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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: Second pediatric measles death in Texas
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 09:59:22 -0500
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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/second-measles-death-texas-child-kennedy-rcna199882

A second child has died, likely from measles infection.  They aren't 
saying if the child had been vaccinated.  The issue is, that if more 
people had been vaccinated when they should have been vaccinated, fewer 
children too young to have been fully vaccinated would be getting 
infected.  1 to 3 per thousand infected children usually die of the 
infection.  Two doses of the vaccine is supposed to be 97% effective 
against infection.  Over 600 confirmed cases are claimed to be an 
underestimate because a lot of the infected are refusing to be tested. 
Apparently a significant fraction of the population of the region of 
Texas were vaccine resistors.  The three probable deaths (two children 
and one adult) in this epidemic are the first deaths in the US from 
measles in over a decade.

Kennedy is going to attend the funeral for the child, but that isn't any 
absolution for his anti-vaccination stupidity that likely contributed to 
the kids death.

One can only hope that the guy that is now responsible for Health and 
welfare of the nation can be reasoned with and change the stupid 
anti-science stupidity of his past.  He is currently recommending 
vaccination against measles for this outbreak, but is claimed to have 
been anti-measles vaccination for nearly 2 decades.  Why is he going to 
attend the funeral?  Is he going to claim that the kid was a hero for 
taking one for the Team?

Ron Okimoto