Summary
Texas hospitals are treating children with vitamin A poisoning linked to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promotion of the supplement as a measles treatment.
At Covenant Children’s hospital in Lubbock, patients with measles showed abnormal liver function due to excessive vitamin A intake.
Kennedy, the U.S. health secretary, claimed vitamin A dramatically reduces measles mortality. Experts warn his messaging confuses parents and downplays the proven protection of the MMR vaccine.
The U.S. faces its worst measles outbreak in decades, with nearly 500 cases across 21 states and two confirmed deaths.
People need the right to choose what medications they take. I’m sure you wouldn’t want to be forced to take something you didn’t want to take.
Sure sure, but should parent be allowed to forego low-risk, high-efficacy medical advice to the long term detriment of their child’s and other children’s health? Children, who are unable to legally advocate for themselves…
So to everyone who down voted my comment… I take it you would like to be forced to take something you didn’t want to take?
Yes. I would 100% enjoy mandatory vaccinations when those vaccines are standardized, well regulated, and proven to save countless lives. I want to be forced to take the shot, I want the person to my right to be forced, I want the person to my left to be forced.
I want to save people from horrible death and lifelong disability. I want to eradicate diseases.
If the thing has been proven time and time again to be a benefit for the entire society?
Yes.
Only someone clearly deranged and selfish would choose otherwise.
People don’t get the right to endanger our most vulnerable because they are stupid and religious.
I guess I should say stupid or religious but I have a feeling the initial statement is correct.
I agree with your other comment on not trusting insurance agencies though.
Well, when the gov, and medical companies have been known in the past to lie about medical treatments, then every person should have the right to decide for themselves if they want to take a drug / vaccine / treatment / etc. I personally would rather trust my own judgement. If the gov, or a doctor, or drug company really thinks I need to take something, then they need to do their job better to convince me it’s safe.
This statement is the poster child for why letting individuals use their own judgement on scientific data is such a crap idea.
*Changed medical matters to scientific data.
Drug companies shouldn’t be in the equation of telling you what is best for you and your family medically.
That should be left up to doctors.
It’s not up to the experts to bend over backwards to convince you that a medication is safe and beneficial to yourself and to society. If they’ve convinced most of the population, but haven’t convinced you, then maybe you’re the problem. It’s your job to learn to distinguish between trained experts and quacks with an agenda, and listen to the experts, not the quacks.
Why go to the doctors then? Just take whatever pink medicine your best friend/shaman/faith healer recommends and accept your fate. Why after choosing your medication and you and yours get fucked up, you rush to the hospital?
Tough shit plague rat
This would still respect choice while cutting back on the utilization of emergency services covered by insurance companies. It could lead to reduced costs and people who pay into insurance shouldn’t be forced to pay for the negative health outcomes of people who willingly flout preventative health measures. It drives up costs for everyone.
Yeah I get what you are saying, but insurance companies already make decisions for patients regardless of what the patient’s doctor says they need. Insurance companies are not to be trusted with healthcare choices.
You don’t get what I’m saying. Insurance companies aren’t making the choice for consumers. Consumers refuse to take preventative health measures, that is the choice they make. Insurance in turn, refuses to provide coverage to them because they willingly cost them more in the long run. Medicare and Medicaid, what will be left of them, should also refuse to cover them. Let these consumers cover their own healthcare costs.
Well if the people that tell you what to take are the ones that you go to when you are Ill because you didn’t want to listen to them, they should be able to refuse you.