As measles outbreaks continue to surface, the mainstream media is now using them as a political weapon, attempting to blame our new HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for so-called "anti-vaccine rhetoric." The Wall Street Journal recently ran an opinion piece titled “RFK Jr. as Health Secretary? Look at the Texas Measles Outbreak”, insinuating that his advocacy for vaccine safety is responsible for rising measles cases. This narrative is not only baseless but ignores decades of documented measles vaccine failures—failures that have occurred in highly vaccinated populations all over the world.
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The numbers reflect the latest data available as of Jan. 22 from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System website. Of the 329 reported deaths, 285 were from the U.S., and 44 were from other countries. The average age of those who died was 76.5
As of Jan. 22, 329 deaths -- a subset of 9,845 total adverse events -- had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) following COVID-19 vaccinations. VAERS is the primary mechanism for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before confirmation can be made that an adverse event was linked to a vaccine.
The reports, filed on the VAERS website between Dec. 14, 2020 and Jan. 22, describe outcomes ranging from "foaming at the mouth" to "massive heart attacks" to "did not recover."
According to the Washington Post, as of Jan. 29, 22 million people in the U.S. had received one or both doses of a COVID vaccine. So far, only the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been granted Emergency Use Authorization in the U.S. by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). By the FDA's own definition, the vaccines are still considered experimental until fully licensed.