{"id":8984,"date":"2025-03-18T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2025-03-18T18:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T23:25:10","slug":"rfk-jr-falsely-claims-measles-vax-causes-deaths-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/18\/rfk-jr-falsely-claims-measles-vax-causes-deaths-every-year\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Falsely Claims Measles Vax Causes Deaths &#8216;Every Year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/vaccines\/114662\">MedPage Today<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In this&nbsp;<\/em>MedPage Today<em>&nbsp;video, Paul Offit, MD, of Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of FDA&#8217;s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, responds to claims about measles and vaccines made by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in recent interviews.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-18-at-19.23.49-1024x551.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-18-at-19.23.49-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-18-at-19.23.49-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-18-at-19.23.49-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-18-at-19.23.49-1536x827.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-18-at-19.23.49.png 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The following is a transcript of their remarks:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kennedy [clip]:&nbsp;<\/strong>There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause, encephalitis and blindness, etc., and so people ought to be able to make that choice for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/vaccines\/114662\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"OTuNzERa   UtR  MXiIYceiRN\">OTuNzERa   UtR  MXiIYceiRN<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPage Today In this&nbsp;MedPage Today&nbsp;video, Paul Offit, MD, of Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of FDA&#8217;s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, responds to claims about measles and vaccines made by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in recent interviews. The following is a transcript of their remarks: Kennedy [clip]:&nbsp;There are adverse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8986,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions\/8986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}