Senate Democratic Leader Chak Shumar (NY), Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Junior, asked to declare a public health emergency for measles, which blames the senior officer of Trump for failing to respond to the rapid revival of the disease.
Shumor accused Kennedy Apparently words to the letter of July 11 “Let us go[ing] Our country outbreaks in the country’s largest measles in 33 years, this country hit a record high -hit cases 25 years after finishing the disease. ,
Shumar said that the beginning of a localized outbreak in Texas has now been “exploded” in a nationwide health crisis with around 1,300 Americans in 38 states.
“To prevent this historical record high proliferation from further spread and save life, you should immediately declare a public health emergency for measles,” Shumor wrote.
The Democratic leader expressed his “deep concern” about the rapid revival of measles across the United States – “response – or in the absence of Kennedy’s” response – or in the absence of it.
He said, “As a secretary under your tattlege, you have reduced the vaccine, nurtured public health, and destroyed the core federal security to protect Americans,” he wrote.
Shumar cited large -scale trimming of federal health care staff, including infectious diseases scientists, “careless and destructive” grants and colds of Kennedy Advisory Committee’s overhaar over vaccination practices,
Kennedy last month All 17 members removed From the Advisory Committee which guides the vaccine policy and recommendations for the disease control and prevention centers.
“As a painful but relevant reminder, you have shut down the pathologists, canceled the research of the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the vaccine hesitant, removed scientists from the country’s top vaccination panel, and snatched over $ 11 billion in federal public health grants – he wrote $ 550 millions from Texas.
He said that 50 vaccine clinics and 21 public health workers lost their jobs in Dallas County alone.
Shumar stated that measles is a highly contagious virus, it can also be stopped and in 2000 after a nationwide campaign, children were finished in 2000 to give children two doses in untied states.
He said, “This is a destruction of your own construction. And when the families hurt and the health departments begged for help, you told the public that it is ‘not uncommon to see measles deaths’. You pushed Vitamin A instead of vaccines,” he said.
And he highlighted that even after being accepted by Kennedy that the MMR vaccine stops measles, he continued to doubt whether the vaccines are associated with autism, something that is called Democrat “a dangerous, long conspiracy principle”.
“Secretary Kennedy, American people require a public health response. Not a political theater. Not a conspiracy. Not silent,” Shumor wrote.
Some Republicans on Capital Hill are coming under more investigation for their votes to confirm Kennedy in February.
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“First, note that RFK has come out and told people that they should be vaccinated so that it is easily harmonious. He is now saying that people should be vaccinated for measles,” Cassidi said.
Sen Thom Tilis (RNC) was asked about his support for Kennedy during a CNN interview with Jake Tapper.
Tilis told CNN: “The main reason I supported Kennedy because Bill Cassidi thought we should see how it plays.”
Cassidi is ready for the election again next year and Tilis recently announced his retirement.
In his letter, Shumar on Friday accused Kennedy of continuing the country’s vaccine programs.
He asked the secretary to declare funding, personnel and other resources to expand resources and limit outbreaks.
Shumor argued that Kennedy continued doubt about vaccine safety, the end of national health grants for the study of vaccine hesitation and the firing of vaccine experts from the CDC has “undoubtedly increased the severity of measles.”
