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.
Why are these people ok with isolated vitamin supplements (which are not natural), but not ok with a vaccine? I don’t understand the line they draw.
“I don’t know what’s in the vaccine” is the dumbest excuse too. The information is available, and if you don’t trust the information, why would trust the label that tells you those pills are vitamin A. They could put anything in that pill with Vitamin A.
Because they are operating on propaganda, not logic.
Because opinion is more important than fact, and choice is more important than logic.
They’re contrarians and conspiracists. They will go with whatever the established authorities recommend against.