Robert F Kennedy Jr Claims Anti-Vax Physicians Healed ‘Some 300 Measles-Stricken Children’

The Guardian ^ | Mon 7 Apr 2025 | Richard Luscombe

[nickcarraway]

US health secretary continues to send mixed messaging about measles outbreak that has claimed at least three lives

Robert F Kennedy Jr followed up his attendance at the Texas funeral of a child who died from measles by praising two unconventional “healers”, one of whom was previously disciplined by the state’s medical board for “unusual use of risk-filled medications”. The US health secretary continued to send mixed messaging over the weekend about the measles outbreak that has now claimed at least three lives, including that of two children – first touting the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine as effective, then extolling the practitioners who have eschewed it in favor of vitamins and cod liver oil.

For years, Kennedy has himself baselessly sowed doubt about vaccine safety and efficacy, and sparked alarm last month when he backed vitamins to treat the illness. At the time, he had stopped short of endorsing the MMR vaccine, which he minimized as merely a “personal choice” rather than a public health and safety measure that long ago was proven effective. In a tweet on Sunday following his presence in Seminole at the funeral of Daisy Hildebrand, an unvaccinated eight-year-old who died on 3 April, Kennedy said he had visited with Richard Bartlett and Ben Edwards – and claimed without evidence the anti-vax physicians had treated and healed “some 300 measles-stricken Mennonite children”.

The Texas Medical Board disciplined Bartlett in 2003 for his “inappropriate treatment of patients with intravenous antibiotics and other medications”. Kennedy’s tweet said Bartlett had used “aerosolized budesonide and clarithromycin” to treat children with measles, two drugs Bartlett reportedly previously claimed were also ingredients in his “magic bullet” treatment for Covid-19.

[Antoninus]

The Guardian is not a reliable news source. If they’re saying something, you can bet the opposite is true.

[Myrddin]

Another hate RFK Jr screed from the Guardian. The two children died from medical malpractice. They had secondary pneumonia following the measles that was not treated. Dying from measles is a splashier headline. I hope there is an inquiry into the failure to treat the pneumonia.

[Nextrush]

The Guardian of the Pharma Industry

They do ask for money when you go to their website to read their stories and the Pharma Industry has cash to spread around.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

My mother healed my measles and my brothers' and sisters' measles.

Aspirin, chicken soup, and Kool-aid.

[nickcarraway]

I think they ask for money, but you can read stories, not paywlled.

[aimhigh]

Here is an article establishing that the Texas children didn’t die from measles, but from other simultaneous conditions. https://www.malone.news/p/breaking-news-another-texas-child?fbclid=IwY2xjawJifE9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHg_WQ4dCwxNwB5ptftmj_yJjHiHNqiP_0OqzZf4lSrmaUL6pfOQuQ091E2WO_aem_0TpwswUioOa50mLxHm__sw

[RetiredTexasVet]

Note that if the patient does not remember or cannot produce a vaccine card for an mmr shot, they are refered to as not being vacinated. Additionally, they don’t count or publisize those that catch measles that have been vaccinated. If the vaccinations were/are effective the infections would have stopped after the last unvaccinated person was infected. Most of the resistence to the mmr vaccine and other vaccines are in the preservatives and clumping of the shots all at once with no intervals in between which could magnify the adverse results of the preservatives in the vaccines (aluminum/mercury/etc.)

[mass55th]

There were no such things as measles, chickenpox and mumps vaccines when I was a kid in the Dark Ages.