RFJ jr to lead Department of Health and Human Services

Schlossberg added “RFKJ has been trading in on Camelot, celebrity, conspiracy theories and conflict
for personal gain and fame.”

 

what did the ex-heroin addict say about the work of Dr. Louis Pasteur, the father of immunization and vacination?

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This impacts my children’s future and the U.S. population as a whole.

The impact of policy decisions made under RFK Jr. would be felt well after his term. Vaccination policy affects population immunity slowly, not immediately. Children and the broader U.S. population would not see the full consequences of weakening vaccine recommendations for years, as overall vaccination rates gradually decline.

History and public health data show that even modest declines in vaccination rates lead to outbreaks of preventable diseases over time. What we are seeing today with measles and whooping cough outbreaks reflects vaccine hesitancy and coverage gaps that developed one or two decades ago. Public health models similarly indicate that further reductions in vaccination uptake are likely to result in disproportionate increases in preventable disease, affecting not only the unvaccinated, but also people with compromised immunity and even vaccinated individuals, since no vaccine is 100 percent effective.

If current policies reduce vaccination uptake, these more serious effects are very likely to emerge a decade or more from now, long after the officials responsible have left office.


https://www.scientificamerican.com/...he-u-s-s-vaccine-schedule-to-denmarks-theyre/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...vaccines-to-align-with-denmark-will-endanger/

 

Indian authorities are rushing to contain a Nipah virus outbreak after five cases were reported and nearly 100 people quarantined in the eastern state of West Bengal, Azernews reports via The Independent.

Among those infected are two nurses, a doctor, and a healthcare worker, raising concerns over hospital-based transmission. Health officials said some patients remain in critical condition, while others are showing signs of recovery.

The Nipah virus is classified by the World Health Organization as a priority pathogen due to its high epidemic potential and fatality rate. At present, there is no approved vaccine or specific antiviral treatment for the virus.

Early symptoms typically include high fever, headache, muscle pain, vomiting, and general weakness. In more severe cases, the infection can lead to acute encephalitis, respiratory failure, and coma. Survivors of severe illness may face long-term neurological complications.

Authorities have stepped up surveillance, contact tracing, and isolation protocols as efforts continue to prevent further spread of the virus in the region.

The new confirmed cases included a doctor, a nurse, and a health staff member, news wire agency Press Trust of India reported.

Nearly 100 people have been asked to quarantine in their homes after the first case came to light on Monday, the government officials said.

People with the latest infections have been admitted to the infectious diseases hospital in eastern Kolkata’s Beleghata, while the earlier ones are still admitted in the Intensive Care Unit at a private hospital.

just something to monitor

Covid started out small as well

 

^India says they have it under control, but airport checks are in place in several Asian countries.

Meanwhile in the US, the stupid has predictable results...



Of all the things that have happened during my life, I still have a hard time believing we politicized public health to where federal policies will encourage the deaths of Americans and a good number of Americans will cheer that on. Sure, you can argue about Reagan and AIDS, but I see that as both being trapped by their family values/homophobic rhetoric and a sin of omission in that they really didn't want to think about gay sex, particularly given the disproportionate number of closeted Republicans. This is commission. They know exactly what they are doing, they like it, and they are happy with the results.

 

And the nation as a whole. Straight vertical lines are not good, y'all.

 

They clearly aren't drinking enough whole milk.

 

@basso If you were younger and had a small child this could have been you. Eat up that propaganda & conspiracy, then defecate this lovely graph.

 

please, be fruitful, and multiply with yourself.

 

nom nom nom Foxnews and right wing billionaire financed propaganda. It’s delicious isn’t it Basso?!?

 

thank you.

welcome to the list.

 

People need to stop taking Tylenol immediately so we can begin to get a handle on this.

 

i took some with a motrin chaser after shoveling snow.

 

That vertical spike in 2025–26 is not being caused by 2025–26 policy. Measles cases now mostly reflect missed childhood vaccinations from years earlier, roughly 2018–2024, when these kids should have received MMR.

During that period, US policy was still pro-vaccine. What changed was sentiment. Exemptions increased and routine shots declined, driven largely by anti-vaccine messaging.

RFK Jr was a major amplifier of that sentiment in those years. Now that he runs HHS, that same attitude is moving from culture into federal policy.

So what we are seeing now is just the delayed effect of earlier vaccine refusal. With federal policy now following that sentiment, today’s spike will look small compared to what appears years from now, for measles and other preventable childhood diseases.

 

In May 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat in the White House and downed a shot of raw milk to celebrate the publication of the MAHA Report, a document full of AI slop and fake citations that was meant to present the Secretary of Health and Human Services’s solutions for chronic diseases and other ailments plaguing America. Kennedy had been a loud proponent of raw milk for years, promising in an October 2024 tweet that under his tenure the FDA, a key milk regulator, would stop “suppressing” the drink.

 

Dumb, uh, finds a way.