Children in Lubbock, Texas were admitted to the hospital with liver damage. Not from measles. From vitamin A toxicity…

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Children in Texas were hospitalized with vitamin A toxicity after parents followed RFK Jr.'s advice to treat measles with cod liver oil instead of vaccination. This mirrors a 2019 Samoa campaign by RFK Jr. that preceded a deadly measles outbreak killing 83 people, and the U.S. is now facing record measles cases with deaths and threatens to lose elimination status.

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Children in Lubbock, Texas were admitted to the hospital with liver damage. Not from measles. From vitamin A toxicity — because their parents followed RFK Jr.’s advice and gave them cod liver oil to treat measles. He is the sitting U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. This is not the first time this has happened. In 2019, RFK Jr. traveled to Samoa and ran the same anti-vaccine campaign. Vaccination rates dropped to 31%. Five months later: 5,700 cases. 83 dead. Most of them children under 4. He called it a “natural experiment.” The Senate confirmed him as HHS Secretary anyway. yahoo.com/news/after-rfk… 🧵1/3
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Doctors were unambiguous: cod liver oil is not advised for measles. To reach even the recommended vitamin A dosage, a child would need to consume a potentially dangerous amount. “It’s not a reasonable suggestion,” one expert said. “It’s damaging because it’s misleading, and I would argue it’s harmful.” There is no treatment for measles. There is a vaccine. The current toll is 1,671 confirmed U.S. cases as of April 2 — across 33 states. Three deaths in 2025. Two of them children. The U.S. is now on the verge of losing its measles elimination status for the first time since 2000. 92% of patients were unvaccinated or have unknown vaccine status. 2/3
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A 1% drop in childhood MMR vaccination rates produces 17,000 cases, 4,000 hospitalizations, and 36 preventable deaths per year. RFK Jr. has spent decades engineering exactly that drop — in Samoa, on Fox News, and now from inside the Department of Health and Human Services. We are watching that math play out in real time. 3/3