Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He met with the families of two girls who had died of measles in West Texas and raised doubts about the safety of vaccines. “He said,” You no longer know what is in the vaccine, “said Peter Hildebrand, the 8 -year -old daughter, Daisy’s, the funeral that had been held a few hours earlier.” I actually asked him about it. “
The Secretary of Health and Human Services had traveled to the small and remote city of Seminole, where 1,000 Daisy pains filled the wooden pews of an unmarked menonite church. After service, coffee and homemade bread were served in a traditional meeting known as panp. Kennedy was there, wrote to X that afternoon, to “comfort families and be with the community at his time.”
The slow road crisis, in which more than 600 people have been infected with measles and three have died – the first death of America from a decade has left Kennedy in an uncomfortable position. For many years, he has been the most prominent anti-focus activist in the country. The North -Americans “have been deceived by the pharmaceutical industry and its governmental allies captured to believe that measles is a fatal disease and that the measles vaccines are necessary, secure and effective,” he wrote in a prologue to a book in 2021. However, since he took office, he has moderated his tone, sometimes endorsing the importance of public health. In its public publication of Seminole, Kennedy did it once again, describing the efforts of his department to supply pharmacies and clinics of Texas with “necessary MMR vaccines”, which he called “the most effective way to prevent measles’ spread.”
However, there is a great reason to believe that Kennedy has not really changed his opinions: “I have worked with Bobby for many years and I can surely say that he has a heart incapable of commitment,” said Bigree, the communications director of the independent presidential campaign of Kennedy, in X, in an effort to reassure some angry and confused fans. “It is on a poker table with the most bleeding snakes in the world,” he added; “We should not ask him to show his letters.” (Bigree also called the MMR vaccine “one of the most effective ways of causing autism”, despite the study after the study rejected the link.)
“He never said anything about the vaccine that is used,” Hildebrand told me. He did not want to delve deeper into his conversation with Kennedy, saying that he had been warned (he did not say for whom) of not making a public comment. But it seemed to see the Secretary’s statement as a confirmation that the MMR vaccine is unreliable. Despite the death of his daughter, he stated that the children of another member of his family, vaccinated, were still sick in the recent outbreak, which two of their own children who had achieved measles and recovered. “So the vaccine is not shit,” he said. A spokesman for health and human services would not confirm what Kennedy had told Hildebrand. “Secretary Kennedy is not anti-vacuna, it is security pro,” the spokesman wrote by email. “He has made it clear.”
Among the skeptics of the vaccine, the death of Daisy Hildebrand, such as the previous death of Kayley Fehr, 6, is reinforced as a result of a tragic and little medical error. The defense of the health of the children, the non-profit Kennedy, has promoted the theory that Fehr was not given the correct antibiotic for pneumonia soon enough to save his life, which is apparently based on this judgment in the medical records that the FEHRS provided to the organization. The Children’s Hospital of the Pact, where Fehr was treated, has called these statements “misleading and inaccurate”, while noting that the patient’s confidentiality laws prevent the hospital from entering detail about the girl’s treatment. Robert Malone, a former doctor and a saver, and misinformation, on Covid-19 vaccines, published in his substitute that Daisy’s death was “a case of a child suffering from pre-existing conditions who were mistakenly diagnosed.” (Texas’s Department of Health says the girl “had no underlying condition”)
Hildebrand also blames the deaths doctors. “I am willing to do it and everything I can to make sure the hospitals begin to have some” correct act “so that no one else has to go through it,” he said. “They were almost murdered.” In the case of her daughter, she believes that the hospital should have given her Budesonida, a steroid often prescribed in asthma, among other conditions, which she has been considered by Kennedy to treat measles. “He was not given the Bofesonide breathing treatment we had asked for,” Hildebrand said. “They said that the steroids IV gave to him were better.” A spokesman for Lubbock University Medical Center did not respond to a comment request.
According to Michael Mina, a doctor and a measles immunologist, Budesonide is not a first -line treatment for measles. “The use of Budesonide to try to treat measles simply does not make sense, biologically or mechanically,” Mina told me. “When it may make sense, it is to treat a coinfection that occurs in conjunction with measles, but that is far from a measles therapy. This is not a thing that we should treat measles with.” Mina added that it is “much better to prevent measles first through vaccination”.
Hildebrand said that before taking Daisy to the hospital, his family received advice on his care, among others, Ben Edwards and Richard Bartlett, two West Texas doctors, which Kennedy praised as “extraordinary healer” who treated patients with a seminol. Edwards and Bartlett are shown in a photo that Kennedy posted from his meeting with the two families, which took place after the funeral at a steak dinner at the West Texas Living Heritage Museum in Seminole. Like Kennedy, Edwards has raised doubts about the safety of the MMR vaccine and, on the other hand, has promoted treatments such as cod oil, which is high in vitamins A and D. At any given time, it offered free oil to the cod baker to the seminole residents at an ad hoc clinic next to a cafe.
Hildebrand said his family had been in contact with Bartlett and Edwards. Daisy was given vitamin A. “Everything seemed to work,” he told me. “When it started to need oxygen so badly, we didn’t have the team at home and they didn’t have all the teams in their clinics either, so obviously we had to look for more help in the hospital.” In an email, Edwards denied that Daisy Hildebrand was one of his patients. “No, I didn’t treat it, but I was planning to review medical records to see whether or not the healthcare standard was followed,” he wrote. “As you know, attention antibiotics did not give the first girl to die, who drove [sic] directly to his death. ”Bartlett could not make comments;
Dean Boyer, the funeral director who managed the services for the two girls, was present at the dinner where Kennedy met with Hildebrands and Fehrs. He said he heard the secretary’s conversations with the two parents’ groups. “He never asked timely questions: Are you vaccinated? You’re not? He only told them the pain he had, “Boyer told me.” He even met with the children alone, he only sat down: a “minute of Pawpaw” is what I called “Boyer praised Kennedy to try to keep his visit under the wrapping.
It is true that Kennedy dodged journalists, but of course his journey was not a secret. After dinner, he published a long message on X about the “heat and love” he felt of the community and about how he had “linked to many of these resistant, workers, with resources and lovers of God.” He also shared several photos of himself hugging families, one with a boy in his knee, another with his arm around Hildebrand. While some of Kennedy’s previous comments on the outbreak have seemed shouting – a “ not unusual ”, for example, or suggesting without evidence that Kayley Fehr could have been malnourished, this transmitted the image of a government official who cared for him.
When I spoke to Hildebrand, he said he did not know that the secretary had published photos of his family or that Kennedy had given the full name of Daisy. He said he had not wanted “nothing to the Internet from the beginning”, but did not blame Kennedy. Instead, he directed his anger to journalists. “Most of you are false media and I don’t need my daughter’s name to be shit,” he told me. “I just don’t need anyone to speak negative about my daughter. It’s on the ground.”
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