RFK Jr.’s Vitamin A Fix for Measles Is Hurting Kids in Texas
https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-s-vitamin-a-fix-for-measles-is-hurting-kids-in-texas-2000585347
A children's hospital has reported several cases of children being treated for both measles and vitamin A toxicity.
The largest #measles outbreak by far is in West #Texas, where the #disease is spreading quickly in remote, rural areas where the #vaccination rates are low. The outbreak has also spread across the boarder into #NewMexico, but the outbreak there is moving more slowly due to higher vaccination rates.
The US now has >600 #measles cases in 22 states, acc/to the #CDC [& who knows if that’s being accurately reported]. That includes 481 cases in #Texas alone. The country has now reported >2X the number of measles cases this year than were reported in all of 2024.
The CDC says there have been 6 measles #outbreaks so far this year.
#health #PublicHealth #vaccines #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr #HHS #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328765/measles-outbreak-health-risk
#Cancer, #Covid, & #Alzheimers #Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before #RFKJr announced that 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
#Trump #health #science #medicine #AntiIntellectualism #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
The #Senate Cmte on #Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions invited #RFKJr to attend a hearing next week to explain the firings. The committee is chaired by Republican U.S. Senator & physician #BillCassidy of Louisiana, whose vote was key to Kennedy's confirmation.
#Trump layoffs begin to erode #FDA drug review system
The Trump admin's #MassFirings at the FDA have removed employees critical to reviewing new #medicines, setting back years of effort to bring promising #treatments to #patients more quickly.
The FDA is slated to lose 3,500 employees under Secy of #HHS #RFKJr's massive *restructuring* of US #health agencies….
#NIH #CDC #FDA #PublicHealth #ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #research #disease #ethics #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-layoffs-begin-erode-fda-drug-review-system-2025-04-04/
No plan—not his *MAHA* agenda, not efficiency, nothing—can realistically explain cuts like these. Instead, the #MassFirings don’t seem to be a means to an end on the way to overhauling American #health. They are an end in themselves.
It’ll take months, if not years, to fully appreciate the effect that the cuts will have on America’s scientific enterprise.
the director of the National Institute of #ChildHealth & Human Development [#NICHD], the director of the #NIH’s Division of #Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, the director of the National Institute of #Nursing #Research [#NINR], & the director of the National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities [#NIMHD].
…#RFKJr, an #AntiVaccine advocate, seems to have targeted more than just the most pro-#vaccine voices in the govt. During his confirmation hearings, Kennedy said he would “empower the scientists” as #health secy, but here are just a few of the MDs & PhDs who were reportedly targeted yesterday:
Even before he took office, #RFKJr warned #health ofcls that they should pack their bags, & on Tues, he defended the cuts: “What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” RFKJr posted. He [says he] is focused on “realigning #HHS w/its core mission: to stop the chronic #disease epidemic & Make America Healthy Again.” But instead of improving how the federal health bureaucracy works, RFKJr is throwing his agencies into #chaos.
#RFKJr Is Out for Revenge
By Nicholas Florko
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is finally getting his wish of sucker-punching the federal #health agencies. This week, Kennedy began the process of firing some 10k employees working under the #HHS umbrella.
#GiftArticle #PublicHealth #AntiVaxxer #ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #research #disease #ethics #Trump #USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/rfk-jr-hhs-layoffs-end-game/682276/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxcSBkUX6DzVli5zuhIWDVp0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Update. The Dept of Health and Human Services (#HHS) can no longer fulfill requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act (#FOIA), at least not without "exponentially" longer delays and backlogs. #RFKjr — who promised "radical transparency" — fired the staffers who handled those requests. A spokesperson said the layoffs will "streamline" the department and the work "will continue".
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/03/g-s1-57888/hhs-fda-rfk-foia-public-records
Jesse Lee: "Many government programs prevent people from dying.
Eliminating them makes more people die."
#Musk #RFKjr #mismanagement #extremism #destructiveness #healthcare #politics
"Widespread layoffs this week at the Department of Health and Human Services have effectively dismantled programs aimed at keeping Americans safe from extreme heat and other climate-driven weather":
https://www.eenews.net/articles/hhs-extreme-heat-programs-hollowed-out-by-trump-staff-cuts/
#Musk #RFKjr #mismanagement #extremism #destructiveness #healthcare #politics
Josh Marshall: "The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is the agency that manages Medicare, Medicaid and other government health programs. On Monday they were instructed to devise a plan to cut their budget by roughly one third and were given four days to decide what to cut."
#Musk #RFKjr #mismanagement #extremism #destructiveness #healthcare #politics
Perhaps you could blame the brainworm in your fucking head, working the controls,
....you leathery aristocratic fuck?
Try 90% "mistakes" and not really mistakes if you are *planning* to rehire within days. There is absolutely no reason to believe these are mistakes. This is intentional sabotage.
He is dumb as a doorknob!
2/ "Personnel that shd not have been cut, were cut. We're reinstating them & that was always the plan. Part of DOGE, we talked abt this from beginning, is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, bc we'll make mistakes”: #RFKJr
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr. says 20% of health age...
