Two Days After Shooting His Mouth Off, RFK Jr. Rushing A Whole 2,000 MMR Vaccines To TX Outbreak

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Two days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday said he recognizes the serious impact of the ongoing measles epidemic in Texas – in which a child died recently – and said the government is providing resources, including protective vaccines. “Ending the measles outbreak is a top priority for me and my extraordinary team,” Kennedy – an avowed anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who for years has sown doubts about the safety and efficacy of vaccines – said in a post on X.

Kennedy said his federal Department of Health and Human Services would send Texas 2,000 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine – typically meant to be given to children in a series of two shots at 12 to 15 months old as well as between the ages of four and six years old – through its immunization program.

Earlier, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) upheld the role of vaccines in offering protection against measles after an unvaccinated child died from an infection this week. The death, reported on Wednesday, was the first US fatality from the highly contagious disease in a decade. Government data shows a growing outbreak with more than 140 cases reported in Texas since late January.

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Also on Friday, Kennedy’s health and human services department announced plans to eliminate public participation in many of the agency’s policy decisions – a proposal that explicitly flouts a promise of “radical transparency” that he previously made to Congress while lawmakers considered confirming his appointment to the cabinet of Donald Trump’s second presidential administration.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-health-department

[Scrivener7]

1. Stupid creep.

[surfered]

2. I suppose we should be doing the right thing, instead of trying to sweep it under the rug.

[AloeVera]

3. It's 2000 doses.

It's a joke.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Here in New York, I thought the MMR vaccine was required to attend school

A few years back, a friend of mine returned to college and the MMR vaccine was required before she could attend classes. I know, since I drove her to the municipal center to get the vaccine. And, as a kid, I can remember getting vaccine shots right at school, both in the early grades and even in high school - from what I remember, all the kids were getting them.