Junior issued a statement today professing support for Texas’s response to the measles outbreak, including providing additional vaccines. He did not say anything about recommending the unvaccinated get the MMR as soon as possible, which is what will stop this outbreak and prevent future ones.
Junior also says the CDC website has been updated to include guidance to physicians about administering vitamin A on an outpatient basis. That would make sense if the U.S. was a Third World country where vitamin A deficiency was common and giving it to kids would lessen measles’ severity. But that’s not the case.
I did see a video a few days ago featuring DJT v. 2.0 hunting marmots, in either Kazakhstan or Mongolia, and at least he ate it instead of leaving it as a “trophy.” My point here is that marmots are known bubonic plague carriers. I can’t find it now.
The Trump Administration clown car has disgorged another candidate to lead American health out of its dreadful, science-infused condition. David Geier has been tapped by RFK Jr. to head up an yet another study of whether vaccines cause autism.
David (who was previously charged in Maryland with practicing medicine without a license) and his father Mark (who lost his medical license in a number of states) have been involved in operating a chain of clinics in which autistic boys were subject to chemical castration therapy with the drug Lupron. Apparently quite profitable, but not science-based.
The father-son Geier team, which previously ran a, um, top-class kitchen laboratory out of their home for scientific purposes, has also had at least one research publication retracted.
It’s hard to imagine picking anyone worse than David Geier to head up a a vaccine-autism study, as if another one was needed in the first place. It represents a massive thumb on the scales.
Speaking of thumbs, it’s thumbs down to the Washington Post for referring to David Geier as a “vaccine skeptic”. He’s a full-on antivaxer.
Do vaccines cause autism? Well the federal government is going to do another study and guess who is going to lead the study?
Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism
A vaccine skeptic who has long promoted false claims about the connection between immunizations and autism has been tapped by the federal government to conduct a critical study of possible links between the two, according to current and former federal health officials.
The Department of Health and Human Services has hired David Geier to conduct the analysis, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Geier and his father, Mark Geier, have published papers claiming vaccines increase the risk of autism, a theory that has been studied for decades and scientifically debunked.
David Geier was disciplined by Maryland regulators more than a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license.
Vitamin A is not a measles preventive! It CAN reduce the severity of some of the symptoms in the first few days of the illness, in carefully controlled doses.
This patient, who was vaccinated, flew into Reagan National Airport from Minnesota, but was not contagious at that time, per the Washington Post. Health officials warned of possible exposures on the Amtrak Northeast Regional 175 southbound train and at the Amtrak Concourse at Union Station on the evening of March 19 and at MedStar Health Urgent Care at Adams Morgan on Saturday evening.
You can be contagious without having serious symptoms, so pretty likely this guy wasn’t too worried (because he’s vaccinated), travelled by train on the 19th, then found out he had measles at that clinic on the 22nd.