Jessica McDonald
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In the midst of a growing measles outbreak in Texas that has killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly focused on vitamin A, including from cod liver oil, and two non-standard medications as treatments for measles.
Vitamin A is recommended around the world for measles because there is evidence it can help if someone is deficient, but the benefit to patients in the U.S. is unclear. Cod liver oil, which contains vitamin A, isn’t advised at all for measles — and would need to be consumed in a...
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