How Measles, Whooping Cough, and Worse Could Roar Back on RFK Jr.’s Watch - KFF Health News
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Summary

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as the top U.S. health official under Donald Trump has alarmed public health experts, who fear his anti-vaccine stance could lead to outbreaks of diseases like measles, polio, and meningitis.

Kennedy has promoted debunked vaccine-autism theories and may weaken federal vaccination programs, delay new vaccines, and undermine immunization requirements.

Vaccine-preventable illnesses are already rising, with 16 U.S. measles outbreaks this year.

Experts warn that declining vaccination rates threaten public health, while drug companies and vaccine advocates brace for significant challenges under the new administration.

  • @Etterra
    8•4 days ago

    I’m very much not religious, but I’m rather familiar with Christian mythology. Trump ticks off just about every box for “antichrist” and now RFK is set up to full the role of Horseman of the Apocalypse (Plague). With Putin in and Netanyahu in the running for several each, I can’t help but feel grim amusement at the fact that so many so-called Christians deliberately (and blindly) voted for their own nemesis to run things.

    I know they’ve never actually read their own handbook, but it’s so absurd to see them doing exactly what alleged prophecy said they’d do. The fact that the book of Revelations was just a thinly veiled diatribe against Rome makes it almost funny that these idiots are not only once again setting history on loop, but are completely oblivious to a history that’s written in their own favorite book of fairy tales.