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The United States is experiencing its largest measles outbreak since 2000 – and these Republicans continue to spread misinformation about life-saving vaccines.
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Vaccines and immunization have the power to save lives, but President Trump and his Republican colleagues continue to spread misinformation about measles, autism, vaccine science, and so on.
Many current members of the GOP have said some really stupid things about immunization. Donald Trump echoed the conspiracy theory
that vaccines cause autism.
TRUMP: And we had so many cases, people who work for me just the other day, 2 years old, two and a half years, the child the beautiful child, went to get vaccinated and came back, and a A week later, he had a huge fever, became very sick, he is now autistic.
North Carolina representative Mark Green echoed the same claim denied.
GREEN: Some fear that the increase in autism results from conservatives contained in our vaccines.
Green, a former Trump candidate for Army Secretary, also opposed climate science, LGBTQ rights and its evolution. TX State Representative. Bill Zedler said that measles would not kill people in the United States.
"They mean people are dying of measles. Yes, in third world countries, they die of measles, "said Zedler, shaking his head. "Today, with antibiotics and this kind of products, they do not die in America." – Texas Observer
Measles is a virus. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections. There is no treatment for measles. Zedler went on to say "This is not the Soviet Union, you know."
Arizona State Rep. Kelly Townsend also linked vaccination to communism. OK, Governor Kevin Stitt made this statement on vaccination.
STITT: So, under vaccines, you know I believe in choice. And we have six children, and we do not vaccinate, we do not vaccinate all our children.
Then he came back.
STITT: What I'm learning in politics is that your opponents will try to distort things. But the fact is that I've vaccinated the six of my children. What I said is that vaccinations take place between a parent and his pediatrician.
There are also anti-vaccine supporters left, including Jill Stein and Robert Kennedy Jr., who are neither one nor the other stationed.
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