With the face of the United States The largest separate measles outbreak During 25 years, the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services Robert F. will make. Kennedy Junior by directing federal health agencies to explore possible new treatments for the disease, including vitamins, according to an HHS spokesman. The decision is the latest in a A series of procedures Through senior health officials in the country, experts fear will undermine the public’s confidence in vaccines as a basic tool for public health.
This advertisement comes at a time when Mr. Kennedy faces a severe violent reaction to deal with him with the outbreak. It has swept large areas of southwest where vaccination rates are low, hundreds of hundreds and kill two small girls. On Friday, the centers of control and prevention of diseases have reported more than 930 cases across the country, most of which are linked to the spread of the southwest.
Critics said that Mr. Kennedy focused a lot on Unpaid treatments – Like cod liver oil supplements – only offered Support for The measles vaccine, which shows studies is 97 percent effective in preventing infection.
The decision to put more resources in potential treatments can be, instead of urging vaccination, can have severe consequences in the center of eruption.
“We do not want to send the indication that you do not have to obtain vaccination because there is just a way to get rid of it,” said Jennifer Nuzu, an epidemic scientist at the College of Public Health at the University of Brown.
Scientists have already studied many vitamins and medicines as possible treatments for Michael Ostohm, an epidemic scientist at Minnesota University, said measles.
Research contracts have not shown any miracle treatment for measles virus, which can cause pneumonia, making it difficult for patients to obtain oxygen in their lungs, and Brain swellingWhich can cause blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities.
“There is no shortage of studies,” he said.
“Supporting care” is usually provided to patients to help make them more comfortable while the virus runs its path, such as Tilanol to drop their fever, additional oxygen and fourth fluids.
Andrew Nixon said the decision to search for new treatments is to help people who chose not to vaccinate. He added that the Center for Disease Control is still recommending measles, mumps and measles as a more effective way to prevent measles.
But he said: “Our commitment is to support all families, regardless of the vaccination, in reducing the risk of hospitalization, serious complications and death from measles.”
An example of this society, Mr. Kennedy He referred to Mennonites In West Texas, who have He suffered from absurdity Of cases and hospitalization in the current outbreak.
Mr. Nixon said that the Center for Disease Control will cooperate with universities to test new treatments for “a group of diseases”, which may include a group of existing drugs and vitamins. The news of this effort was reported for the first time CBS news.
Public health experts were confusing Mr. Kennedy’s decision to search for new treatments, instead of supporting footage that had contracts for safety and effectiveness. They said this seems to be contradictory Focus on preventing diseases Instead of treatment.
“This is closer to saying:” go ahead and eat what you want, do not exercise, smoke like chimneys – we will invest all our resources in heart transplants, “said Dr. Jonathan Timti, the former head of the Consultative Committee for the Customs at the Disease Control Center.
Over the course of the current measles, Mr. Kennedy presented an inconsistent, and sometimes contradictory, a correspondent about the mmr shot. At some points, the vaccine was described as “the most effective way to prevent measles spread.”
At other times, he has Thank you for her safety“We don’t know the risks of many of these products because they were not tested for safety,” he said in an interview with CBS News last month.
Doctors in West Texas said that Mr. Kennedy’s focus is on treatments, instead of vaccines, making their jobs really difficult.
Early Fox News Erupted that he heard about “almost miracle and immediate recovery” with treatments such as cod liver oil, which he said was “the most vitamin A” applications.
While doctors sometimes run high doses of vitamin A in the hospital to manage severe measles, experts do not recommend taking them without the supervision of a doctor.
Soon after, the doctors said they faced the measles patients who had Delayed medical treatment In favor of staying at home and treating themselves with some nutritional supplements that Mr. Kennedy promoted. Some children with measles were given Toxic levels of vitamin AThey said.
Dr. Ostolem said that Mr. Kennedy’s plan also assumed that people’s beliefs about vaccines had been reformed, in fact, encouraged clear information about their goal and safety thousands of vaccines in the outbreak of the past.
Despite Mr. Kennedy’s claims that Menonians have “religious objections” to the shots because they contain “the wreckage of the fetus”, historians who study society say he does not have a religious doctrine that prohibits vaccination, and vaccine experts say that there is no fetus tissue in the MMR shot.
Instead, local doctors pointed to misleading information about the safety of the shot – which helped Mr. Kennedy to perpetuate – because the main reason for choosing their patients in Minunite from vaccination.
