A fast-moving measles outbreak in South Carolina highlights how declining vaccination rates, permissive state laws and weakened federal vaccine oversight are creating larger, harder-to-control outbreaks across the U.S. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/09/world/us-measles-milestone-is-everyones-problem/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #robertfkennedyjr #donaldtrump #medicine #vaccinations #health #measles #covid19 #cdc #us #southcarolina #donaldtrump
@etchedpixels Nope, needs to be a name riffing on a Christian devil, for maximum offense. Also needs to knock his carefully contrived Appalachian/"poor white trash" imposture (hence "bubba").
Unfortunately, Robert F. Astaroth Jr, Prince of Health and Human Services, has taken one of the demon names.
JD Beliar?
Upheaval under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is weakening U.S. public health by fueling disease outbreaks, undermining vaccinations and threatening insurance coverage and drug approvals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/05/world/americas-year-of-health-care-chaos/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #robertfkennedyjr #donaldtrump #medicine #vaccinations #health #covid19 #cdc #us #misinformation
If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wants more industries to support his plan to eliminate the sugar substitute, people must first understand the schemes that led to this sticky situation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/11/world/americas-corn-syrup-addiction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #richardnixon #robertfkennedyjr #geraldford #jimmycarter #yoshiyukitakasaki #archerdanielsmidlands #jmsmucker #cocacola #cornysyrup #sugar #sovietunion
When the CDC’s panel relies on vaccine deniers over experts and applies an impossibly high standard to evaluate vaccines, it isn’t empowering parents to make better decisions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/11/world/hepatitis-b-vaccine-vote-reverses-progress/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #vaccines #medicine #cdc #donaldtrump #robertfkennedyjr #health #hepatitisb #covid19
An advisory panel appointed by President Donald Trump's vaccine-skeptic health secretary voted Friday to stop recommending that all newborns in the United States receive a hepatitis B vaccine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/06/world/science-health/vaccine-policy-us-shift/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #vaccinations #us #donaldtrump #robertfkennedyjr #health #children #hepatitisb
Even as Canada loses its measles elimination status, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading a campaign that promotes anti-vaccine legislation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/23/world/canada-loses-measles-elimination-fight/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #measles #canada #us #health #vaccinations #medicine #robertfkennedyjr #rfk
U.S. President Donald Trump's autism announcement harks back to his first term, when he gave unscientific advice about how to treat COVID. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/23/world/politics/trump-autism-covid-flashbacks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #covid19 #vaccines #medicine #autism #us #donaldtrump #tylenol #robertfkennedyjr
U.S. President Donald Trump is standing by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary who is upending the U.S. health care system, despite congressional pressure. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/07/world/science-health/trump-kennedy-risks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #donaldtrump #us #robertfkennedyjr #vaccinations #health#covid19
Democratic and Republican senators pushed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a hearing on his recent vaccine policies and their contrast to President Donald Trump's COVID-19 pandemic vaccine initiative. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/05/world/science-health/us-senators-kennedy-vaccine-policy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #us #republicans #robertfkennedyjr #donaldtrump
U.S. President Donald Trump's health policy appears to be taking a softer approach to regulating companies than many had feared. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/16/world/politics/trumps-health-policy-blueprint/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #health #donaldtrump #us #robertfkennedyjr
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s crusade against mRNA vaccine technology will make the next pandemic harder to handle. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/08/rfk-jrs-mrna-decision-is-bad/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #robertfkennedyjr #mrna#covid19 #vaccinations #health #medicine #us
GOP lawmakers will pay dearly — in lives and votes — for not reining in a peddler of junk science and anti-vax conspiracies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/25/world/rfk-jr-making-america-sick-again/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #robertfkennedyjr #health #medicine #republicans #vaccinations #measles #donaldtrump
Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak--and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It
#AIFormulated#RobertFKennedyJr#BioweaponClaim#Misinfo#AntiVax
https://www.wired.com/story/antivax-grift-measles-crisis-bioweapon/