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Remembering How Robert F Kennedy, Jr Wakefielded Samoa and Contributed to their Measles Epidemic

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Do you remember how Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Wakefielded Samoa and contributed to their measles epidemic?

Many people think that Kennedy Wakefielded Samoa and contributed to their measles epidemic.
Many people think that Kennedy Wakefielded Samoa and contributed to their measles epidemic.

Apparently he doesn’t either…

Remembering How Robert F Kennedy, Jr Wakefielded Samoa and Contributed to their Measles Epidemic

Of course, that doesn’t mean that he didn’t do it…

Remember, after two children tragically died after a mixup between the diluent for the MMR vaccine and a powerful anesthetic, vaccination rates on Samoa dropped.

“In the wake of the infant deaths, Mr Kennedy’s organisation ran social media posts questioning the safety of vaccines and did not update them when the true cause came to light.”

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In addition to parents being scared to vaccinate their kids, the drop was mostly because they had actually stopped giving MMR vaccines in Samoa for about nine months!

A ban that was likely motivated over the Prime Minister’s fears that the MMR vaccine was associated with autism.

“Most notably, the deaths were picked up by the Children’s Health Defense, run by the prominent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As The Washington Post noted, Kennedy’s organization spent months highlighting the deaths on Facebook while questioning the safety of the MMR vaccines. But the organization did not correct the posts or update its audience with information regarding the nurses’ error and convictions.”

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Now who gave him that idea?!?

Many people think that Kennedy Wakefielded Samoa and contributed to their measles epidemic.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr visited Samoa with Cheryl Hines and Taylor Winterstein about four months before their measles epidemic started. Edwin Tamasese was no hero though. He convinced folks to take vitamin A instead of the MMR vaccine, a vaccine that stopped the epidemic that was hardly mild – 83 people died!

And that’s when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr thought it would be a good time to visit Samoa, once MMR vaccinations restarted and as they were trying to rebuild confidence in their MMR vaccine program.

Rebuilding vaccine confidence wasn’t easy though, and predictably, the measles epidemic started in Samoa about four months later.

Next, once the epidemic had started, Kennedy wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Samoa, making every effort to blame measles cases on a defective MMR vaccine, mutant measles strains, and vaccine strain measles.

“There is also the possibility that children who received the live measles virus during Samoa’s recent vaccination drive may have shed the virus and inadvertently infected vulnerable children. It is a regrettable possibility that these children are causalities of Merck’s vaccine.”

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

A letter filled with misinformation and anti-vaccine talking points refuted a thousand times.

Not surprisingly, as more and more kids died with measles, anti-vaccine influencers found fewer and fewer people in Samoa to listen to their anti-vaccine propaganda.

Instead, most folks got vaccinated and protected and the epidemic was stopped!

Remembering the Measles Epidemic on Samoa

The measles epidemic on Samoa, in which 83 people died, should have been a wake up call for the world.

Bob Sears warned us what would happen if too many people listened to anti-vaccine influencers.
Bob Sears warned us what would happen if too many people listened to anti-vaccine influencers. It may have been the only thing he was right about…

It’s a tragic example of what we had been long warning about – the fatal flaw in the anti-vaccine movement – when vaccination rates drop, vaccine preventable diseases will quickly return, and people get sick and die.

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Last Updated on July 17, 2024