RFK, Jr gets measles vaccine, herd immunity, and Vitamin A deficiency WRONG AGAIN!

RFK, Jr continues to spread his ignorance and dish out the misinformation!

First, Kennedy is promoting Vitamin A supplementation over MMR vaccine. While correcting an actual deficiency of Vitamin A has been shown to lessen the severity of measles, it is NOT EFFECTIVE in preventing the infection.

Administration of MMR vaccine very early in the incubation period after an exposure and before onset of symptoms can reliably abort an infection in the previously susceptible patient. The MMR vaccine is safe and effective.

Administration of a single dose of MMR is 93% effective while the set of two doses is 97% effective at preventing the disease.

He is also mischaracterizing herd immunity. Herd immunity does not induce protection of an unvaccinated susceptible individual. Having a large enough percentage of the population immune to measles either by vaccination or prior infection merely breaks the chain of transmission by isolating the susceptible individual from exposure to the virus. For this likelihood to be high enough, the CDC recommends a minimum of 97% of the population being immune by vaccination or prior infection.

Kennedy’s misinformation even now in the midst of outbreaks emphasizes just how INCOMPETENT HE IS AND THE NEED TO REMOVE HIM AS HHS LEAD!

Thanks to RFK, Jr and his ilk, this disease which was eradicated in the US by 2000 once again poses a deadly threat to children and also serious complications including pneumonia, encephalitis, and deafness.

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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

The sad thing is he was a very competent environmental law attorney and probably would be a good fit for the EPA.

Sadly his passion now seems to be in areas he doesn't have training and doesn't understand.

KunsanVeteran · M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I doubt that he’s competent in anything. His logic is so flawed and he struggles to escape interviews without revealing his lies and incompetence.

Just. Like. tRUMP!

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SW-User

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow What good does training do? Doctors often get things wrong. Scientists are responsible for mass death. They keep people alive, but they also kill them. Why would you trust everything they do?

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@SW-User Are you serious? Of course all people are human and make mistakes. But would you go see a doctor for surgery or someone who watched a TV show and thinks they can do it with zero expertise and zero experience?

And your last comment makes no sense. Like it or not we still live in a world where truth and facts exist.

How biology works doesn't magically change because a youtuber manipulated your insecurities.

And in the case of MMR vaccines we have literally decades of data proving it works.

People like RFK think you can read something online you don't even have the education to understand and then invent conclusions from that with zero evidence to back it up.

In a rather imfamous case an actual expert on immunology actually had to put out a statement because Joe Rogan read his paper on vaccines, didn't understand it and made factually false statements about it to millions of people on his podcast.

SW-User

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Who made a statement? What is an “actual expert?”

I doubt RFK Jr. gets his information from youtube or is reading it online. He seems to be the kind of man who reads books. I also read books. I used to study medicine. As you said in another comment here, RFK Jr. is a very successful environmental lawyer. RFK Jr. believes we have come to rely on vaccines and pills too much. Nature has a way of dealing with these things. A natural solution is often the best solution. Do you not think medicine in the 21st century makes us lazy?

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@SW-User No. Not relying on "natural" solutions and modern medicine is why we have life expectancy above 35, childbirth is no longer the leading cause of death for women and we don't have 14 kids because half won't make it past age 5.

And law and medicine are not even remotely similar.

And I doubt your claim to have studied medicine since you seem to not even understand high school level science and research.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@SW-User You know what else is natural?

Cyanide, arsenic, lead, all things RFK used to fight against dumping.

This idea that natural = healthy is just ridiculous.

SW-User

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Have you eaten spinach or almonds? They contain cyanide. Arsenic is in our foods and many items we use. Rice and seafood have arsenic. Lead is often found in food and water. These things kill you when in the wrong hands, the hands of men.