Measles outbreaks are spreading across the U.S., and the nation is likely to lose its status as a country where the disease is eliminated, something that infectious disease specialists say is directly related to Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
South Carolina this week quarantined at least 254 people after confirming more than two dozen measles cases in the state. It’s the latest in what has been the worst year for measles in the U.S. in recent history.
An outbreak in West Texas this year saw more than 700 confirmed cases since January and the deaths of two children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 47 reported outbreaks in the country this year.
So you’re telling me, as it’s spreading across the US, as it has been doing for months now, that it’s currently still considered eliminated? Cool. Just like how visiting the CDC’s covid page shows it hasn’t been updated since late Sept. Everything is cool.
COVID still at #5.
Alzheimer’s #6 so the solution was end all Alzheimer’s research via NIH in 2025.
RFK stands for Rubella For Kids!
1 person potentially dies if a vaccine with suspect evidence and we hear nonstop about how dangerous vaccines are. Children start dying of measles and it’s a risk they’re willing to take.
Isn’t dead children like the #1 totally acceptable sacrifice in the US at this point?
Sandy Hook made that ABUDANTLY clear
Maybe you could just eat or smear some ivermectin on it. Or pray that it goes away.
Or do some pullups at the airport. The health effect is maximized if you wear jeans and no shirt.
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A healthy, well educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
Poor too. They need you to be poor.
If only we had some injection to prevent this.
Maybe we could weaken the virus or kill it, so it just floats around until the body attacks it…
Then the body could learn how to defend against it? Are we on to something here? Maybe we call it…a MAGAination?
Why did Kamala and Biden do this to us? They left us a horrible medical situation and we are just trying to dig out from under it…
-cheeto mcpedo, probably
Have the country you voted for assholes.
Trouble is half of us voted against it and still get to suffer the consequences. I’m not having fun anymore.
Trump was the result of decades of voting farther and farther right while catering to middle class white America. We got what we deserved
What middle class? But fair enough. I just can’t help but feel I got shafted when the first president election I was old enough to vote in had trump on the ballot.
The middle class thrived pretty well after the new deal. If you were white. Your choice in the election was the direct result of selfishness and keeping anyone not a WASP out of any possibility of prosperity
It wasn’t enough to stop or even curtail this fascism even a little bit.
Pro death party strikes again
They really are.
Ah but RFK knows fire kills measles, COVID and cancer.
Check out these sweet thangs on black friday 2026…
At least none of them will die of autism.
Republicans now aew acknowledging this and blaming immigrants
As much as there is to say about Kennedy, vaccine conspiracies started decades before his tenure, and there are many villains to that story.
I think it’s counterproductive to pin it on him.
there are many villains to that story.
But none of these assholes were United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
