RFJ jr to lead Department of Health and Human Services

'It's not unusual' ~RFK Jr.

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/-...n-growing-texas-measles-outbreak-232983109592

 

Experts and collaboration are important. Perhaps CDC can get the DODGE team involved to quickly figure out what's going on and contain this.


A mystery disease in Congo has led to over 50 deaths. Here's what to know about its potential to spread.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-disease-congo-what-we-know/

A mystery illness has caused over 50 deaths amid multiple outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, doctors say.

At least 431 cases have been reported across at least two villages in a northwest region of the central African nation, according to the most recent bulletin from the World Health Organization's Africa office on Feb. 16.

Preliminary investigations traced the first outbreak to three children who became sick and died after eating a bat carcass, the bulletin says.

"What has many public health officials concerned is hearing that some of these kids who died consumed a bat carcass," Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News medical contributor and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, said on "CBS Mornings" Wednesday.

Bats can carry many different infectious diseases, including Ebola and coronaviruses, Gounder said.

At least 53 deaths have been reported, the bulletin from the WHO's Africa office says. The initial outbreak reported at least 12 cases and 8 deaths, while the second cluster reported at least 419 cases and 45 deaths.

The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been just 48 hours in the majority of cases, and "that's what's really worrying," Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center, told The Associated Press on Monday.

The WHO's Africa office warns that the remote location of these outbreaks and weak health care infrastructure "increase the risk of further spread, requiring immediate high-level intervention to contain the outbreak."
But, transmission depends on what the illness is confirmed to be.

If it is malaria, Gounder said she's "not overly concerned" of the outbreaks sparking a global pandemic as it "should be fairly easy to contain."

However, Gounder said the outbreaks highlight another concern: the public health impact of President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization as well as cuts to federal agencies.

"Should we be worried about another pandemic? Absolutely," she said. "We have seen the emergence of infectious disease accelerate over the last couple of decades."

And pulling back staffing, such as layoffs at the CDC or dismantling USAID, will make on-the-ground investigations more difficult, she said.

While the CDC is in communication with the Ministry of Health in the DRC, Gounder said, "It certainly makes it harder when we're not part of the WHO team anymore, particularly in countries that are not very friendly, who are suspicious of the United States."

 

Do you get a flu shot every year?

Well, not this year because there's a drug addict racist lunatic quack in charge of HHS who hates medicine

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
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10s maybe 100s of thousands of Americans will die

I don't get how we survive 4 years of this - massive recession, totally collapsing infrastructure at home _ abroad, looted government, legalized corruption- this is the literal disintegration of the US of A at frightening speed

 

Nah . . . don't worry about it until it gets to Iowa or Kentucky

Rocket River

 

or Springfield, Ohio. I hear that the migrants are eating the cats and dogs there.

 

Show of hands. Who thinks that we should send to the Congo all of our spare Ivermectin. I hear the apple flavor tastes yummy!

 

No Flu Shots For You!

https://archive.ph/LQgZ2

 

It's like Speed Racer and Racer X working together

 

We should feed ivermectin to all them chickens and cure their case of the sniffles pronto.

Much Success with Trump's Eggs Plosion Plan!!

 

Vaccine critic RFK Jr. backs measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak - CBS News

Kennedy said he was "deeply concerned about the recent measles outbreak," in an opinion piece published by Fox News.

"Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons," he wrote.


However, he said, "The decision to vaccinate is a personal one," and he urged all parents to "consult with their healthcare providers to understand their options to get the MMR vaccine."

He said he had directed federal health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to provide support to Texas health authorities.

The CDC and other health agencies have faced staffing cuts in recent weeks as part of President Trump's sweeping overhaul of the federal government.

Kennedy said health workers, officials and communities were responsible for "ensuring that accurate information about vaccine safety and efficacy is disseminated" and making "vaccines readily accessible for all those who want them."

 

As anti-vaccine disinformation takes hold, more Americans dying of the flu

Flu-related deaths hit a seven-year high in January and February, the two months that usually account for the height of flu season, according to a Stateline analysis of preliminary federal statistics. There were about 9,800 deaths across the country, up from 5,000 in the same period last year.


https://www.news-leader.com/story/n...accine-disinformation-takes-root/82549515007/

 

Since taking the helm of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has both backed vaccination
as a public health tool and made remarks that threaten to undermine it.



His moves have played out against the backdrop of an explosion in vaccine-preventable measles cases in West Texas and an intense flu season that resulted in high rates of hospitalization,
along with bird flu outbreaks that have raised the specter of another pandemic.

In response to a measles outbreak in West Texas that’s seen a mounting case count and killed one child, Kennedy authored an op-ed published by Fox News on March 2 that said
it’s important to make vaccines “readily accessible for all those who want them” and noted that such shots “contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to
be vaccinated due to medical reasons.” He also wrote that “the decision to vaccinate is a personal one” and that “good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and
\infectious illnesses.” The op-ed came after Kennedy had appeared to downplay the outbreak, saying during a Trump Cabinet meeting that it was “not unusual.”​

 

My virologist friend recommended that my family get new measles shots; she said that measles vaccinations start to lose efficacy after about 15 years.

The more you know.

 

Trump moved the Special Education Services from the Dept of Education under Health and Human Services now. That's scary.

Advocates Fear RFK Jr. Could Reverse Decades of Progress for Autistic Kids

https://www.the74million.org/articl...everse-decades-of-progress-for-autistic-kids/

 

If you haven't had it, but have had the vaccine: adults could/should get a MMR booster, talk to your doctor especially wrt the kiddos

 

I don't see a lot of ads for vaccines (and when I do, they are Walgreens/CVS ads). I do see them for boner pills, hair growth, random supplements, and sometimes allergy or skin conditions.

 

And the boner pill ads are frequent on sports networks.

 

I am all for banning pharmaceutical company ads, but all for vaccine awareness ads because vaccines can save lives. If Trump and RFK Jr actually want to stand up to Big Pharma they better not abandon policies like Medicare drug price negotiations and patent reform that would save Americans hundreds of billions of dollars on lifesaving drugs. Big Pharma will reap in the profits if they can convince Trump to abandon those policies. If anything, they need to amp it up a notch and control the price gouging. We'll see what happens, but billionaires seem to bribe Trump into giving them what they want more than ever now, especially with Trump embracing bribery as legal.