Reporting Indicates RFK Jr. Directly Intervened To Keep PA Deaths Off CDC Measles Report

from the vanishing-act dept

The measles outbreak, that began in America nearly two years ago, has only increased in velocity. We recently talked about the deaths of two children in Pennsylvania who both died while infected with measles. I’m altering my language slightly here from that original post in which I described those children as having died of measles purely to acknowledge that there are some, including RFK Jr., who are trying to dispute the cause of those deaths. I’m comfortable stating that they died of measles, as are state officials in Pennsylvania, and as are competent local health professionals like Paul Offit. As explained in a previous post, the ruptured spleen that one newborn died from is an expected symptom of measles in newborns. Kennedy is trying to claim that the cause of death is the spleen, as though the measles infection played no role. That’s dumb, and he’s dumb and a liar, but here we are.

Well, when it comes to CDC reporting on the measles outbreak, the dedicated public page for tracking the numbers was last updated the day of this writing, September 4th. The data generally demonstrates just how shit of a job Kennedy and his crackerjack group of assclowns in government are doing in combating the outbreak. Keep in mind that Kennedy has publicly claimed that he’s doing an awesome job in all of this.

Cases? Up with 4 months left in the year.

Total number of hospitalizations? Up with 4 months left in the year.

Deaths? Well…

The page didn’t always read that way. For a brief moment several days ago, the death count simply stood at 2. Why? Because the CDC questioning state reporting on any statistic surrounding a medical outbreak like this is pretty much unheard of. It’s not how this works. And there was no explanation for why that change was made, other than it was done so on orders from newly confirmed CDC Director Erica Schwartz. Schwartz, you should recall, raised many eyebrows during her confirmation hearings when she was asked if she would refuse the influence of RFK Jr. if he wanted her to deviate from science and factual information, as he did with Susan Monarez on the topic of vaccines previously. She avoided the question entirely by stating she didn’t believe Trump or Kennedy would ever try to exert that kind of influence upon her.

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of Schwartz’s testimony came when senators repeatedly asked her what she would do if (or when) she’s put in the same position as Monarez. Schwartz responded as if it hadn’t happened and would never happen. “I do not believe that the president or the secretary would ever do what you just mentioned,” she told Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at one point, prompting him to reply: “Really?”

We can be done with Schwartz entirely at this point. While she entered into her confirmation hearings with a good reputation and the cautious approval of all kinds of national medical groups, it’s clear that her failure to answer the above question is of consequence. That’s because new reporting indicates it was Kennedy himself who told her to keep those two Pennsylvania deaths off the CDC measles report.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still secretly counting two measles deaths that were deleted from the agency’s public measles data—a deletion that occurred at the direct request of anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to two reports released today.

Early today, Reuters reported that Kennedy instructed new CDC director Erica Schwartz to delete the two deaths from the agency’s website. CDC staff had reportedly already reviewed information about the deaths and accepted the characterization that they were measles-related. Still, Schwartz deleted the deaths without objection, insiders told Reuters. According to previous reporting, the two deaths were added and then removed from the CDC’s website within hours on August 30.

Now, I will deign to note that Kennedy has disputed this report. But who really gives a shit, considering that Kennedy has demonstrated a willingness to both fudge the facts when it comes to medical data and that he’s been perfectly happy to lie directly to Congress. If he’ll lie to senators, there’s no doubt he’s willing to lie to you and the rest of the public. I personally have no doubt that this is yet another lie being told by someone with no conscience. And I’ll note that we typically call those people sociopaths.

As I mentioned above, this is not how CDC statistical reporting has traditionally worked. State health officials send the data in, having done their own due diligence, and the CDC reports on the data. In this case, CDC is suddenly disputing the data and claiming that the state hasn’t provided all the documentation needed to associate the deaths with measles. The state, unsurprisingly, is calling bullshit.

In an earlier statement to Ars Technica, HHS said that the two deaths in Pennsylvania “have not been confirmed based on the information currently available to CDC.” A spokesperson did not respond to a follow-up question about what information the CDC was lacking and/or awaiting from the state.

Pennsylvania’s state health department has said that it has provided the CDC with all the required information.

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I’m sure they have. Just as I’m sure that Kennedy is attempting to save face here by pulling this nonsense. Meanwhile, while Kennedy is primarily concerned with his own ego, I’ll remind our dear readers that there are two tiny fucking coffins in the ground from children who died as a result of Kennedy’s incompetence. He’s worried about him, not about you, your children, or your community.

Get his ass out of HHS. Get him out of government. The same goes for Schwartz and any other officials Kennedy has put in place in government. They all must go, as they are poisoned by Kennedy’s mere presence. Burn it all down and let’s start again.

Or else we’ll have more deaths, no matter how the government tries to hide them from view.

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