RFK Jr. visits family of child who died because they followed his bullshit conspiracy theories

And immediately started spreading them again after some pro forma acknowledgement of vaccines issued under his name:

A second child has died of measles amid an outbreak in West Texas, prompting Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to meet with the family of the deceased 8-year-old girl in Gaines County, where most of the cases have clustered.

The child, who had been receiving treatment for complications of measles, died at the University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, spokesman Aaron Davis said in a statement to The Washington Post on Sunday. The child had no known underlying health conditions and was not vaccinated against measles, Davis said.

“This unfortunate event underscores the importance of vaccination,” Davis said.

Kennedy said on X on Sunday that he visited Gaines County “to comfort” the family of the child, whom he identified as Daisy. He said he was also there to learn how the Department of Health and Human Services can help control the outbreak.

“The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine,” Kennedy said, referring to the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

Kennedy, one of the country’s most prominent critics of childhood vaccination, has been criticized for conveying more pro-vaccine public health positions in prepared remarks than in his long-form interviews. In the latter, Kennedy has touted therapeutic treatments using vitamin A and cortisone-like steroids to combat measles, contradicting guidance from infectious diseases experts.

Hours after his pro-vaccine post, Kennedy followed up with photos of his visit to Texas, including with two doctors he described as “extraordinary healers” who used the steroids and an antibiotic that infectious diseases specialists say are not recommended measles treatments.

Ben Edwards, one of the doctors Kennedy praised, has criticized measles vaccination and released a podcast earlier in the outbreak describing mass infection as “God’s version of measles immunization.” Richard Bartlett, the other, has inaccurately touted the steroid treatment as a cure for covid-19 and was disciplined by Texas medical regulators in 2003 for inappropriate use of antibacterial and steroid treatments.

“Most contemptible member of the Trump cabinet” is an impossible question but it’s hard not to lean in his direction.

This is like O.J. attending Nicole’s funeral (which he did, and for the same reason).

[image or embed]— Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) April 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Then there’s this guy:

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), a medical doctor who voted to confirm Kennedy to lead HHS but who has asked him to stop linking vaccines to autism, called Sundayfor more overt support for measles vaccinations.

“Everyone should be vaccinated!” Cassidy wrote on X. “There is no treatment for measles. No benefit to getting measles. Top health officials should say so unequivocally [before] another child dies.”

You voted for him! He is what he is, he’s not changing, and you’re 100% responsible for everything he does.