RFK Jr chaos: With kids with measles struggling to breathe, next year’s flu shot is at risk?

BREAKING: An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people. https://t.co/s2YQsPvthI

— ABC News (@ABC) February 26, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a 2021 book wrote that Americans had been "misled … into believing that measles is a deadly disease."

He said measles outbreaks had been "fabricated" to push people towards vaccines. https://t.co/lBXK42mpjj pic.twitter.com/lo7ZA0nv8F

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) February 26, 2025

After the first measles death in a decade—a child—HHS Secretary Kennedy in a cabinet meeting seemed to downplay the Texas outbreak saying outbreaks were "not unusual." He also said the some 18 kids hospitalized were "mainly for quarantine." A pediatrician on the ground said they… https://t.co/2iPT388cgS pic.twitter.com/BHns5myCVv

— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) February 26, 2025

An FDA vaccine advisory committee meeting that was set to discuss what flu strains to include in next season's flu vaccine has been canceled, multiple sources told ABC News. https://t.co/yhmr90b138

— ABC News (@ABC) February 27, 2025

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it.

They did it for PEPFAR.

Now Ebola.

I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL…🧵 https://t.co/J6n3mCXRyZ

— Craig Spencer MD MPH (@Craig_A_Spencer) February 26, 2025

The @AP has obtained the full list of 875 contracts to be cut at the @DeptVetAffairs, lauded by DOGE and now paused for more review. They include: Cancelling a contract that supports disability ratings assessments; a contract to answer 24,000 requests for military records to help…

— Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) February 27, 2025

New: Jeff Bezos announces a change to Washington Post opinion pages in memo to staff: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets … viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others."

— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) February 26, 2025

Nothing says personal liberties and free markets like trade wars and the US Attorney for your locality threatening newspapers that don't use the King's preferred language for a body of water.

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) February 26, 2025

I'm trying to imagine how the right wing media would react if Barack Obama posted a video featuring a giant gold statue of Barack Obama with kids looking up at it in awe. pic.twitter.com/1QHtdhPQrY

— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd on blu sky) (@rothschildmd) February 26, 2025

In an interview a few days ago with QAnon-affiliated podcast SGT Report, AZ state Senator Mark Finchem praised the show's host for "open[ing] your show with the Rothschilds & the banking cartel" because "we are going to return the American government back to the American people." pic.twitter.com/wcFfjA6hoQ

— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) February 26, 2025

Not even an obviously fake pretext here he’s just straight up saying that his punishing the firm for helping his enemy. https://t.co/xVxw2VYbsj

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 26, 2025