Republicans ignoring the measles epidemic in Texas while RFKjr still talks about cod liver oil treatment!

Kennedy is already undermining vaccines” (April 13, Nation):

During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. But in office, he and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching, sometimes subtle steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety.

RFKjr is the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is unqualified with no medical experience. Meanwhle, Texas is experiencing its largest measles ourbreak in 30 years. The virus has infeced more than 600 people and killled two school aged children, reports The Texas Tribune, Terri Langford and Yuriko Schumacher on April 22, 2025.

The National Institutes of Health halted funding for researchers who study vaccine hesitancy and hoped to find ways to overcome it. It also canceled programs intended to discover new vaccines to prevent future pandemics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shelved an advertising campaign for the flu shot. Kennedy has said inaccurately that the scientists who advise the CDC on vaccines have “severe, severe conflicts of interest” in promoting the products and cannot be trusted. The Health and Human Services Department cut billions of dollars to state health agencies, including funds needed to modernize state programs for childhood immunization. 

RFK Jr.: ‘Faustian bargains’

The most telling part of this article was the quote by Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Cassidy complained that Kennedy was “pissing away money” by spending taxpayer dollars to reexamine the oft studied and discredited claim that vaccines cause autism.

Cassidy’s crocodile tears are the perfect example of the duplicity and indeed cowardice of Republican politicians (For example, Maine Writer identified Senator Susan Collins among the cowards❗). Cassidy, a physician, was instrumental in getting Kennedy confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services, although he surely knew about Kennedy’s crackpot theories and anti-vaccine rants. The Republican senator failed to honor his oath as a physician and in fact failed the American public when he embraced a toxic mixture of self-deception and sycophancy toward Donald Trump, in order to guarantee Kennedy’s nomination.

Cassidy’s support of an unqualified and dangerous candidate like Kennedy is emblematic of today’s Republican politicians and their penchant for Faustian bargains, in order to please the self-annointed stable genius.

From Larry Wechsler, in Edmonds Washington State

P.S. RFKjr continues to sell the snake oil lie about treatment for measles, but the most reliable cure for the virus is to prevent it with the MMR vaccine.  Cod liver oil and Vitamin A treatment is not a treatment for measles.  Vitamin A does help to minimize any eye involvement caused by the virus but does not treat the disease.