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Kennedy sends mixed vaccine messages amid Texas measles outbreak

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with the Texas Department of State Health Services to address a measles outbreak in Texas, reported to have 146 cases and one death so far, as part of an Epi-Aid response.
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Discussed delivering treatments but did not mention vaccines during an interview on Fox News.
Doctors are urging vaccination as the outbreak continues, with pediatricians expressing frustration at vaccine hesitancy, despite most Texas children being vaccinated.
Doctors in Lubbock report significant health challenges, treating young patients struggling with measles, while local vaccine hesitancy grows due to misinformation.

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Make Public-Health Officials Stay in Their Lane Again

Fighting anti-Semitism isn’t RFK Jr.’s job.

1 month ago·Washington, United States

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Amid a growing measles outbreak, doctors worry RFK is sending the wrong message

There are now two confirmed deaths in a measles outbreak that has spread from West Texas across the border into New Mexico. And infectious disease doctors are concerned RFK Jr's response is missing the mark.

1 month ago·Washington, United States

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The New York Times Mocks RFK Jr for Vitamin A Guidance to Combat Texas Measles Outbreak

A great deal of research shows Vitamin A can be of benefit to those infected by measles. The post The New York Times Mocks RFK Jr for Vitamin A Guidance to Combat Texas Measles Outbreak first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

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JFK Grandson Jack Schlossberg Asks RFK Jr's Wife Cheryl Hines to Apologize to Family Of Dead Child - Showbiz411

Irreverent JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg has a favor to ask of his cousin’s wife. Jack wants actress Cheryl Hines, married to Robert Kennedy Jr, to make a phone call to the family of the Texas child that died of measles. RFK, of course, is the conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer who now runs the Department of […] The post JFK Grandson Jack Schlossberg Asks RFK Jr’s Wife Cheryl Hines to Apologize to Family Of Dead Child appeared first on Showbiz4…

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RFK Jr. Was Mountaineering in California as Measles Outbreak Worsened

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who went mountaineering over the weekend, has experts concerned over his handling of the West Texas measles outbreak.

1 month ago·Los Angeles, United States

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Texas measles outbreak fuels debate over Kennedy’s vaccine policies | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

WASHINGTON >> Perhaps no vote was as agonizing for Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., than his vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s health secretary. Cassidy, a medical doctor, wondered aloud for days how Kennedy, the nation’s most vocal and powerful critic of vaccinations, might handle an infectious disease crisis.

1 month ago·Honolulu, United States

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