Summary
Texas hospitals are treating children with vitamin A poisoning linked to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promotion of the supplement as a measles treatment.
At Covenant Children’s hospital in Lubbock, patients with measles showed abnormal liver function due to excessive vitamin A intake.
Kennedy, the U.S. health secretary, claimed vitamin A dramatically reduces measles mortality. Experts warn his messaging confuses parents and downplays the proven protection of the MMR vaccine.
The U.S. faces its worst measles outbreak in decades, with nearly 500 cases across 21 states and two confirmed deaths.
Experts warn his messaging confuses parents and downplays the proven protection of the MMR vaccine
Oh look RFK is getting people nearly killed. Who could have seen this coming?
More importantly, look how no one is getting into trouble for endangering children.
Who so you think they were referring to? What’s with peoples’ inability to read subtlety or infer meaning these days?
Republicans only care about children that aren’t born (i.e. aren’t children) yet.
Don’t be fooled. Caring about fetuses has never been about the fetus, but about controlling women.
When the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says to do a thing for your child’s health, how would you go about proving abuse? They’re literally following government “guidelines”.
If these idiots kill their children out of ignorance and stupidity, power to 'em. I lost all empathy for idiots during COVID. No one can ask me to give a shit any longer. And yes, fuck their kids too. This is Darwinism in action. Let it ride.
Definitely not the people of American Samoa.
Edit: It’s interesting that RFK Jr is now only briefly mentioned in the body of that article, but several of the source links at the bottom explicitly reference him in their titles.
Health insurance companies shouldn’t cover these people who refuse to vaccinate.
People don’t get the right to endanger our most vulnerable because they are stupid and religious.
I guess I should say stupid or religious but I have a feeling the initial statement is correct.
I agree with your other comment on not trusting insurance agencies though.
This would still respect choice while cutting back on the utilization of emergency services covered by insurance companies. It could lead to reduced costs and people who pay into insurance shouldn’t be forced to pay for the negative health outcomes of people who willingly flout preventative health measures. It drives up costs for everyone.
Sure sure, but should parent be allowed to forego low-risk, high-efficacy medical advice to the long term detriment of their child’s and other children’s health? Children, who are unable to legally advocate for themselves…
Yes. I would 100% enjoy mandatory vaccinations when those vaccines are standardized, well regulated, and proven to save countless lives. I want to be forced to take the shot, I want the person to my right to be forced, I want the person to my left to be forced.
I want to save people from horrible death and lifelong disability. I want to eradicate diseases.
We need to make suing government employees that make decisions easier. Things like discrimination for anyone that makes determinations for program eligibility, etc.
And definitely cabinet positions when decisions clearly are in opposition to available research and lead directly to outcomes like this, where a direct correlation is not only obvious but even easily provable in court.
Blanket Immunity to cover for incompetent government employees is complete bullshit and doesn’t serve the interests of the nation or it’s citizens at all.
Yeah this is one of those suggestions that sounds great on the surface but will just completely break government. Every single decision will result in a lawsuit, and the only beneficiaries will be lawyers. The inability to sue the cabinet isnt the problem, it’s the degenerates the American people vote in there.
There’s is no electoral system system and no regulation that can save voters from themselves.
Why are these people ok with isolated vitamin supplements (which are not natural), but not ok with a vaccine? I don’t understand the line they draw.
They’re contrarians and conspiracists. They will go with whatever the established authorities recommend against.
Add in just a pinch of traditionalists who think herbal supplements are better than modern medicine and that the human body is composed of 7 ancient energies capable of healing all wounds if you eat right, or some bullshit.
RFK is so ridiculously stupid.
It’s time to bring RFK to schools with measles outbreaks. Let him personally reassure people that the vaccine is a choice.
What, you’re worried about catching measles? Why the fuck would you?
