In mid -March, Texas’ six -year -old girl’s parents died of measles complications. The first measles related to measles in the United States for more than 20 years -I decided to talk about what happened to my daughter.
But it was not an interview with the news outlet. Parents agreed to interviews a dedicated camera with Children’s Health Defense (CHD) employees, a non-profit organization that encourages anti-vabin feelings and policies. Their daughter, Kayley, was vaccinated
It was the point where parents defended in the interview.
Kayley’s father, who sometimes said through the translator, said, “It’s not as bad as the media is making.”
A few weeks later, according to public health authorities, an eight -year -old father, who became the second measles, talked with CHD through the video. The father asked if he regretted not vaccinating children, Daisy, or other children. My father said:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Minister of Health and Welfare met with these parents in April, he said. In the post of X“To console the family and join the community at the moment of sadness.” He advocated a very effective measles in the same post, which was very effective in the same post. A few hours later, in a separate post, he promoted unproven drugs for measles.
Kennedy attempted to respond to the spread of measles in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and as of April 10, at least 25 to 700 cases have been reported, and medical experts have a mix of messages. However, the focus of vaccination is also damaged by CHD, the presidency of the presidential antivity non -profit Kennedy from 2015 to 2023, the year of the presidential campaign.
times December 2024Kennedy says he no longer officially affiliated with this group and repeatedly questioned the safety of the vaccine. Including lawsuits. However, CHD still marks the previous relationship with Kennedy. The minister has a standalone tab in the group’s “information” section, which is the founder. This video site features Kennedy’s recent public appearances as a secretary, including the recent trip to Indiana and the first major press conference of its role.
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When asked about the site of the New York Times Kennedy spokesman said The minister sent a request to ask the group to stop the site.
Kennedy’s HHS spokesman did not immediately respond to the request. The representative of CHD, who was contacted through the form of the website, did not immediately respond to the request.
CHD boasts a video -centered site and a media device that includes a video -oriented site and podcasts that share claims about vaccine safety for MMR vaccines. On this platform, tinners and many guests publicly criticize news reports on public relations and related deaths, and public health officials say they include adults and two children who are not vaccinated by New Mexico. (Many videos also point out that the views of hosts and guests do not necessarily have to be a view of children’s health defense.)
One guest said that a guest who was identified as a doctor to discuss one of the girls’ medical history.
Measles, which are highly contagious air diseases, can appear through heat and rash. that It can make some people very sick: 1 in 20 people get pneumonia. 1-3 out of 1,000 people obtain brain edema known as encephalitis. One in 1,000 dies.
The range of CHD messaging, including interviews with parents expressing vaccine skepticism, shows how the so -called Vanbex Xers can inorgan the tragedy to promote the agenda. Surter has monitored online information on vaccines since the beginning of the fashionability for many customers.
“The group has long had a cherry blossom for a long time, and he sent an individual story to show a wide range of trends.” CHD pointed out that in the past, he shared a parent -centered video for vaccine injuries.
Kennedy I am a long -time vaccine skepticist In the process of controversial Senate this year, the person who tried to get away from the record led the vast health department of the state. Before Kennedy’s long -distance bidding for the Democratic presidential nomination, which was approved by the independent candidate and the Republican Republic of Donald Trump, he was closely related to the children’s health defense.
The non -profit organization, which was previously known as the World Mercury project, said, “It aims to end the child’s health infectious diseases by eliminating toxic exposure.” Former lawyers, Kennedy, went on vacation to run for the office in 2023. Wednesday at a press conference Kennedy guessed that environmental toxin You can play a role in autism -autism group Strongly criticized. (CHD has publicly connected vaccine with autism. Controversial claim.))
CHD’s messaging -The message of CHD, which includes a newsletter provided with a standalone site for “news and view”, emphasizes the evolution of the incorrect information and information about vaccines for vaccination speed for kindergarten. Decrease. Parents are already aiming for the goal of the social media influential account of their children’s health and health. Some of this information are packed in a video that can be more widely shared than before the vaccine skepticism, which has existed since the first vaccine was developed 200 years ago.
Some of the wrong information circulating online was that it was not a dangerous disease when measles spread in the 60s. (10 years before the vaccine was used in 1963 About 3 million to 4 million Americans were infected with measles every year.. He died between 400 and 500, and thousands were hospitalized every year.)
Surter said, “It is a wide range of lifestyle perspectives that integrate the vaccine and are especially packaged and subject to mothers.
Two capacity MMR vaccines are safe and 97 %are effective in preventing measles. The side effects of a pediatrician shared with their parents when their children are vaccinated can include painful arms and light rashes. Medical professionals are much greater than the risk of vaccine vaccinations.
Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a long -time expert in retired epidemics, said, “We do not hide side effects, but they only tell them what they are, and Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a long -standing expert in the recent retired infectious diseases, said, What is it? This is a really easy question. If you are not immunity, it is much better to immune than to have a disease. “
The video of “chd.tv” runs the area in terms of programming. In the video of a six -year -old girl’s parents, they say that her children will visit a nearby hospital as they have a fever. She died in February. According to parents, her brothers and sisters were also infected with measles but recovered. They apply for a treatment that says that medical professionals do not play a therapeutic role in treating or preventing measles infections. Nevertheless, Kennedy defended the treatment of secondary symptoms.
In a separate video, the staff speculated that an eight -year -old child died of another disease related to stay. Father with Later, Kennedy in CBS interview. CHD staff also criticized the scope of hospital management.
ABRAM WAGENER is an epidemiology professor at Michigan University who studies vaccine hesitation. He said that building trust in the community hesitant to the vaccine depends on Messenger, a well -known member of the community. He said that the anti -acid prevention group is powerful to travel to this community and emphasize the personal stories of parents, including the story technology of images and voices.
Wagner said it is important to consider the frame of these interviews related to the parents of children who have not been vaccinated. He experienced the loss of the child and pointed out that it was vulnerable in such an environment. He also wondered about the social impact of losing children in an intimate community. Both families are members of A Meno Night Community At the epicenter of the outbreak of West Texas.
Wagner added. This place has made efforts to enter the community to cope with the anti -acid messaging to public health officials, including these community officials, WAGNER added. This week, an official of the CDC told the vaccine committee that federal officials were scratching the resources and manpower needed to provide support to Texas and other jurisdictions.
“The problem is how to make a reliable messenger and how do you develop it over time?” Wagner said.
SUTER said that the MMR vaccine is not surprised to be subject to information messaging. Reliable research The vaccine was false to autism.
“The MMR vaccine was the first modern vaccine aimed at this kind of information that actually questioned safety,” she said.
Surter said that opposition to the vaccine before the epidemic, which pushed for distrust of the Covid-19 vaccine, still contains a left-wing party point of view, including a “crispy” mother. However, the vaccine hesitation is now rooted in a wide range of topics of disbelief of civil servants and health care systems.
“Now, I’m not a right -wing code, but it’s much more integrated into right -wing politics than ever before,” she said.
Edwards said Kennedy opened a messaging vacuum cleaner for measles and MMR vaccines filled with groups like CHD. Edwards explained that when he asked at the end of February about the increase in measles in Texas at the end of February, such a onset was “not abnormal.” Doctors challenged quickly. Kennedy said later Inside and on-ED The decision to be vaccinated is a “personal” for parents. This is a frame that Edwardes does not agree.
“At this point, there was a powerful message that I had to be vaccinated, and there must be a powerful message to prevent the disease.” “It was actually confusing that Kennedy’s lack of uncertainty and clarity regarding what others said and what others said. This made it appropriate for the family to not be vaccinated.”
