RFK JR. Mixed on measles outbreaks attract criticism from health officials

like The measles outbreak All over the United States has emerged this winter. Pediatricians waited for the country’s public health agency to send a routine, but important, determining how it could help stop the spread of the disease.

It was not until last week – after the number of cases grew to more than 700, and another young child died in Texas due to measles infection – that the centers of control and prevention control recently released their correspondence.

Delaying that message may seem simple. But it is one in a series of errors that more than dozens of doctors, nurses and public health officials have been interviewed by the Associated Press that I identified in the Trump administration’s response to the outbreak.

Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Junior The efforts made to contain an epidemic in a coherent religious society in West Texas are inconsistent with the general health strategies in force spread to end the previous epidemics.

“What we lack now is a strong, clear voice – from federalism to the state to the local – saying the vaccine is the only thing that will prevent measles,” said Patricia Stinsterilde, a nurse and an expert in infectious diseases that helped stop the outbreak of measles for the year 2017 in the Somali Minnesota community.

A “very unusual” approach in the outbreak

Behind the scenes, Kennedy has not been personally informed of the outbreak of infectious diseases at the center of diseases control at least until March 21, according to Kevin Griffis, a professional employee as a member of the agency’s communications until he resigned from that day.

Even after she claimed measles The first victim of the young Texas Griffis said that in late February, Kennedy was not acquainted by the employees of the Disease Control Center. His account was confirmed by the former Federal Health official, who resigned at the end of February.

A Kennedy spokesman did not answer specific written questions about how to inform him or his contacts with the employees of the Disease Control Center.

The spokesperson said that the Disease Control Center activated its headquarters in Atlanta in early February to provide comprehensive guidelines on the strategy of measles and vaccination test. A team was deployed on the ground in West Texas throughout March and was withdrawn on April 1.

CDC spokesman Jason McDonald said it was a “joint decision” between government officials and federal officials was to send the team to the home. Another team was sent from seven to the area this week.

In previous departments, health secretaries held weekly surroundings with the employees of the Disease Control Center, which lasts between 25 and 30 minutes, during the outbreak of infectious diseases. Instead, Kennedy said, he received updates on paper or via email.

“This is very unusual,” said Griffis, who sat in such surroundings with the former Minister of Health and said that nothing was detained for Kennedy during his first month. “I haven’t seen that before.”

In other violations, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the largest network of pediatricians in the country, has not been used to work with the center of disease control over the disease, according to the officials of the organization. Historically, the Center for Disease Control and AAP held monthly or every weekly surroundings during the outbreak of the disease to share updates, which include details about what doctors see and the questions they ask from parents in the exam rooms. Officials spoke on the condition that his identity is not disclosed to discuss the Ministry of Health’s response freely.

The only updates that were presented on a large scale to pediatricians by the Disease Control Center came from the update of a health alert network sent on March 7, a week after the death of the first American measles in a decade, and the message that was sent to service providers last week, which, according to the officials of the Children’s Academy, was late in the outbreak of the disease.

Kennedy praised the Center for Disease Control on Tuesday during an event in Indianapolis, saying that he “did a very good job to control the outbreak of measles.”

Kennedy supports vaccines, but he still raises safety doubts

Experts say that Kennedy’s unexplained and unclear message about measles vaccines has made it difficult to contain.

He sometimes supported measles, mumps, and a pill vaccine as “effective”, but it also continues to raise safety concerns about the shots in other data. In an interview with CBS last week, he claimed that the vaccines “were not tested.”

Dr. Carlos del Rio, president of the infectious American Association of America, said this approach was the biggest defect in the government’s response.

Del Rio said: “Imagine if the captain of the Titanic team told you that you need to be careful to survive boats and think about other opportunities.”

Experiments were conducted on thousands of children before agreeing to the vaccine for use in the 1960s. The federal government has since used medical records to continue monitoring the side effects of use in millions of people since then.

Dr. Ann Shuchhat, a former deputy director at the Disease Control Center, who retired 33 years later at the agency in 2021, said that health secretaries have usually provided a clear message urging the public to obtain vaccination during the disease outbreak.

President Donald Trump and his first health secretary, Alex Azar, urged people to get shots during news conferences in 2019, when measles erupted through Brooklyn and wounded more than 1,200 across the country.

“You do not necessarily need the Minister of Health to attend a funeral, well, but you do not want to get mixed messages on vaccines,” Shuchhat said. “A person in a federal building in Washington can harm a lot of the way they send.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is also calm on vaccines

Local leaders have left largely on their own to urge the public to take vaccines.

Texas Greg Abbott, a Republican, did not urge the audience to obtain vaccination as well. No news conferences were held about the outbreak of fascism and published only once on social media about measles since January. Any data was left about diseases, which also put 56 people in the hospital at some point, for his assistants.

Abbott’s office did not answer questions about his response to the disease.

Conservatives responded in other states more strongly to the number of increased measles. Hawaiian governor Josh Green, a democratic and doctor, issued news on the first page last week after urged Hawaiian residents to take vaccines when the state recorded the first measles case in one year.

A week before a crowded travel week for the Easter holiday, the governor of Nebraska Jim Bellin, a Republican, invited an unambiguous manner to vaccinate themselves and their children. There are no known measles in Nebraska, but the outbreak of the disease is active in the neighboring Kansas.

“If you are not vaccinated, you will get measles,” Bellen said last week.

These types of phrases are important to the public to hear leaders who say from the top to the bottom.

Barbut worked with local rabbis, as well as doctors and nurses in the Jewish community, to send messages that encourage the absorption of the vaccine. Trump and Azar’s calls, who urged the audience to vaccinate, helped to raise the case as well.

When national leaders distance from that message, she said that she “begins to erode the effectiveness of people trying to transfer these messages at the local level.”