General Discussion

Last week, an 8-year-old girl became the second child and the third person to die of measles in the current outbreak. But it was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, who dominated the news cycle ...

Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told me. Instead, “his rhetoric should be on one thing and one thing only; it should be all hands on deck, in terms of launching a catch-up vaccination campaign and explaining to parents the vital importance of getting vaccinated,” Hotez said. “That’s the only way you can prevent this epidemic from accelerating, and it’s the only way you can hope to contain it. And there’s no other intervention” ...

... Health workers in Texas told me that parents are waiting until children are severely ill before they bring them to the hospital. Meanwhile, they’re trying unproven remedies, including toxic doses of vitamin A—which puts sick children at grave risk and does nothing to halt the virus as it tears through communities ...

While Kennedy wrote, in his Sunday afternoon post encouraging vaccines, that “the growth rates for new cases and hospitalizations have flattened,” after federal resources were sent to Texas in early March, cases are in fact rising quickly—and more are likely going undetected ...

https://newrepublic.com/article/193935/measles-cases-spreading-rfk-jr-vaccines