Neil Stone
@DrNeilStone
Infectious Diseases doctor. Clinician-scientist. Officially the 1st person to use word COVID. Strictly my personal views only.
Joined October 2017
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In 2019 RFK Jr went to Samoa and helped whip up antivaccine sentiment
A massive measles outbreak followed
This man is not fit to be anywhere near being a Health Secretary
In 2019, measles swept through Samoa, infecting 5,707 people and killing 83—most of them young children.
Did RFK Jr. contribute to the magnitude of that catastrophe?
Newly disclosed correspondence tells us considerably more about why he went to Samoa and what he hoped to do there.
But answering the larger question requires separating documented conduct, epidemiologic evidence and causal inference.
A carefully sourced thread. 🧵
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