Dr. Peter Marks testifies throughout a Senate Well being, Training, Labor and Pensions Committee listening to on the federal coronavirus response on Capitol Hill in 2021.
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Dr. Peter Marks testifies throughout a Senate Well being, Training, Labor and Pensions Committee listening to on the federal coronavirus response on Capitol Hill in 2021.
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Measles is a particularly contagious illness. It is also extraordinarily preventable. There is a vaccine. It is extremely efficient.
For many years it has made measles outbreaks within the U.S. comparatively uncommon, and measles deaths rarer nonetheless. However the U.S. has now seen greater than 700 measles instances this yr, and three deaths to date with lively outbreaks throughout six states.
The federal response is beneath scrutiny as a result of Well being and Human Companies Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has made a profession spreading false details about vaccines.
What are this administration’s views on vaccines, and what do they imply for what’s already one of many worst U.S. measles outbreaks this century.
Kennedy publicly promised he would assist vaccines. Dr. Peter Marks, who was pressured out because the nation’s high vaccine regulator says his division is not doing sufficient.
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