Business Insider reports — with a chart to demonstrate the point — that measles cases are "spreading exponentially" in the US right now.
#measles #vaccines #vaccination #RFKJr #CDC
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https://www.businessinsider.com/charts-show-measles-spreading-in-us-states-2025-4
"Because to be clear, when you choose not to get vaccinated in a country like the US, what you are ultimately doing is free-riding on the backs of everyone else who did their part."
"If you view vaccination as an individual choice and believe that anyone should be able to opt out for any reason at any time, then what you’re saying is that it’s okay to decide not to uphold your end of the social contract; that it’s okay to free-ride off of everyone else who actually did go get vaccinated."
She responds to CDC:
"The truth is, when it comes to public health, there really isn’t such a thing as a 'personal' or 'individual' choice — because every choice we make as individuals has implications for the health of those around us. Framing vaccination as an issue of 'personal choice' disregards the fact that choosing not to get vaccinated ultimately strips other people of their personal choice to stay healthy or to live a normal life."
Caroline Orr Bueno reports that ProPublica contacted the CDC to ask why it suppressed a report warning that the risk of measles is higher in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lower.
CDC responded,
“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one." As Bueno notes, this echoes HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s own language about vaccination.
#measles #vaccines #vaccination #RFKJr #CDC
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https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/no-vaccination-is-not-a-personal
“Given the substantial economic and social burden of dementia, policymakers and health-care providers might need to reassess the value of widespread herpes zoster vaccination, particularly in older adults.”
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#Vaccination #Shingles #Dementia #Science
Extraordinary
“Although it is still unclear precisely how herpes zoster vaccination lowers the risk of dementia, the implications of the study are profound. The vaccine could represent a cost-effective intervention that has public-health benefits strongly exceeding its intended purpose.”
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#Dementia #Shingles #Science #Vaccination
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00861-2
"Staff who track emerging potentially deadly pathogens were fired. Staff who work on scientific and medical mysteries that hold the keys to cancer cures and efforts to address chronic diseases were fired."
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
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"Some of the nation’s top career scientific, public health and medical officials were fired.
Staff who protect millions of people who rely on Medicare and Medicaid were fired. Staff who’ve spent years developing safer alternatives to tobacco products that kill millions were fired."
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
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"President Donald Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put the nation at risk today and made us all far less safe by firing thousands of dedicated public health, medical and scientific staff across multiple agencies at HHS."
~ Jeff Nesbit
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-and-kennedy-just-put-america
In response to the mass firings at HHS about which we've learned today, David Corn of MSNBC addresses Senator Cassidy of Louisiana who strongly supported RFKJr.'s confirmation:
“Sen. Bill Cassidy, you violated the Hippocratic oath when you supported RFK Jr.’s nomination and you own this—and all the horrific consequences to come.”
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
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"The mass culling of the labor force of the Department of Health and Human Services began on Tuesday morning. And early indications are that it’s a bloodbath.
~ Sam Stein
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/innocent-brutal-prison-abroad-deportation-ms-13-court-salvador
"The Texas health department said on Friday that the number of measles cases in the state rose 20% since its last report three days ago, as experts warn they expect the outbreak to further spread in coming weeks."
~ Reuters
#RFKJr. #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
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"Trump has no intention of stopping him because MAGA hates vaccines and has no confidence in public health authorities. He has an open field to conduct a virtual laboratory experiment designed to prove that insanity is an effective substitute for sound science & decades of public health research and experience,
Kennedy has serious emotional and mental problems and is unfit to lead an agency of this importance."
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research
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"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assured the Senate that he would not interfere in the public’s right to secure vaccines. He lied. He has taken several steps to end public-private partnerships in the vaccine development area. He promised no major changes at HHS and FDA. He lied."
~ Mark Mansour
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research
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https://mmansour.substack.com/p/robert-f-kennedy-jr-lied-to-congress
Record high Influenza cases confirmed as experts say flu season has started early
Get your flu shots, Australia!
Two good reports on the measles situation in the US and how officials are (not) addressing it:
Patricia Callahan noting that the CDC buried a measles forecast stressing need for vaccination:
https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report
And Stephanie Kirchgaessner on the resignation of Dr. Peter Marks, top US vaccine official, in protest over RFKJr's misinformation:
"The federal government reported on Friday that there have been 483 confirmed cases of measles across 20 US jurisdictions so far this year, with the largest outbreak in Texas, and 70 people across the nation needing to be hospitalized.
That compares with 285 cases of measles in the US for the whole of 2024."
~ Guardian
#measles #Texas #vaccines #vaccination #RFKJr
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/measles-cases-us-cdc
"The Kansas school districts most affected by the outbreak so far also have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state."
#measles #Kansas #Texas #NewMexico #vaccines #vaccination #RFKJr
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Fear of measles has some Alberta parents taking precautions, seeking early vaccination for infants
The fear of measles has some parents with infants in Alberta looking for ways to avoid exposure and take advantage of early vaccination opportunities.
#health #disease #vaccination #parents #Alberta #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-measles-mmr-vaccine-1.7494633?cmp=rss
