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Kennedy (Kennedy) visiting Samoa in 2019 (Samoa Be effective Measles vaccine-because his trip was devastating a few months ago Measles explosion This took 83 people's lives, many of them were young children.

"This is very sad," Dr. Naseri, the head of Samoa Health, told Colombia Broadcasting News. "This is one of the things you don't want to visit again."

Kennedy Persisted that he had nothing to do with the Samoians who resisted the vaccine.

He said in an interview with the documentary producer Scott Hamilton Kennedy, "I have nothing to do with someone who is not vaccinated in Samoa." "I have never told anyone that no vaccine is vaccinated."

But some KennedyCritics asserted that he assumed the responsibility of the outbreak and used tragedy to promote the false proposition of the vaccine. Democrats caught this episode and even sponsored advertisements to call him to visit.

What happened to Samoa?

A few years ago in Kennedy's training in Samoa vaccine, the vaccination rate of this small Pacific island country (SAMOA) was low. Medical professionals attribute it to the shortage of doctors and nurses and the population change. More and more people move to the city and stay away from the social structure that helps to promote children's vaccination. By 2017, only about half of the 1 -year -old Samoa had a complete vaccination, which was far lower than the coverage of 95 % of the need to prevent the spread of the community. According to reports, it was reported that it reached 90 %, the earlier rate decreased.

This situation has changed tragic in July 2018. At that time, the two nurses wrongly combined the expired muscle relaxant with the dose of MMR vaccine instead of sterile water, causing the two children to die. The nurse was charged with the crime of losing killing, and the government responded for 10 months by suspending the national vaccination plan. Children's vaccination rate drops to 31 %.

Former Samoa Health, Naseli, told Colombia Broadcasting News (CBS News) that the government has been working hard to implement effective vaccine plans. He said the improper vaccine and its tragic consequences were "the last straw."

"This is even more hesitant."

The dislike of the vaccine is scattered on the island like a virus. At that time, even the Prime Minister issued a statement about Facebook, saying that his grandson had been injured by vaccine. The temporary suspension of vaccine is corresponding to the distrust of modern medicine.

A mother said to the local reporter at the time: "I would rather treat them at home with old -fashioned herbs, nor did they want to take them to see a doctor." "Because children die from these vaccines, I don't believe in any medicine in the hospital."

Patricia Stinchfield is the nurse and former chairman of the National Infectious Disease Foundation. He said that even before the outbreak of the measles, she had been monitoring the Samoa vaccine crisis. She said that the immune vaccination rate decreased so low, the situation was "ticking time bomb".

Stattifield said it was in the "perfect storm" that Kennedy arrived in Samoa in the summer of 2019. Kennedy said that the purpose of his visit was to propose a healthy surveillance system. The suspension of vaccination in 2018 was an opportunity for a natural study that did not take over. His travel is coordinated by local anti -vaccine advocates and is famous for online transmission of medical errors.

Dr. Naseri told CBS news that he met with Kennedy briefly, but their conversations were concentrated on environmental and vaccine safety issues.

In August 2019, two months after visiting Kenndy, an infected traveler from New Zealand arrived in Samoa, and the fatal measles virus began to spread. The government officially announced the outbreak on October 16, and one month later, it was announced in an emergency.

Until the beginning of December, the Samoa government acknowledged that its immunization was improper and launched an radical vaccination movement to make the shooting mandatory. Dr. Naseri said that the delayed response could lead to high infection and mortality. But in the end, the country was closed for two days to allow health workers to vaccinate at home and quickly obtain 90 % of the coverage.

Hundreds of medical professionals from all over the world responded and went to Samoa to help vaccine.

Nasuri said: "The government needs political willingness, and the international community supports us."

The news of Columbia Broadcasting Corporation visited Samoa in this response and met a parent named Paulo Puelua. He said that the measles erupted and caught his family instantly, Three of the five children who kill himEssence Their mother Fa'OSO was very upset that she had been sleeping on her child's grave. According to the tradition of Samoa, she was established in the family's front yard. She told Colombia Broadcasting News that she thought this was the only way she was close to them now.

Looking back at the past, officials told CBS News that they believed that the number of high deaths in the outbreak was caused by various factors, including extensive malnutrition, dependence on traditional medicine and overwhelmed medical care systems. In rural Samoa, many families share a single sleep space, making it easier to spread. Nearly a quarter of the population lives in poverty, making treatment more complicated.

Controversy about RFK Jr. characters

Dr. Paul Offit is a vaccine expert and common patient with a rotary virus vaccine. He is also the director of the Vaccine Education Center of the Philadelphia Children's Hospital. He has always been the critic of Kennedy, and believes that the nomination of the Minister of Health is a severe judgment against the development of the outbreak.

Offit said Kennedy had released two deaths before he could understand what happened and accused the MMR vaccine. This is not the case, and Kennedy did not correct such an error.

"If he is not anyone, it is not him, he should return to Samoa and apologize to every family where each child dies." "He is a famous person, go there and meet with anti -vaccine activists He went there to give them credibility. "

The news of Columbia Broadcasting Corporation contacted Kennedy through his leadership organization. Until last month, children's health defense and did not receive a reply. The organization had previously denied that his visit played any role in the outbreak.

During the interview, Samoian health officials told CBS News that they believed that Kennedy's behavior was unlikely to directly affect what happened.

In a statement, the Samoa Department of Health said: "According to reports, RFK JNR's visit to Samoa in 2019 coincides with the increase in anti -vaccine emotions, especially in some groups." " It shows that his access directly leads to a decline in vaccination rate or subsequent measles outbreak. "

However, in the case of an emergency on the island, Kennedy sent a letter to Prime Minister Samoa, suggesting that the defective vaccine may be the cause of infection-this theory has been revealed.

Kennedy wrote in the letter on November 19, 2019: "It is important that the Samoian Ministry of Health determines whether the epidemic is caused by the vaccine with insufficient vaccine or a defective vaccine." Kennedy (Kennedy (Kennedy ( ) The letter part depends on an idea. The idea seems to originate from the idea of ​​measles on social media in 2014-2015 on social media. The outbreak is inaccurate that the measles of the vaccine have been determined.

Stinchfield said that this is based on the weakness of the virus in the vaccine. In a very rare case, people may have symptoms similar to measles, but there are never any cases to prove that measles are scattered.

After the infection of Samoa, the critic said that Kennedy faded the severity of the outbreak in the blog post and continued to suggest that the vaccine itself was the cause of the high mortality. He, he promoted the outbreak of conspiracy with the famous anti -vaccine activist and Del Bigtree of Kennedy Ally.

Stin Qifield said they still have no evidence to support. In the end, the Samoa government stopped listening.

Since then, Samoa has reached a high vaccine vaccination rate. The World Health Organization has said that since 2020, the country has no measles cases. but, Vaccine hesitant It is still a challenge worldwide, and anti -vaccine activists continue to spread Fear and error informationEssence

The Ministry of Health of Samoa said it was still worried that "the global spread of vaccine error information and the potential consequences of the influence of the RFK JNR, especially if he played a leader in public health policy. The country's vaccine can prevent the outbreak of disease and reverse the decades of progress of immune work. "

Stattifield said she believed that Kennedy and others in Samoa and the error information spread in the years since then was still very dangerous.

She said: "Their crime method is to adopt the core of a little truth, then rotate and confuse people, and rotate when the fear is high." "" "