Vaccine-hesitant parents are taking treatment into their own hands after claims from the US Health Secretary, experts fear

Summary

Texas hospitals are treating children with vitamin A poisoning linked to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promotion of the supplement as a measles treatment.

At Covenant Children’s hospital in Lubbock, patients with measles showed abnormal liver function due to excessive vitamin A intake.

Kennedy, the U.S. health secretary, claimed vitamin A dramatically reduces measles mortality. Experts warn his messaging confuses parents and downplays the proven protection of the MMR vaccine.

The U.S. faces its worst measles outbreak in decades, with nearly 500 cases across 21 states and two confirmed deaths.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    12 days ago

    Yes. I would 100% enjoy mandatory vaccinations when those vaccines are standardized, well regulated, and proven to save countless lives. I want to be forced to take the shot, I want the person to my right to be forced, I want the person to my left to be forced.

    I want to save people from horrible death and lifelong disability. I want to eradicate diseases.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 days ago

        There have been and there will be. And there have been reports of adverse side effects. We study these cases in depth. You’re worse off without the vaccine by a massive margin. Society is worse off.

          • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            11 days ago

            One thing you mentioned is that studies lie. Academic Studies are the first and foremost most reliable source of information on this earth, your distrust of them is basically an admission that you prefer comforting lies.

              • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                11 days ago

                Literally everyone will die after taking the vaccine, be it one day or a hundred years later. Nobody has ever died from the vaccine. We’ve studied this, there is no potential way for a person to die from being injected with a target antigen.