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This year’s spikes in measles cases could cause the U.S. to lose its “elimination status” by next year after the CDC reports nearly 2,000 cases and 50 outbreaks nationwide.

  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
    50·
    22 hours ago

    It’s entirely unsurprising, considering people voted for a person who said they were going to put an antivaxer in charge of stopping communicable disease.

    It would be a net positive for society if rfk died of measles.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
      419·
      16 hours ago

      To be completely fair this measles issue started well before this current administration

      • GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world
        8·
        7 hours ago

        Yeah looks like 2019 was a bad year too. Let’s lay into that President as well; looks like it was…

      • excral@feddit.org
        2·
        6 hours ago

        It was probably corona counter-measures that stopped measles from spreading from 2020 onward, but now that Trump is back in office, he picks up right were he left

      • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
        24·
        20 hours ago

        He’s been. Spreading vaccine misinformation for years

        The anti-vaccine nonprofit Children’s Health Defense has spent years railing against a federal public health apparatus it says is foisting unsafe shots upon American youths after having lied to the country about the Covid-19 pandemic.

        Now, the group’s most famous former leader and its founder, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is on the inside. It’s the “moment of truth” — the name the group has given its third conference this weekend in Austin, Texas — for the power of what was once seen as a fringe movement.

        And

        A stark example of the devastating impact of vaccine misinformation is Samoa’s 2019 measles outbreak. In this island nation of 200 000, more than 5700 people were infected and 83 people died, most of whom were young children. Samoa’s Ministry of Health cited Kennedy’s visit and his rhetoric as exacerbating vaccine hesitancy vaccine hesitancy at a crucial moment.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        19 hours ago

        To be completely fair, rising rates of measles prior to 2024 or even 2016 and the general increase in antivaxer sentiment for decades has nothing to do with rfks death by measles being a win for society.