Texas children poisoned after RFK Jr touts vitamin A as measles treatment

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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.

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Texas children poisoned after RFK Jr touts vitamin A as measles treatment

www.telegraph.co.uk /global-health/science-and-disease/texas-children-poisoned-rfk-jr-vitamin-a-measles-treatment/

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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.
  
  Especially the guy who is actively harming children.
  
  Republicans only care about children that aren't born (i.e. aren't children) yet.
  
  Well, they're not fetuses so conservatives don't care.
  
  Who would give him trouble? His boss rutinely hangs out with child abusers and could very well be one himself.
- theres no confusion, his worms know what they are doing.
- Oh, he's getting people killed. Again.
- Maybe Sirhan Sirhan should've hit the kid rather than the father.
Health insurance companies shouldn't cover these people who refuse to vaccinate.
- Health insurance companies shouldn't exist
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.
- Because opinion is more important than fact, and choice is more important than logic.
- They're contrarians and conspiracists. They will go with whatever the established authorities recommend against.
- Because they are operating on propaganda, not logic.
- "I don't know what's in the vaccine" is the dumbest excuse too. The information is available, and if you don't trust the information, why would trust the label that tells you those pills are vitamin A. They could put anything in that pill with Vitamin A.
- Um. Think for a moment, who'd be granting these licenses?
  
  I can! Am I qualified? Doubt it. That makes me the perfect candidate it seems.
  
  your local christian priest of course.
- licensing for parenting
  "I'm sorry, you're not white so you can't be a parent" is, historically, how that'd go.
  
  There's still tens of thousands of people alive right now that were forcefully sterilized up until the late 70s. 10 years ago we passed laws to help the victims. We can find and talk to people who have had their "parenting license" taken away by the state.
  
  I hate that you are right.
- While you're at it, also licenses for government officials please! The man is minister of health damn.
- At least some mandatory education would be a good idea.
- Who is granting these licenses and what are the criteria?
  In the US right now, it seems that you may be required to reject vaccinations and to poison your children. The guy in charge of the agency eats roadkill and had a worm eating his brain (not attacks—facts out of his own mouth).
  Be careful what you wish for.
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?
  
  I guarantee that RFK has had the MMR vaccine.
If parents and doctors aren't getting in trouble for killing their kids with quack drugs, why are they getting in trouble for giving real medication when their "child" is still in the womb?
Any parent taking what RFK Jr says as fact is neglecting their child.
- There's a lot of landmass between Texas and the ocean but you know what, I'm on board.
Parents overdose their kids on vitamin A, you can't really blame RFK for them being stupid enough to give doses several orders of magnitude higher than the RDA.
But then if they're stupid enough to take health advice from RFK (or any politician, really), it's a good example of correlation != Causation.
- can't really blame RFK for them being stupid enough to give doses several orders of magnitude higher than the RDA.
  Yes you can. If an idiot in power uses their power to convince stupid people to hurt their children, the person in power is still responsible.
  But then if they're stupid enough to take health advice from RFK (or any politician, really),
  Yeah, what kind of fucking moron takes health advice from checks notes the secretary of health and human services?
  Granted, you're right in that people shouldn't be listening to this specific director because he's dumber than a bag of hammers, but saying people shouldn't be listening to people in HHS (in general circumstances, not in this age of crazy pills) is as dumb as them listening to rfk.
- Only stupid people take health advice from the secretary of health.
  
  Especially from worms
  
  and people with no MD/PHD in health or diseases. its almost alway quacks.
  
  Only stupid people take health advice from Trump's secretary of health, yes
Wonder if he could be sued for practicing medicine without a license ?

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