“It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and R.F.K. Jr. very fast.”
~ Seth Rogen
Elliot Kirschner thinks Rogen's reference to $320 million is to the total amount given by the Breakthrough Prize to scientists over the years. Rogen made the comment at the recent awards ceremony for that prize.
#WhoopingCough #measles #vaccines #RFKJr #Trump #vaccination #CDC #HHS #science #medicine #healthcare
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"Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED."
~ David Gilbert
#WhoopingCough #measles #vaccines #RFKJr #Trump #vaccination #CDC #HHS
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https://www.wired.com/story/department-health-human-services-possible-collapse/
"Sugerman estimated that each measles case may end up costing the government between $30,000 and $50,000 for a public health response.
Meanwhile, Kennedy was once again pushing misinformation about the measles vaccine, calling it 'leaky' and saying that it 'wanes,' during a separate press event on Tuesday."
“'We do believe that there’s quite a large amount of cases that are not reported and underreported,' Sugerman said during a rare meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Tuesday. ...
The majority of cases have been among unvaccinated children, with 2 children and one adult marking the first U.S. measles deaths in more than a decade and the first child measles death since 2003."
"David Sugerman, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that a large number of measles cases are going unreported—and that the government’s ability to respond has been strained by recent federal budget cuts."
~ Walter Einenkel
"Public health experts worry that childhood vaccination rates could dip further under the current Trump administration with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm of the US Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC."
#WhoopingCough #measles #vaccines #RFKJr #Trump #vaccination
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"After a decade of nearly 95 percent of children nationwide receiving all four of the major childhood vaccines—MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella), DTaP, poliovirus, and chickenpox—coverage declined to 93 percent from 2019 to 2023. It fell again, to below 93 percent, during the 2023 to 2024 school year, while the number of exemptions from one or more vaccines among kindergartners grew."
#WhoopingCough #measles #vaccines #RFKJr #Trump #vaccination
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"This year, there have been at least 7,599 cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, up from 3,473 cases at this time last year, according to the latest tally by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
Nationwide, there were 35,435 cases of whooping cough in 2024, compared with 7,063 in 2023, according to a provisional surveillance report from the CDC."
~ Emily Mullin
#WhoopingCough #measles #vaccines #RFKJr #Trump #vaccination
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https://www.wired.com/story/measles-cases-are-rising-other-diseases-could-follow/
@bicmay Certainly not most industrialized countries. And since we've abandoned all other forms of #COVID prevention (not me, but our gov't and most people), #vaccination is the last line of defense. And the data about #LongCovid is increasingly scary, e.g. increased rates of cardiovascular problems among children and adolescents.
Good news: my blood titer results came back and it turns out I still have measles immunity from the childhood MMR vaccine I got back in the last century. Because my parents were not idiots. I have passed on the family tradition of not being idiots by fully vaccinating my kids.
Parents, don’t be idiots.
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health reports an unvaccinated child in DonÞa Ana County has been diagnosed with measles – the first measles case in that county.
The DonÞa Ana County case plus four additional cases among unvaccinated people in Lea County brings the total number of measles cases in New Mexico to 63.
@TheBulwark @the-bulwark-online-TheBulwark While much of this article's analysis of why #RFKJr is wrong is solid, it vastly understates the consequences of what he's doing, which is far worse than false hope. He's setting this all up to undermine #vaccination, and the price for that will be paid in deaths. Lots of deaths. #ImpeachRFKJr
Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton
It’s not hard to connect the dots.
Once considered eradicated, measles is now escalating.
Naval Hospital Bremerton public health and preventive medicine providers have been paying close attention to locally confirmed measle cases in the Puget Sound area, as well as outbreaks across the country.
While there isn’t cause for alarm, but there is always a need for awareness.
“Measles is an airborne, extremely infectious, and potentially severe viral illness. It is spread when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes to release virus in the air. Measles can cause a mild febrile illness with a rash or lead to hospitalization (one in five), pneumonia (one in 20), brain infection and possibly death,” said Capt. Jackie McDowell, NHB preventive and occupational medicine physician."
#vaccination #vaccines #measles #measlesoutbreak
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/495240/connect-dots-about-measles
4yo: So <friend's> brother got chickenpox. And <another friend> had chickenpox when she was just one year old!
mom: Oh, that sounds very uncomfortable...
4yo: When I'll get chickenpox, I'll also stay at home.
mom: We got you vaccinated, you don't need to go through chickenpox
4yo: (hugs mom) ohhh, thanks mom!
This kid sees it clearly :-D
#vaccination #VaccinesWork
Measles outbreaks spark concern over rare 'horrific' neurological disorder
As measles outbreaks in Canada grow and spread between provinces, pediatricians are again recommending vaccinations while also bracing for serious complications, including a rare, long-term neurological disorder that can emerge six to 10 years after an initial measles infection.
#health #disease #vaccination #Canada #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/measles-complications-1.7508645?cmp=rss
Measles outbreaks spark concern over rare 'horrific' neurological disorder
As measles outbreaks in Canada grow and spread between provinces, pediatricians are again recommending vaccinations while also bracing for serious complications, including a rare, long-term neurological disorder that can emerge six to 10 years after an initial measles infection.
#health #disease #vaccination #Canada #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/measles-complications-1.7508645?cmp=rss
After a vaccine was introduced shortly before I was born in 1950, the incidence in the US declined by 90%+.
And now it's back, and its reappearance is directly related to vaccine refusal — that is, to people's willingness to believe nonsense and lies, and to show utter disdain for the common good in doing so.
Talk about a society choosing self-destruction, choosing suicide.
#Trump #RFKJr #WhoopingCough #pertussis #measles #vaccines #vaccination #science #healthcare
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But now also whooping cough, which has now caused the death of two babies in Louisiana, and deaths in Washington state, Idaho, and South Dakota after two deaths in Oregon last year.
In my childhood, I heard stories from the generations prior to me about how serious whooping cough had been for children in their growing-up years, and how children sometimes died of it.
#Trump #RFKJr #WhoopingCough #pertussis #measles #vaccines #vaccination #science #healthcare
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