It was a spasm of the tragedy on the island of a remote Mediterranean, which was shaded only a few months later by global pandemic diseases. But Hawaii Government Josh Green, the spread of measles on the neighboring Samova, which killed 83 people, most children and children, was the one who now wants to advance US health policy through President Trump.
In December 2019, Dr. Green, an emergency medical physician and then the Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii developed thousands of medical teams and thousands of vaccine doses and flew to Samua for help. Last month, he flew to Washington, which aims to be aware of the role of Robert F. Kennedy Junior, Mr. Trump’s nominee for the health and human services secretary and the long -term vaccine suspicious role. It was to be played, which was played in the spread of Samua.
Mr Kennedy’s confirmation hearings are in front of two Senate committees on Wednesday and Thursday, which will then vote on whether their nominations advance in the Senate.
Democrats are Attempt to take advantage of Mr Kennedy’s relationship with the spread of Samua to oppose his nomination. Dr. Green recently Appeared in an ad Through a Liberal Advisory Group, the 314 action states, “RF’s junior spread so much misinformation that the country had stopped vaccination, and this led to the tragic and deadly spread of measles. “
In an interview on Monday, Dr. Green said that on the basis of his conversation so far, if the Senate’s full vote was anonymously, “RF’s junior would be defeated 70-30 or even worse. “” At the same time, he said, “There is a lot of pressure on everyone to go with the president at the political climate, or it will be called disrespect.”
A spokesman for Mr Kennedy did not respond to the commentary requests on Tuesday. In the past, he has accused the measles, mamps and the rubella vaccine, “an Indian manufactured MMR vaccine” of the spread of Samua’s measles.
Dr. Green, 54, arrived in Hawaii as a young physician with the National Health Service Corps in 2000, and was often the only only doctor to serve small rural communities on the larger island of Hawaii. After being elected to the state legislature in 2012, he took care of patients in the weekend. After being elected governor in 2022, he was stopped from outside job, but says he volunteered as a “Street Medicine” practitioner volunteer to unnecessary experienced and other people in need of health care Offers
The roots of Samua’s outbreak were in a tragic mistake. In 2018, nurses producing MMR vaccine mixed the food comfortably instead of water. Stained shots led to the death of two children and eliminated parents’ fears about the safety of vaccines.
Vaccinations often incorrectly connect childhood vaccines to autism, and after this incident, the Prime Minister of Samua, whose grandson is autoimized, is stopped by the island’s vaccination program.
As a result of death and ban, less than one -third of Samua’s 1 -year -old children received an MMR vaccine in 2018, which is more than 90 % in 2013. World Health Organization. Infection increased.
Children’s Health Defense – A group headed by Mr Kennedy that in 2022 was banned from Facebook and Instagram for a time that the platform had a spread of medical misconduct for what he said. .
Mr Kennedy and his friend Dale Bigter, who are also skeptical of vaccines, have a large, international online following, and they use the deaths of these two children to clarify their message about vaccine risks. What Mr Bigri later served as the Chief of Communications for Mr Kennedy’s presidential campaign.
Dr. Green said that as an American is a famous name and a powerful network that promoted parents’ fears in Samua, Mr Kennedy “victimized people who were weak.”
In June of 2019, Mr Kennedy and his wife, actress Shrill Haus, traveled to Samua at the invitation of the Prime Minister, who treated the couple like a visit to royalty. “My husband wants to move here.”
During the visit, Mr Kennedy posted a photo with a coconut farmer, Edwin Tamasi, called “Medical Freedom Hero”. Mr Kennedy later wrote on the Children’s Health Defense website that the trip was organized by Mr Tamsi, who Was arrested After months, to spread the vaccine’s misinformation and promote the treatment of ineffective measles such as vitamins and papaya leaves.
Mr. Kennedy too Said on the website He visited Samua because the health official and the prime minister “was interested in measuring health results after the ‘natural experience’ created by national delay from vaccines.” Mr Kennedy said he was offering his help to build a tracking system.
He later denied that he had been in Samua to advance his views on vaccines. In an interview of 2021 “shot in the arm,” A documentary about vaccine hesitating And Covade 19 pandemic diseases, Mr Kennedy, told the filmmaker, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, who has no relationship, “I didn’t go to Samo to do anything with this problem.”)
The measles is extremely contagious, and by the end of 2019, the number of new infections in Samoa was doubled every week. First child Died on October 13. A month later, with the complexities of the measles, 16 people were killed, the government declared a national emergency and declared MMR shots mandatory. Four days later, Mr Kennedy sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Samua, urging the Samvan Ministry of Health to “scientifically, if the outbreak was caused by inadequate coverage of the vaccine or alternatively. , Through a defective vaccine. “
In the beginning of December, with More than 3,700 new cases And more than 50 dead, samua The Minister of Communications said The anti -vaccination conspiracy theorists were “slowing us down” in an attempt to vaccinate people.
Dr. Green contacted Samova’s Minister of Health, Familotova Kea Stores. Can he bring a team to a vaccination mission? Ms. Stores offered to the Prime Minister, who “offered to close the country” in the face of a growing death toll to help the air team work, Dr. Green called back in an interview Û”
Within 48 hours, Dr. Green reserved volunteers, air travel from donors and 50,000 dose from UNICEF.
His team landed on December 4 at 5:30 am in Samua and entered the countryside with several hundred Samovan volunteers. Residents were hanging red flags or cloth scraps outside their homes if they need a vaccine.
Dr. Green remembered a visit to a house where a child recently died that his skin was still flawed. “I felt the heat of leaving a baby’s body after I died in the spread of a rescue measles,” he said.
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