RFK Jr. saw opportunities in the crisis of the Samo Linemi vaccine

But parents were not in a hurry. Edwin Tamasese is a sustainable peasant and entrepreneur. He represents their skepticism and is famous for his representative figures of Samoa vaccine resistance. Tamses is generally criticized for Western medicine. Diseases that cannot be treated by the immune system can be treated with vitamin A and C. For more serious diseases, he switched to herbs, such as papaya leaves from his own farm. He shared these ideas and other ideas on Facebook, as well as anti -vaccine content, including children's health defense organizations and videos about vaccine danger. Tamseas had a dispute with American users on the page of supporting vaccines, but he was far from a major influence -until two babies died.

“The vaccine of my small country has recently become the theme of some international media, so I conducted a deeper research on this,” he posted on the Facebook forum in 2018 and attached a photo of his 6 months. In addition to the hepatitis B vaccine injected at the time of her birth, the old daughter's vaccination record was nothing. He said he wanted to prevent this vaccine. “Have we missed the opportunity to explore a safer and more effective vaccine alternative?”

In April of the following year, Tagascei participated in a professional exchange project organized by the State Department of the United States and met with Malialihi, then Prime Minister Samoa at a government event. Mali Lerigy replied to the question through emails this month. According to him, Tamses talked to him about the protection of children's health and proposed that Kennedy could come to Samoa to discuss the idea of ​​”deeper issues related to vaccines”. It is unclear whether Tamshasseus or how to know Kennedy at the time.

Kennedy was invited. On June 1, he and his wife and actor Sheriel Heins attended the official independent day celebration. The remaining part of the Xiangnedi is not very public. The photos posted on his Instagram account at the time showed that Kennedy visited the church, played with a group of children on the beach, and captured the starfish in the sea.

According to Minister of Health Nassel, government officials arranged a dinner for Kennedy in a resort. Nassel said he had a brief conversation with Kennedy there, and Kennedy agreed to his point of view that the vaccine was not safe. Nassel said that he told Kennedy that the vaccine solved most of the country's infectious diseases. “We don't want to stop this.”

Kennedy is not alone During dinner. He brought Dr. Michael Gravin, the new chief information officer of the Child Health Protection Organization. He is a highly praised newborn scientist who is known for creating and improving the health status of the world's poverty -stricken country.

In 2012, Greg wrote a letter with people, advocating the establishment of a comprehensive health system to better evaluate the effects of vaccine, adverse events and safety monitoring.

In 2019, Greg is analyzing a research data, which will be studied by two famous anti-vacciners, scientists James Lyons-Weiler and Oregon pediatrician Paul · Pose Paul Thomas, the latter's license will be revoked in the same year -in some reason that his failure is fully vaccinated by the patient -and then voluntarily give up after two years.

By comparing the health results of Thomas patients, the study concluded that in his clinic, children who have not vaccinated vaccines are healthier than children who vaccinated vaccines. One year later, after a survey “proposed some methodological issues and confirmed that the conclusion did not receive strong scientific data support”, the report was withdrawn.

Like Thomas and other vaccine suspects, Kennedy completely rejected scientific research that showed the safety of children's vaccine. On the contrary, he accepted an unscientific theory, that is, certain ingredients or mechanisms in children's vaccines must be the culprit of chronic diseases (from allergies to autism).

Kennedy published a book “Vax-UNVAX: Let Science Talk” about the theme in 2023. In the book, he believes that the child who vaccinated vaccines is poor than the health of children who have not vaccinated vaccines. The year of the year) has been criticized by scientists' criticism methods or withdrawn from some cases.

It is unclear how Gravin, who died in 2022, to meet the children's health security organization, and it is not clear why he left in just one year. According to his widow, his brother, and colleagues who were interviewed by NBC news, he did not oppose the vaccine. His brother Kendall Graven is also a doctor. He said Greg hopes to let Kennedy understand how data is often misunderstood by anti -vaccine supporters. KFwn said that Kennedy “despite Mike's efforts, the concept of safety vaccine is only a mild open attitude.” He added, “He did not discuss the Samoa disaster with us, but just said that this is a tragedy that can prevent the vaccine.”

Children's health defense organizations did not establish a health information system for Samoa in the end. Former Prime Minister Marielegi said he did not shake from Kennedy's interview. “I'm not interested in him -he is not a doctor,” he told NBC news. “Our medical experts are more credible for me.”

Mary Holland, chairman of the Child Health Protection Organization, rejected the interview request. She answered a series of questions and attached a link to an article that raised the news report on news reports, which blamed Samoa's vaccine coverage on Kennedy.

Tamses refused to be interviewed in this article. He posted on Facebook that the NBC news “obviously distort everything I said and try to prevent RFKJ from entering the National Institute of Health.” Tamses said in a private message private message that Nasari rejected the data system provided by the children's health defense organization. Nassel said he didn't remember such a proposal.

“I think there are some institutional resistance,” Kennedy told the Samoa Observer in 2021. “The measles epidemic happened, and everything in Samoa was closed.”

The first case A measles case was reported in September 2019, which may be brought by a passenger on a flight from Auckland, New Zealand to Auckland, New Zealand. In October, the epidemic officially broke out and entered a national emergency in November. Samoa closed the school, prohibited children from entering public places, and fixed or prevented or prevented people from vaccination as illegal. The red flag outside the house shows that there are children in the house that need to be vaccinated. Samoa officials said most of the death cases were caused by children who have not vaccinated.

On November 19, when the number of deaths was close to 20, Kennedy wrote a letter to Malley Leii, which implied that the crisis was not caused by the low vaccination rate of vaccine, but a variety of possibilities. As a result, children including invalid or defective vaccines and new vaccine children “get rid of” vaccination. The virus is transmitted to those who have not vaccinated.