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.
If you were a good parent, you’d read up on what the risks were for vaccinations vs catching the disease and realize that even the worst performing vaccines are 300+ times less dangerous than an infection, instead of relying on Jenny McCarthy’s fucking Facebook posts as a source of medical information.
Correct, you would do your research. And if you did your research and came to the conclusion that a particular vaccine (not thinking of any in particular) was not safe for a child to take, would you be a good parent if you did it anyway just because a lot of other people are?