Some experts question RFK Jr. calling measles outbreak 'not unusual'

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Source: ABC News

February 27, 2025, 6:16 PM


In his first public comments on the measles outbreak hitting West Texas and New Mexico, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine skeptic whose first steps in combatting the outbreak will be closely watched, said his department was monitoring the situation daily but called it "not unusual."

"Incidentally, there have been four measles outbreaks this year in this country. Last year there were 16. So, it's not unusual, we have measles outbreaks every year," Kennedy said Wednesday at the White House. However, some public health experts were quick to point out that the outbreak in Texas has defied America's recent history with thhighly contagiousus disease.

Prior to this outbreak, the U.S. had not seen a death from measles since 2015. And in 2000, years after the U.S. implemented a two-dose vaccine schedule, measles was declared eliminated from the U.S., meaning that the disease had stopped spreading within the country. Only in recent years have cases and outbreaks been rising, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico is already drawing close to the halfway mark of total cases seen nationally last year, when there were at least 285 cases of measles – which were also the highest numbers since 2019, according to the CDC's latest figures.

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[Lovie777]

1. So, basically he does not care.....................

[William Seger]

3. He obviously doesn't care that it's becoming 'not unusual' BECAUSE of anti-vax idiots like himself

[JT45242]

2. Not unusual moving forward....

All of the basically eradicated diseases will have outbreaks and deaths ... movong forward under his watch.

Iron lungs, kids in wheel chairs ...polio.

Measles, mumps, chicken pox, rubella and it's horrible effects on pregnant women and their unborn children, tetanus, diphtheria, we will be the world leader in them all.

HPV and cervical cancer. Meningitis. Hepatitis.

Flu outbreak. Covid surges.

We will have YUGE numbers of all them.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes back to the dark ages, when death, disease, pestilence were normal.

[RockCreek]

5. "Some experts" and "question" are so clearly MSM

Actual experts KNOW that this outbreak is unusual.

[JohnSJ]

6. He is an ignorant man who falsely portrays himself as a "scientist". He is NOT, and never has been. There are a lot of

"self=important" people having an exaggerated sense of their own value or importance. Right wing radio and new's outlets are filled with them.

These are false prophets are scammers, and through social media platforms freely spread their false "gospel" to the vulnerable, uneducated people.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. It'll be okay. The CDC will be ordered to stop tracking cases and deaths.

Then you won't know and can rely on RFK Jr. for information.

[3catwoman3]

11. I' sure we al remember Trump suggesting that we stop COVID testing...

...anf then the number of cases would go down.


Fucking imbecile.

[Linda ladeewolf]

8. It wasn't unusual

In the 1960s! Half my grade school class had them at the same time. We had to have doctors notes to get back into class. Same with chicken pox and mumps. Vaccines stopped that.

[Martin68]

9. No MAGAt Republican is a "free speech absolutist." They are only in favor of free speech for MAGAts. Just like Musk.

[malthaussen]

10. "Some" experts? Oh, I guess it's unclear, then.

Come on, ABC. Next you'll be telling us that it's "controversial" that the sun rises in the east.

-- Mal

[Karasu]

12. I hate, hate, HATE whenever the MSM do this mealy-mouthed "some" crap. They do it all the fucking time in order to

legitimize uninformed points of view and look "fair" to "both sides." Especially regarding stuff that is quantifiable, not subjective, and not fucking open to debate or interpretation. Anyone who believes otherwise on a scientific issue like this is NOT an expert. And they know that.

I can't remember the last time I saw anyone in our media use the words "most", "all," or "virtually all", which is almost always the case when they choose to use the word "some." Those words scare the ever-loving shit out of them, because heaven forbid they risk coming off as offensive to all the dumbfucks who choose not to believe in facts. Most of whom still think the MSM is "liberal" anyhow.

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13. Kick