboratory dedicated to the tests of bacteria and toxic substances in food, such as heavy metal contamination.”
A less regulated food system could lead to a disaster: Listeria, Salmonella and other forms of food pollution that will not be detected in time to save lives because there is no one to detect. “Many experts,” writes Blum, “now believes that food poisoning outbreaks will extend more and last longer.”
The centers for disease control and prevention, which are under the control of Kennedy, have lost at least 20% of their workforce through the current round of layoffs and purchases, says Associated Press. Complete divisions have been eliminated, including dental health, occupational safety and environmental health. The workers responsible for tracking the outbreaks of cruise ships have also been fired.
Also deleted, by the Efficiency Department of the Government of Elon Musk: the team of the Freedom of Information Law of the CDCs, employees who observe dangerous products for babies, their division of violence prevention and laboratories that monitor the resistance to antibiotics. Kennedy has said that some CDC workers were mistakenly fired by the cuts of Dugo and will be reinstated. “And that was always the plan,” he added. How efficient.
Listening, Kennedy is a hypocrite of the highest order, demands data and denies it at the same time. And its motto, making America healthy again, is nothing more than a sick joke that is played by the American people.
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