Anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr. weaponizes child’s measles death
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And the Children's Health Defense spread false claims about measles and vaccines, stating that recovering from measles can protect against cancer, which is misleading and dangerous according to experts.
- A large measles outbreak in under-vaccinated areas has affected over 300 people in West Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, leading to hospitalizations and deaths.
- Vaccines have significantly saved lives, with an estimated 154 million lives saved in the last 50 years, despite persistent misinformation about their safety and efficacy.
- In Rockland County, only 62% of children received measles shots by age two, raising concerns about new outbreaks as vaccine skepticism spreads, especially among some ultra-Orthodox communities.
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Kennedy Instructs Anti-Vaccine Group to Remove Fake C.D.C. Page
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, on Saturday instructed leaders of the nonprofit he founded to take down a web page that mimicked the design of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s site but laid out a case that vaccines cause autism. The page had been published on a site apparently registered to the nonprofit, the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense. Mr. Kennedy’s action came after The New York Times inq…
‘Everybody has to die’: Anti-vax parents unmoved by kid’s measles death
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dangerous anti-vaxx nonprofit, Children Health Defense, has two new star spokespeople: the parents of the 6-year-old Texas girl who died ...
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