Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, WHO and the CDC said. About 107,500 people, mostly young children, died — an “unacceptable” death toll from a disease that’s preventable through vaccination, the health groups said.
bUt aRE vAcCiNeS eFFeCTivE????
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Honestly, if parents are stupid enoigh to not get their kid vaccinated they deserve to lose their child.
RFK jr ladies and gentlemen
Antivaxxers are brainless and uncaring, imo
Guess what cnn did , just help elect the guy who will make this problem 10 times worse. You guys can’t go back to being a “ real “ news organization with the bullshit that happened
U.S. Cases in 2024: Total cases 277 -CDC can't wait for rfk to make magats regret voting for trump.
Oh poppycock! I don't believe that we have anything to worry about with RFK Jr in control. Vaccinations don't work and cause other problems. For instance he was vaccinated against "brain worms" and look at him!
Funny... Elon Musk who is constantly promoting increasing the birth rate to save humanity, hasn't come out in support of vaccines. Perhaps he erroneously believes his autism was caused by vaccines? He could make a big difference internationally if he did speak out.
RFK will get these numbers up in the US don’t worry.
What a stupid time we live in! Vaccines readily available to prevent this disease yet we have a rising number of anti-science idiots forgoing the inoculations for their kids. Child abuse?
Good thing Trumps gonna put RFK in charge of vaccines. That will lower deaths, right?
If these parents weren’t into avoiding the vaccinations for their children, these once eradicated diseases wouldn’t be making a comeback. Now everyone has to suffer b/c of your anti-healthcare choices????
I remember when my pediatrician told me how contagious measles are. A person infected with measles is in a car with windows down they infect everyone the car passes on the street.
Thank you RFK and other vaccine deniers.
Should've known this post would surface the antivax crowd here on Bluesky, leading to my first block on this site.
Me too. I was hoping the anti C21st brigade would stay in the Other Place.
We can block with abandon. At least blocking means something here.
Trump takes one look at this headline and screams “hold my beer” and then appts RFK jnr as Health Secretary “My numbers will be huge, the biggest..”
I know what will help! Let's put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of healthcare! 🙄
Don't worry RFK Jr will handle with some organic food!!!!!
Anti-vaccine propaganda costs lives.
Congratulations anti-vaxxers!
I hate this fkcing ignorant a**holes 😤
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It’s ok. We have RFK Jr. to protect us….. oh wait.
If RFK jr gets his way those numbers will get higher…
Will the drug companies profit from this? When shareholder value is the top priority, it creates a clear conflict of interest.
The medically uneducated are combining their ignorance and messaging hubris to create a world where disease will kill them and their children/grandchildren. This does NOT make America “great”. It makes it insufferable and unsafe to live here.
But disease killing them and their children/grandchildren would make America Greater! We stay safe, take our vaccines, follow proper science, and just let uncle Darwin and aunt Karma work.
given how much free publicity you gave to trump how much child death is acceptable to you?
The anti-vaxxers sure showed us! Unnecessary deaths.
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Thanks to vaccine disinformation, parents are putting the lives of their children at risk.
Meanwhile, all the antivaxx parents were vaccinated as children.
RFK went on to say, "The impact of food on staving off hunger is a deep state myth. A combination of ivermectin and prayers will solve world hunger."
Ya can't fix stupid... but Mother Nature can.
I hear ya. But Mother Nature ain't reluctant to break a few eggs to make an omelet. In other words, if she's gonna fix stupid; she ain't too shy to take down a few million smart people either. That's what scares me. Get your vaccine shots!
RFK Jr: "Hold my beer..."
Something I would normally have shared on FB and asked people WTH they are doing. Now I read it and shrug my shoulders and ask myself - what did people expect would happen. So sad to become part of a country getting dumber by the minute
Thanks to right wing/Russian propaganda. How about you report on that!
RFK Jr will help spread disease in the US as he forces anti-vax propaganda across the US.
That number will be double in a year.
This is really fucking sad. No doubt RFK and other pseudo-scientists contributed to this. People PLEASE vaccinate your children!!
And here we go, down the tubes health wise. apple.news/AQZ2oG__AQ0m...
Make polio great again
With RFK anywhere near Health and Human Services, in the role of Secretary, MILLIONS will DIE. Make NO mistake about that. It's lunancy to think a 70 year old man with his history is up to the job. It's a REAL job, people. He is, like Toddler DON the CON, patently UNFIT RECOUNT! Stop WH OCCUPATION
Well, let's look at the bright side... And let's be fair about this here... Those kids that aren't getting the measles vaccine aren't getting it because their parents are literally idiots... The kids dying are the children of idiots... It's an unpopular opinion, I know, but I don't really care..
The incoming Trump administration must be positively giddy. The Death Cult wants to welcome smallpox and polio to our shores, too.
So, let me see if I've got this straight. Generation's of leaders in the DOJ, FBI,CIA,NSA, and other agencies are going to stand by without any effort to curb, or at the very least, show some sort of sense of duty to this country and end this shit show? Is that about right? WTAF? 🤔
You reap what you sow, and there's been plenty of anti-intellectual misinformation being sown about vaccines
Small pox and polio will be knocking on the door next. RFK is inviting a medical catastrophe
Republicans are making childhood diseases great again. Anti vax, anti science, anti democracy propaganda is deadly for children. 😥
The affluent will vax their kids. RFK Jrs grands are/will be vaxed. How long after they aren’t required will insurance stop covering vaccines? How long will we have the AHCA?
Of course, look how many took the Covid vaccination while simultaneously calling it a hoax.
They did indeed!
I contracted measles as a young child before vaccines were available and was about the sickest I've been in my very long life. The doctor came to our house, and I can still see my my mother wringing her hands in despair as he examined me. I don't understand declining vaccines.
This has to be trump’s fault!!
Meanwhile the sociopathic serial rapist convicted felon nominate an anti vax idiot. 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🙄
Perfect timing for measles to make its big comeback—thankfully, we’ve got the anti-vax guy running health to cheer it on!
Crazy stuff
RFKjr looking at those numbers: "I can beat that."
well... Not in Brazil! Live long, SUS!
I feel for the children, but totally parents responsibility. Parents should be made to pay for all medical expenses caused by their decision as well.
CNN platforms folks who contribute to vaccine skepticism...then runs articles about prevention through vaccines. The Onion has competition!
This is awful, but not unexpected.
So sad we have to deal with 19th century problems in 2024.
That’s ok. RFK Jr. will take this away and boom, we are back into plague mode.
And we’re dealing w RFKJ. Perfect.
Survival of the fittest
Global measles cases are on the rise, in spite of the widespread availability of a life-saving vaccine. It’s an ominous reflection of waning vaccine confidence, according to experts.
This is truly tragic. At one time measles was eradicated, at least in the United States.
Yes it's alarming
Ironically there likely shall be fewer people on the Autistic Spectrum, because if they confirm RFK Jr and then he is able to stop vaccination there'll be fewer people surviving childhood so...
I know. It’s insanity!!
Thanks Covid with your anti-vaxxers… it was your time to shine and here is your reward 🙄
Can’t wait until we have an anti vaxer at the helm of US health. 😹😹😂
Trump’s putting in wacky Kennedy. So this should get worse. He doesn’t believe in vaccines. He’s an attorney that knows nothing about anything. Neither does Trump. Jesus Christ! He had brain worm for how long?
The Trump admin will tell you it’s the immigrants, when there is an entire generation of anti-vaxxers that believe they are mind control drugs or cause certain neurological disorders. Where’s the science?
I’m sure RFK Jr will fix it!
Have no fear, RFK is here 🙄
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We are living through the most stupid times.
Per RFK Jr: expect more of this
This whole anti vax situation was something i talked about with my wife 10 years ago it unfortunately turned out to be worse than i had predicted
This is only going to get worse with vaccine misinformation so prevalent here in the US.
Should be a lot worse with the idiot anti vax they are putting charge of health. He should be the secretary of funerals
Gosh. Could it be that CNN is carrying the words of anti-vaccination demagogues without context or criticism simply because it's "newsworthy"? Could that be part of the rise of antivaxx sentiment?
And RFK jr now taking decisions ? Will be 4 funny years...half of Americans deserve what will come but the other half don't
RFK Jr doesn't care about dead kids. Just ask the people of Samoa.
If only the qorlds government and scientists didn't spend years destroying the trust of the people with bullshit. This could've all been avoided.
His father and uncle are probably rolling over in their graves. What a disgrace!
Oh, just wait. With the loon in charge, our country will be a shit hole in a New York minute.
Over 107,000 people died from measles; a disease that is easily preventable through vaccination. A 20% increase in global cases when we have a proven vaccine at our fingertips. Absolute madness! @chrischirp.bsky.social
Just getting started with rfk at the wheel
WHO? You just undermined your whole article.
USA will be next as RFK withholds vaccines
Great timing
Watch this climb in the US with Bobby in charge of health.
Science matters, science saves lives.
