Summary

Texas hospitals are treating children with vitamin A poisoning linked to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promotion of the supplement as a measles treatment.

At Covenant Children’s hospital in Lubbock, patients with measles showed abnormal liver function due to excessive vitamin A intake.

Kennedy, the U.S. health secretary, claimed vitamin A dramatically reduces measles mortality. Experts warn his messaging confuses parents and downplays the proven protection of the MMR vaccine.

The U.S. faces its worst measles outbreak in decades, with nearly 500 cases across 21 states and two confirmed deaths.

  • sfu@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    So to everyone who down voted my comment… I take it you would like to be forced to take something you didn’t want to take?

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Yes. I would 100% enjoy mandatory vaccinations when those vaccines are standardized, well regulated, and proven to save countless lives. I want to be forced to take the shot, I want the person to my right to be forced, I want the person to my left to be forced.

      I want to save people from horrible death and lifelong disability. I want to eradicate diseases.

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        9 days ago

        You know there have been bad vaccines in the past that were given to people right? You know the drug companies sometimes lie about studies right? For instance, did you know that when people were being tested with the covid-19 vaccine, and they died during the trial, Pfizer removed them from the results? Don’t you think that should have been included?

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          9 days ago

          There have been and there will be. And there have been reports of adverse side effects. We study these cases in depth. You’re worse off without the vaccine by a massive margin. Society is worse off.

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            8 days ago

            Ok, I just disagree. I’m not pro or anti vaccine, I just think people shouldn’t be forced to take drugs if they don’t feel safe doing so.

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              8 days ago

              One thing you mentioned is that studies lie. Academic Studies are the first and foremost most reliable source of information on this earth, your distrust of them is basically an admission that you prefer comforting lies.

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                8 days ago

                I mentioned before (maybe not to you), when Pfizer was doing trials of the covid19 vac, there were a number of people who died. Pfizer did not include them in the results. That is an example of a study that included lies.

                I have a family member with many medical issues, and I read a lot of studies on various treatments for different issues. I’ve had doctors flat out lie to our faces about a drugs effectiveness, and after telling then what we know about it, they agree with us and say they think we should use it anyway. Basically admitting they weren’t being honest with us about the drug.

                Some drugs have been studied in other countries other than my own, and have been shown to be 100% ineffective as a treatment for a particular condition. But the insurance company and doctors still push it, and when confronted with the studies, say that those studies aren’t recognized here because they weren’t conducted in my country.

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                  8 days ago

                  Literally everyone will die after taking the vaccine, be it one day or a hundred years later. Nobody has ever died from the vaccine. We’ve studied this, there is no potential way for a person to die from being injected with a target antigen.

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                    8 days ago

                    Doesn’t matter if you are right or if you are wrong. A good, honest study includes all participants, and everything medically that happened to them.

    • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca
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      9 days ago

      If the thing has been proven time and time again to be a benefit for the entire society?

      Yes.

      Only someone clearly deranged and selfish would choose otherwise.