News of the death of a child-over two decades, the first baby-anti-vaccine workers suffered doubts in the United States for more than decades. Last Friday, on the edition of the Children’s Health Defense Internet Morning Show, the group’s chief scientist, Brian Hooker, reiterated false claims spreading on social media that the child was really ill with RSV and pneumonia, and refused proper treatment at the hospital.
“This is really invasive,” he said. “It feels like a joke again.”
Edwards hosted his podcast in February, hosted by the spread of Texas for about a month.
“By providing unconventional treatment to individuals who look for something other than science -based or evidence -based drugs, this group makes it really difficult to believe that my science is better than its science,” Cook said.
Away from traditional medicine
Edward was traditionally trained at the University of Texas Houtin Medical School and initially opened a small town clinic where he Family followed Medicine.
However, in recent years, he has created a switch to practice out of traditional medicines, to work as a so -called Integrated Practitioner or Functional Medicine Doctor and promote something. Is called “Four pillars of health” as a key to health: nutrition, hydration, movement and peace. Through Its websiteEdwards sell food supplements, blood tests, and $ 35-month membership projects to access their online educational content.
Edwards told NBC News that he was volunteering his time to spread the measles.
During Covid, Edwards Appeared as a specialist In the Texas State Legislature hearing, Where he shared Dusking claims about large -scale injuries and deaths have been caused by vaccines. In 2020, Edwards Said They were ineffective masks.
On the recent podcast episodes, Edwards said that after practicing for many years, he was convinced that vaccine and modern drugs were not responsible for the historical reduction in the deaths of diseases. Instead, he supported other factors in cleanliness, nutrition and lifestyle – factors that played a vital role in the loss of deaths, but do not calculate how vaccines have reduced or eliminated infectious diseases.
On his podcast, he has hosted anti -vaccine influence and workers, including Barbara Lou Fisher National Vaccine Information Center and Holy Of children’s precision defense; Defense Andrew Weekfield, behind the retreating study, the notorious doctor, who incorporates autism from the MMR vaccine. And Recommended Anti -vaccine activist JB Handley and 2016 Anti -Vaccine Film, “Waxed” books.
Community’s point of view
The complete scale of measles outbreak in western Texas has not been caught by official information.
Edwards worked rapidly in the number of cases in the seminal warehouse: about 188 last week. This estimate is based only on symptoms, without any verification test. It is unclear how overlap it is between its estimates and the government numbers of Texas.
The number of hospitals entering hospitals is also surpassing the state’s official count. Hospital spokesman Mardith Kanningham said there were 36 measles cases at the Children’s Hospital in Libyak.
Catreen Wells, director of the Health Department in the Health Department, said his anxiety level about the outbreak is “10.”
“The longer it will continue, the more likely we travel from one community to the other and start spreading to another area,” he said.
