Anti-vax Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thinks we can more effectively prevent measles outbreaks by giving our kids high doses of vitamin A than we can with vaccines.
Turns out, giving kids high doses of vitamin A can kill them.
“When it comes to taking any medicine or supplement, including vitamins, more is not necessarily better,” said Christopher Holstege, MD, medical director of the UVA Health Blue Ridge Poison Center.
Yeah, yeah, I know, he’s a doctor who went to medical school, so you can’t trust him more than you can trust doing your own research on your phone sitting on the toilet.
That’s how our country went from seeing measles declared eliminated in the U.S. way back in 2000 due to the widespread utilization of vaccines to where we are today, with an outbreak of measles cases now confirmed in 19 states, with what’s left of the CDC reporting that 97 percent of the cases being in people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.
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RFK Jr., who, again, is the guy that we somehow put in charge of our federal government’s Health and Human Services department, his appointment being based on his background of embracing and amplifying junk science, thinks the real issue with measles is poor diet, and that vitamin A can “dramatically reduce measles mortality.”
Problem there being, the message getting through to anti-vax parents is, if a little vitamin A can protect little McKenzie or little Sage from getting the measles, wait until I give the young’un a heaping helping.
Liver damage is one side effect of a heaping helping of vitamin A; death is another.
What you might have missed in your sitting-on-the-toilet research is that because vitamin A is fat-soluble, the body stores excess amounts of it, because it can’t easily break it down.
Meaning, if too much vitamin A is stored, it can become toxic.
Poison centers across the United States typically receive 400 to 500 calls per year related to vitamin A, and the Blue Ridge Poison Center is concerned that figure may increase this year.
“Unless a person has a diagnosed deficiency, or some other health condition, and a health professional has advised the extra supplement and is monitoring their care, taking doses of vitamins greater than the recommended daily amount can be harmful,” Holstege said.
But he’s just a doctor; what would he know that you don’t already from sitting on the toilet?
Before the measles vaccine was developed in 1963, 3 to 4 million people a year contracted the virus each year, with 48,000 hospitalizations and 500 deaths annually, and nearly every child in America contracted measles by age 15.
Now, thanks to the anti-vaxxers who think that autism didn’t exist before vaccines, and the likes of RFK Jr. and Joe Rogan who have figured out how to monetize their willful stupidity, we are where we are.
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