Schumer demands RFK Jr. declare measles emergency, saying he ‘walked’ US into outbreak
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded the Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. By removing public health and accusing him of fueling the outbreak by dismantling the trust in vaccines, declare an emergency on the countrywide cases of weak measles.
Schumer, on July 11, “As a secretary, you’ve weakened vaccines under guardianship, broke public health financing, and dismantled the basic federal guards to keep Americans safe.” letter.
“You have entered our country in the country’s greatest measles in 33 years.”
Measles cases, especially unaccred with
A quarterly century after the elimination of measles in the United States, cases exploded this year and reached 1,288 approved cases in 39 states. Disease Control and Prevention Centers. Three people died this year. Authorities say that almost nine of cases spread to New Mexico and Texas, the location of a community of mennonity, which became the first center of epidemic in the early this year.
Most cases -65% -19 years old and smaller people, and the vast majority -92% are not vaccinated.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired 17 members of the vaccination panel and replaced them with some vaccine skeptics.
The epidemic directed a healthcare expert Kennedy to the skepticism of vaccine and to the unfounded claims that the vaccines were dangerous and ineffective. Kennedy, the measles vaccine weakened over time – a claim discussed by scientists – and to address the epidemic, “we can not only trust the vaccine,” he said.
He’s also underestimated The measles epidemic should focus more on chronic diseases such as diabetes and autism.
Kennedy in May directed Find a new “scientific process” to treat CDC, measles and other diseases with drugs and vitamins. Although vaccines are still proposed as the best way to prevent the disease, some can “chose vaccination”.
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Kennedy fired 17 members of a vaccination consultancy last month and filled with some vaccine skeptics that explained the first priority.
The harsh interruptions of Kennedy’s department programs and the cutting of thousands of workers in the department created anger from alarm and democratic deputies from public health experts. In April, Kennedy said that in April, he would fire 10,000 health and human services employees as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the federal labor force.
Since then, the department has faced numerous legal difficulties that have reduced Covid vaccine from the best medical institutions on Kennedy from the list of shots for children and pregnant women.
Schumer is the last democrat in Capitol Hill, who recently went to Upbraid Kennedy on the measles epidemic.
“We have a record -breed cases in the United States,” he wrote Patty Murray, Kennedy accused Kennedy of filling the vaccine panel with “delicious vaccine skeptics”.
“Where is our public hearing about this crisis?”
The measles vaccine is 97% effective in the prevention of the disease when applied at two doses. Hkm.
Since the beginning of Covid Pandemi, when vaccinations have increased, online conspiracies and insecurity to public health institutions, measles vaccinations fell nationwide.
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