Make America Healthy Again - Trump populism comes to health regulation (1 Viewer)

[superchuck500]

This is going to need a thread as we move forward - there are now clear signs that Trump supports a new, critical if not dubious approach on vaccination, and his HHS nominee RFK Jr. regularly espouses eating raw milk and raw meat . . . dietary components most experts agree are more dangerous than their heated counterparts.

Health is certainly one of those areas were anti-institutionalism and turning to popular influencers over medical science comes with genuine risk of harm.

Today Trump provided his most clear indication that he is a vaccine skeptic - claiming (falsely of course) that the USA doesn't "do as well" as other nations that use no vaccines at all.

 

[superchuck500]

Dr. Oz's confirmation hearing (to be head of CMS - which administers medicaid and medicare).

 

[MT15]

Well, this is alarming.

“On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles.

By that time, other new moms, newborn babies and their families at University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock had unknowingly been exposed to the virus, considered one of the most contagious in the world.”

Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital — NBC News

Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.

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[MT15]

They can give the newborns IG shots to help protect them, as the outbreak now spreads to the third state. It’s early March, and we have more cases in this one outbreak than all of 2024.

“The outbreak expanded this week from Texas and New Mexico into Oklahoma, where two cases were confirmed. New Mexico has reported 35 cases.

West Texas remains the epicenter of the outbreak that began last month. On Friday, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported 259 measles cases. Most (201) have been in kids and teenagers.

One child, a 6-year-old girl in Gaines County, Texas, died. Another death in an adult in New Mexico is under investigation. Neither had been vaccinated against measles.

Altogether, the current number of cases has exceeded the total reported in 2024.

Curry, who’s administered several immunoglobulin shots to newborns in recent days, stressed that those babies will need to be vaccinated when they’re old enough.

“This is only good for a small, short period of time,” he said. “They still need to be vaccinated. That is the only total protection.””