Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Instead of vaccines, RFK Jr. focuses on unconventional measles treatments, driving worries about misinformation

 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/05/health/measles-rfk-vitamin-a-misinformation/index.html

As a measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, the response from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has leaned heavily on treatment with vitamin A, as well as “good results” from the use of the steroid budesonide, the antibiotic clarithromycin and cod liver oil.

Doctors say that this messaging might take away from efforts to increase vaccination, and some misinformation about these therapies is already circulating online.

Many US doctors have never seen measles, given that the virus was declared eliminated in the country in 2000. There are no antiviral medications specifically to treat measles infection.

“Vitamin A is not a substitute for vaccination,” said Dr. Megan Ranney, dean of the Yale School of Public Health.

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    1. It takes a special kind of stupid, and a name renowned in American aristocracy to be this successful.

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    2. Like I said yesterday
      לֹא־תַעֲשׂ֥וּ עָ֙וֶל֙ בַּמִּשְׁפָּ֔ט לֹא־תִשָּׂ֣א פְנֵי־דָ֔ל וְלֹ֥א תֶהְדַּ֖ר פְּנֵ֣י גָד֑וֹל בְּצֶ֖דֶק תִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט עֲמִיתֶֽךָ

      Torah does not give Gedolim carte blanche to be foolish

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