The US measles outbreak now exceeds 300 cases. The continued failure of HHS to advocate for and support state health agency efforts to test, trace, inform, and vaccinate will worsen the crisis.
These terrible measles outbreaks bode poorly for potential problems with future outbreaks of dangerous but vaccine-preventable diseases such as chickenpox and cancers caused by human papilloma virus. Unfortunately our new health minister has strongly opposed vaccines in the past, and now frames vaccination as a personal choice when the science has proven the opposite, i.e. that lack of vaccination promotes community spread of disease. RFK Jr. will be incapable of addressing the next pandemic because his views reflect his medical ignorance and his actions have proven that he doesn’t know how to protect the health of the public.
These terrible measles outbreaks bode poorly for potential problems with future outbreaks of dangerous but vaccine-preventable diseases such as chickenpox and cancers caused by human papilloma virus. Unfortunately our new health minister has strongly opposed vaccines in the past, and now frames vaccination as a personal choice when the science has proven the opposite, i.e. that lack of vaccination promotes community spread of disease. RFK Jr. will be incapable of addressing the next pandemic because his views reflect his medical ignorance and his actions have proven that he doesn’t know how to protect the health of the public.