And the 530,000 cases are the ones reported and confirmed. I can guarantee you that all the cases in my small town when it was going around were not reported in the 1960s.
So there are probably 10 times that number of actual infections.
He says virtually every child contracted it prior to the vaccine - that’s 10s of millions annually, with 440 confirmed fatalities.
What is missing from that statement but inferred, is the fact that prior to the vaccine, hardly anyone went to the doctor for measles - that included me (born 1952) and my contemporaries.. getting measles was a normal thing.. parents and town doctors knew it was highly contagious - and then you were immune for life.
What they did was have “measles parties” so everyone’s kids would purposely catch it at once - on the advice of family doctors - more controlled that way - exactly like getting a vaccine. You could say it WAS a vaccine except Big Pharma didn’t exist yet to exploit it.
Anyway - the big takeaway from this RFK statement (besides the obvious connection to the border) is that he is pro vaccine when it comes to measles - so all the Democrats who calmed him anti-vax are now proven liars.